At the beginning of the book Fisher finds that the male lead is generally a dashingly handsome cad, a rogue, but as he becomes captivated by the female lead he reforms his ways to become a faithful husband and committed mate by the end of the story. He goes from cad to dad, taking the reader along for the ride, falling in love vicariously for 180 pages, until they finish and move on to the next book to fall in love yet again.