Cassidy, the heroine, is (a) extremely stupid and (b) named Cassidy. Braden, the hero, is (a) named Braden and (b) a huge jackass. This is one of those old school romances where the heroine transforms the hero and the world around them by virtue of her simple good nature. Krinard is a good writer so the book was absorbing, but pretty much every element of the story was a cliche, and she never really overcame them. Additionally

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this is the second book I've read by her which relies on mind control combined with the unreliability of memory: a main character realizes that a formative event did not happen the way they remember it happening because someone messed with their mind, and they were so traumatized by the betrayal involved that they misremembered it. This is just an oddly specific problem to have, and it's weird to see it used so often.