I enjoyed this book.  I've read reviews on it where some said they were offended by the fact that "a black woman could be sold to a white man".  The story wasn't anything dirty like that.  And, that would be a fair argument if this wasn't a plot that has been used many times by writers with characters being the same race and, no one complained.  So, to those people I say don't read IR books if you're against IR relationships.