I started reading this once and bailed, then found it in an anthology and tried again. This time I finished it but the things that turned me off at first stayed problematic: I don't like the "use one guy/girl to make an impression on another one" plot device, even when the person is up front about it. When the heroes do it it is always treated with horror (how dare he!) but somehow when the heroines do it it's okay? it's just a symptom of her "confusion"? Here I got tired of Pepper's "confusion" about using Reece to get to Hunter. It wasn't okay and it took her too long to figure that out. That said, Sophie Jordan is a better writer than most NA writers so that is one selling point.