content: If Nora Roberts wrote this book herself, I would be very much surprised. It doesn't read like Nora Roberts at all; she has a distinct style, and this is clumsy. Maybe she wrote an outline and handed it off; it's just awful.The familiar characters are flat; the heroine is impossible; the hero, well, a cardboard cut-out would have more life. The kid is great; probably the only character she actually fleshed out.I liked the Stanislaski series, but this is not even worthy of succession. It went straight to the dustbin here.