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** Her sister Sansa, after being held captive and abused for a year, is finally going to be taken away by some friendly people to marry a great guy... {{spoiler|Then her captors find out and force her to marry one of them instead, a terribly ugly dwarf. He's actually a decent person, but Sansa isn't mature enough to appreciate his good points.}} And now it's apparently in the process of happening ''again''. Stupid [[Stockholm Syndrome]] [[Genre Blindness]].

* Marcus Clarke's ''For the Term of His Natural Life.'' The entire book consists of nothing but [[From Bad to Worse]] and [[Yank the Dog's Chain]] and is the most relentlessly depressing book ever. Even at the end of the book, where something finally goes right, {{spoiler|not seconds later he and his love interest both drown at sea}}.

* The title character in Charlotte Bronte's ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' finally gets to the altar with her employer/true love Rochester when it is revealed that Rochester is already married to a mad woman he's got locked in the attic, and the wedding is canceled.

* In Charlotte Bronte's claustrophobic ''Villette'', the perpetually unhappy heroine Lucy has fallen in love with and become engaged to fellow-teacher M. Paul, only it is revealed ambiguously in the last few pages that Paul {{spoiler|probably died in a shipwreck before they could be married}}.