Tyranny Of The Dark

Yuk, yuk, yuk, yök, perk, yuk!

Ok, so this is a story of a scientist who rescues a young woman from spirits to be all a woman can dream of, a wife and a mother.

The heroine is pretty. That's about it.

The hero... he's an a-hole. He's a pompous ass, racist, sexist... basically prejudiced in every possible manner a man can be.
And he's a gary-stu. Everybody loves him, except the villains, who hate him. By sight.
I mean... we have this young man coming riding in town, he says he's a scientist, and the heroine's mother immediately invites him to her home and asks him for advice on how to deal with her daughter's future. And instead of saying he couldn't possibly, he seriously considers the question. HE HAS KNOWN THE GIRL AND HER MOTHER FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS IF EVEN THAT. The minister of the community comes to visit, and he immediately sees the man as bad news, even though there really isn't anything wrong with him. He's polite, intelligent, and good-looking... but he is the villain. He has known the family for a long time, but the mother trusts this total stranger's opinion more. Why? Beats me. I suppose because the goodness of a person is totally visible, and even such animals as women can smell it.
Ok, so while he is visiting the family, some weird things happen. There's knocking and the light goes down, and things like that. No explanation, but this scientist man doesn't believe in any supernatural stuffs, so he doesn't seem to notice these things either. Later in the book, they have a seance where things fly around without anyone there to touch them, a wine glass materializes on the shelf from a locked cupboard, things are being written on a notepad, a “horn” floats in the air, and voices are heard. “It must be something totally natural and scientific, like telepathy and telekinesis”. Er... what? You believe in telepathy, but not spirits? Of course! Spirits are totally impossible explanation, as no one was able to actually do these things, as everyone in the present was sitting too far away and didn't move, then it must be telekinesis. Doh!
Yeah... stupid me. Oh, and clairvoyance is also a totally scientific, natural ability.

But it doesn't matter at all, because our scientist man doesn't believe in spirits, he forgets all that happened because it really couldn't have happened, so it didn't.

And through the whole book, he is the only one who can save this girl from the insanity and infamy of being a medium means. She has to be saved so that she can marry a respectable man. Our scientist man. Of course. And it's not her kindness, intelligence, fresh spirit, or anything, really, that he loves. It's her beauty. Again and again, when he thinks of her or speaks about her, it's her beauty.