One reason that I love romance novels is the pure adrenalin rush that comes from exciting chemistry between the main characters. From the moment the characters meet in this book I waited for the electricity. It was written like the writer was given a four book deal and one of the books had to be an Interracial romance. Lacie Adams is supposed to be a mature woman with an education and life experience. Tony Douglas, her love interest is written like a high school senior. I expect to feel swept away by romance, not dragged through a jerry springer like experience. There was so much time spent on the storylines of other characters, I almost forgot the two main characters were supposed to be involved. I love it when a writer creates a love story that is grand, passionate and does not apologize for being a romance, no matter what the ethnicity of the characters.