This is my first book by Suzanne Forster and was excited to read it but I didn't enjoy the book at all. Firstly I loved the concept and the darkness of it but my main problems were: 1.) Very little "page time" with the main characters. 2.) The secondary love story took up half the book. I wanted to read more about the main characters, not them. 3.) Too wordy and introspective...there was very little dialogue in the book. Too much description. If a character asked a question, the other character answered it --one and half pages later! 4.)Webb was not developed enough! I couldn't get a sense of WHY he loved this woman...I couldn't understand why Mary Frances loved him???5.) The priest and the hooker plot bored me to tears, not enough sizzle between them.Basically I was lost in the book (and not in a good way). Confused was more like it. The Golden Needle thing was not believable.