I'm just gonna emphasize again that even if you're not super into this genre, Rose Lerner makes it SO MUCH FUN

"heroine just effortlessly wins over all the other young women in hero's life while he's still back at 'she probably doesn't really like me'" is such a good subtrope

but omg it's about to get SO awkward

CALLED IT

And not a single subsistence poacher was hanged that day \o/