It seems that Ms. Hoag learned part of her trade in the Harold Robbins School of Hot Writing. How else to explain the fact that the sex scenes in this book (and there are WAY too many of them) are incredibly overdone?Add points for the thriller and mystery aspect of this book (which Ms. Hoag does extremely well), but deduct points for the ending - which leaves you wondering exactly what happened to Josh - did he just walk away? Was there an accomplice? And what's the diagnosis on him after he comes home?There are just too many unanswered questions at the end of this book, and the romantic scenes are just too unreal. I haven't seen the miniseries based on this book, and now I'm glad I missed it.