Probably a good book for the time period. Written at the start of the late twentieth century romance revolution (see Dr. Carol Thurston’s book on the subject), this book had elements of early evolution for the genre. From a lens of modernity, this book (to use a scholarly term) blows. The heroine is constantly sexualized, brutalized, endangered, etc. Read TWs before attempting, please. However, there are early elements of second wave feminist thought here, such as the heroine’s refusal to be broken by her circumstances, and beginning to take her life into her own hands. Just not something I’d read for pleasure in this day and age. Glad we killed off the rape scene in mainstream romance novels.