I like Beth Kery's writing, it is very polished and there is a story which goes along with the hot sex and passion between her characters. In this book the Hero Shane was a strong minded, head over heels in love with his lady, alpha man who was looking for a reason to clean up criminal activity and save his love at the same time. He was rough yet sweet, abrupt yet caring towards her and I liked where the story started years later after all the worst had already happened. What I did not like was that the heroine held out until the end as to the reason she walked away from him in the first place and this was the reason she kept running from him even through the present time. It was foolish because she clearly could not handle a corrupt police official and his net of gangsters on her own, and even though the hero was an SAC, she could not confide in him. Then when the confession came it was secondary to the last bit of action which then went over with just a whimper. I would have preferred if Shane's method of making Laura confess would have actually worked and then for most of the book they could have been together and solved the issue and we could have seen it play out over time. It was a good book, but I thought the Hero deserved more than he got from this heroine.