This series was recommended to me, so I decided to start with the first one. At least I think this is the first one in the series. Anyway, it was one that got very high reviews, so I thought it couldn't be too bad. It was pretty boring. Stephanie Laurens seems to write well, yet her characters seem to hold themselves slightly apart from the reader - I just don't seem to connect with them totally and therefore don't feel strongly about them getting together or not. This has been a consistent problem with all the books that I have read by her, so I think I probably won't read any more of them. If you enjoyed this story, great. If you would like to read this story, great - I have a book to sell.