Books like Sweet Lullaby

Jake was a very sweet guy, too sweet for Rebecca. She wasn't a mean person, but very short-sighted, and she took him for granted. I realize that Jake made the decision to marry Rebecca, knowing that she didn't love him, but I still felt that Jake's love for her made him very vulnerable to getting his heart broken because of her immaturity and her unwillingness to let go of her past relationship with the father of her baby. What made it worse was Rebecca's lack of consideration for the fact that he was so deeply in love with her.This left a bad taste in my mouth because I dislike books where one character is so deeply in love and the other character seems almost oblivious. Jake is probably way too beta for Rebecca. I would have liked to see him with a more gentle, less self-absorbed and spoiled heroine. The whole book I felt he was just putting his heart out there to get trampled on and that certainly happened in this book.But since this is a romance, it does have a happy ending, although I finished the book with a lingering sadness knowing that Jake really didn't get loved the way he deserved to be loved. This is a well-written book and it was enjoyable, and a keeper (because it's a vintage, hard to find Lorraine Heath, and a western) but I'm not sure how often I'd read it.