I loved the women in the story, but the males all gave me a pain. The ML was so fixated on revenge that he acted like a complete cad for most of the story. When they broke up, she didn't cheat on him, she wasn't after his money, she merely said she didn't love him and couldn't marry him. He counted that as a complete betrayal. Dude is SEVENTEEN years older than her and yet he couldn't communicate enough to find out why she refused his proposal? And where in the Bible, Koran, or Buddhist Scriptures does it say that a woman HAS to accept a marriage proposal just because the dude says he loves her? As to the other males, her brother is a parasitic, manipulative loser with no moral fiber, and the ML's cousin is an adulterous horndog who badmouths a woman that he seduced into loving him. My perfect ending would be for Emma and Louisa to take Annabel and raise her themselves, leaving all the men to glory in their testosterone and complete lack of integrity.
Dangerous Rhapsody