Hamilton does love to write about sex.Throughout the Anita Blake books, she has used a lot of sexual tension, and Anita uses sex as a weapon. Fine. There has been plenty going on to carry it.But this one!I don't read "Romance" novels because I get bored with plot-lines that have little to offer beyond sex. And that's all this was. There were maybe fifty pages of actual action involved. The set-up was interesting; we have a princess in hiding, and her relatives are her most dangerous enemies. OOH! What a premise! But nothing happens!Our heroine does maybe four things in the entire novel. Beyond that, we have lots and lots and lots of sex. This was a yawner. I guess I'm just not enough of a voyeur to enjoy it.Don't buy this in hard bound. If you decide to buy it at all, school yourself to patience, because there isn't much plot here.