A Nora Roberts book, for me, is like sinking into a warm bath after a really hard day. I can always rely on her books for great characters, intriguing plot, wonderful settings and believable chemistry. However, I must admit that this wasn't my favourite of her books. The plot was interesting enough (if a tad implausible - and some of the conversations had by the men as a group were just frankly unrealistic), and while you can always rely on Nora to write strong, confident female protagonists, I found Malory (the main focus of this book, which is the first of a trilogy) just too much of a hard nut at times. So just a couple of small gripes about the book which, otherwise, was a typically gripping NR novel.