My first brush with Sarina Bowen was...interesting. 
 Gruff Griff Shipley and Audrey make a good pair. Their chemistry cannot be denied. 
 I was just not a fan of the start-stop way of storytelling. This story was told in 3 parts. Why? This isn't some fantasy epic. It just made me feel like the author was running out of ideas, so she'd stop, and begin again, further down the timeline, be it weeks or months. 
 Also Aubrey has a tough mother, who she doesn't see eye to eye with, but the deus-ex-machina reconciliation was...convenient. 
 Nice story.