This might be the worst book I've ever had to typeset.
Usually when a romance novel relies on a "if they would just have a freaking conversation this would all be resolved" plot, there are at least subplots that might hold the reader's interest. Maybe even interesting secondary characters, or a little mystery--or even a good reason that the two main characters aren't talking to each other.
But this book...augh. For starters, it's a pamphlet. I've had to pull every trick to puff the damn thing out to the castoff. Enormous type, big leading, drop folios*, chapters all opening new right. If this book is even 70K words, I'm the queen of Sheba.
The whole thing stinks of an author who was under deadline and pulled an all-nighter. It's full of typos. The characters have repetitive conversations, which are repeated again in the narrative--yes, we get it already, he's afraid of admitting he's in love because he might get hurt! The one or two plot notes--they don't qualify as complications--are straight off Ye Grande Liste of Romance Nobble Cliches.
The dialogue isn't quite on a par with "You must pay the rent!" "I can't pay the rent!" "You must pay the rent!" but it's certainly melodramatic and stupid.
The story pretty much sums up as: Boy loves girl and girl loves boy, but neither tells the other for reasons that are totally juvenile and idiotic. They attend social gatherings, still not telling each other. One or twice they end up in ludicrous situation wherein boy gives girl orgasm and then immediately flees in embarrassment. No complications of any other sort whatsoever occur.
I imagine it will simply end with boy getting over himself--probably because he can't stand the boner one second longer--and that will be that.
ETA1: The story has just gone entirely random, with scenes that don't even connect to each other. THIS IS SO OBVIOUSLY AN UNEDITED FIRST DRAFT.
And as predicted, the hero finally achieves coitus for no apparent reason other than he just can't wait anymore. (Those last four words are a direct quote from the text.)
ETA2: But it did just give me a moment of amusement, when the heroine ended up "waste deep" in the pond. Oh, if only.
*where the page number is at the bottom of the page and the running head at the top. This effectively shortens the page by at least one line.