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I usually like titles by Nora Roberts. This story, however, was too improbable. The primary conflicts between the main character (Vanessa) and her mother as well as the main character and the hero (Brady) drug on for far too long. Both conflicts were solved once the characters had a frank 5-minute discussion. Vanessa's hemming and hawing about a miscommunication and then the need to "find herself" did not make for a particularly riveting story (for me). She spent too much time in the novel being delicate and indecisive. After discovering just how controlling her father was, Vanessa had to be convinced she didn't know all the particulars of her mother and father's marriage, and to lighten up on the mother who was bending over backwards to reconnect with her. It didn't take long for me to view the Vanessa character as heartless (not a good attitude to have toward the heroine of the story). Additionally, I became annoyed with the main character in regards to her health situation. The character doubled over in pain on multiple occasions and refused to admit there was a problem. For me, this just added stupidity to Vanessa's list of foolish traits. To have her get snappy and waspish toward people who were just trying to help her when they could see she was in obvious pain just made her seem kind of diva-ish and martyr-like (again, not sympathetic traits for the supposed heroine of the story). I don't have too many good things to say about the hero either. In my opinion, Brady was kind of bland. Practically from day one, he came on pretty strong, "We haven't seen each other in 12 years, but I still have the hots for you." He was sort of like Pepe Le Pew. Regardless of how many times Vanessa told him she wasn't interested, and despite the inner contemplation from Brady that he knew he would have to go slow to gain Vanessa's trust, he kept coming after her with all the subtlety of Godzilla stomping on Tokyo. This is definitely not one of Roberts' better titles.