I've heard so many great things about Mariana Zapata-- I love that she has such a strong voice and such diehard fans! But I couldn't get through the two books I tried first: Lingus (porn star? just no!) and Kulti (just too slow!). Clearly she's all about the slow burn and I had trouble getting far enough along to care enough about the characters. That almost happened here too, but I stuck with it and I'm glad I did because this an odd but compelling story. There are lots of things I didn't like about it (the strange pile up of problems in Vanessa's family and Aidan's dickishness through the first two years she works for him), but they are a very well matched pair and Zapata pulls this off. Get ready for an intense read--