This is a truly awful book by an author whose work I usually devour. The plot is absurd, and the characters, with one or two exceptions, totally unlikable. I hope that this is not the beginning of a new series. I forced myself to finish the book (only because I was on vacation in a country where it was impossible to find a replacement book) and it got worse and worse by the page. It reads like a book Kellerman might have written in her teens, and then dusted off to capitalize on the fact that she now has a following. I'd give it a minus-Star rating if I could.