I don't usually read contemporary romance, but I love the author's historicals and this was recommended to me. So glad I read it. It was a great read and honestly, for most of the book, it didn't feel like a romance so much as just Liberty's story about overcoming the hardships life threw at her. One of the issues I had was that since we spent so much of the book getting to know Liberty, I feel like we didn't get to know Gage quite as well as I would have liked.