A few questions from a newcomer to the genre

[GothicLover]

To evaluate your cover response less deeply: the woman is beautiful, dressed in a beautiful romantic gown, and she is successfully fleeting from danger, suggesting a strong heroine. No one is typically chasing her, but they are perhaps watching at a safe distance from that lighted window. The house/castle is opulent, mysterious, and a place one might wish to explore, but it may be dangerous to do so. The book will allow you to enter it...from a safe distance. The setting is dramatic, often filled with darkness, fog, lightning, and ocean cliffs, again suggesting danger and high drama. One or more of these elements may be drawing you to the picture and thus to the story within.

FYI, 99.9% of the books sold as "romance" have a happy ending.