[The Man Who Could Never Love] Let’s set aside the ridiculousness of such a title for something in the romance genre, and focus on the description:

Vittorio Ralfino, the Count of Cazlevara, is back in Italy to make a business proposition. He wishes to marry a traditional wife, and Anamaria Viale—sturdy, plain and from a good vintner’s family—perfectly fits his bill.

Romance novels are well-known for making up crazy-sounding place names for their royal characters to govern. If you do a little googling on Cazlevara, you get results for “calavera,” Spanish for “skull”—definitely making the novel more palatable to me, despite the “sturdy” heroine.

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