I thought this story line started out great but there was sort of strange behavior I thought on the part of the Heroine in the first confrontation in the first few pages.  Despite recovering from severe injuries, she felt she had to be the one to take charge.  Kind of silly I thought but maybe they wanted to establish how tough she was. However she repeated this behavior several times. From that point on, she always had to be the superwoman and I found it was very emasculating of supposed hero, her counterpart.  The confrontations continue and she continued to be the superwoman never giving the supposed male the chance to be at least her equal. In fact she had to be the one to rescue him several times and despite their partnership, she consistantly went around his instructions and just went a ahead and did what she felt like. I am only 2/3rds done with the book and it is all I can do to force myself to finish it. I normally love this author and unfortunately I bought both books in this series.  Barring a miracle, I don't think i will be finishing it or even bothering to read the second book.