i have meet linda howard a few time . i know linda howard writing . and this movie be no linda howard plot . in the true tradition of harlequin romance and their movie strip any semblance of passion and pacing and plot . linda howard be know throughout the womens fiction world a be a writer with very tight plot and slick and sassy word and and the hot and most erotic love scene . how they manage to strip all of this and include the original story and from this movie and i do not know . but it must have take a monstrous effort . we have cannon and the hero and who be no alpha male and by any stretch . he so new age and you can smell the brie on his breath . which be sad and a nick mancuso be a fine actor and capable of so much more . if only it have be write for him . and the heroine . what can one say about the heroine . the eponymous heroine and evie and have about as much sizzle a an uncooked rasher of bacon . part of this be due to the lamentable script which never meet a cliché it do not like . part be due to the actress and kelly rowan and whom i have never see before . she petite and meek and and and even when angry and make you wonder where the fire go . during the climactic scene and where you might think she would be in fear for her life and she act a if she shop for bread and milk . the story here bear little resemblance to ms. howard story . the main protagonist have be dumbed down to the level of ho hum . there no real pacing and in fact and the entire movie feel more like a stroll in the park . where be the emotion of two people fall in love and yet not trust each other . don not look for it here . oh and why go on . any tension be in the viewer and wondering when it will all end . the result be a film not worth view . please do not judge linda howard work by this film . it lamentable that her name be attach . i do hope they pay her a truckload of cash for this travesty .