** spoiler alert ** 
 Okay, so. Love me some Cynsters. Laurens writes well and engagingly. 
 HOWEVER ... I had two qualms with this book. The first, to be fair, is not entirely Laurens' fault. In a romance, there IS a certain inevitability about the, well, romance. However, in the past Cynster books Laurens has excelled at setting things up so that even knowing the two leads would end up in each others' arms by the end, I could not fathom how they would get there. This time, there was really no obstacle. 
 Second, even though Laurens does not write mystery, she's an accomplished and prolific writer, and either she or someone on her editorial staff should have caught one main point: it doesn't count as a mystery if the person doing the Bad Thing is someone you've never met over the course of the book. I went back over scenes trying to figure out what clue I had missed, delighted by the cunning of having some familiar character be the villain and OH WAIT NO IT WAS SOME RANDOM DUDE. 
 So I'm a bit grumpy. This will be a pleasant read if you like the Cynster books, but it isn't quite as awesome as the others in my opinion.