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** spoiler alert ** I've heard wonderful things about Sherry Thomas, and I will agree that her writing is superb. Her plotting, however, leaves something to be desired. I know that her 'thing' seems to be writing with flashbacks...or jumps in time. In this particular book, I found it to not only be confusing, but detrimental to the story of the hero and heroine.

Instead of building sexual tension between the two in the present, you read about their first sexual encounter in the past, which removes all the interest in reading about two people falling in love.

Additionally, the devices Ms. Thomas uses to keep Verity's identity a 'secret' from her new employer are quite ridiculous as to be unbelievable. I think there were other ways to handle it.

I did enjoy the secondary romance, however. That part was very well done, and I was wishing for most of the book that those two characters were the main couple.

I actually stopped reading near the end of the book when every problem and every obstacle was cleared away with 2 or 3 pages of conversation. The hero throughout most of the book would not indulge his romance with the heroine because he was engaged to someone else. He was an honorable man....and then suddenly that was just whisked away in a bit of dialogue with the heroine. It was almost as if the author gave up trying to work at making the plot believable and just rushed the ending.

I know she gets many great reviews, I just don't see what all the fuss is about. Well-written? Yes. Well-plotted? No.