This was a nice first romance book. I liked that it took place in New Zealand which is not a local I read about often. The details on diving were interesting and the sex was steamy. I liked the secondary characters but I thought it took a little too long to reveal the reasons for the angst of two main characters. Piper was a mess and not very nice for the first half of the book and I didn't get West at all. Maybe it was me but I thought he was a jerk until the big reveal about his attitude towards loss that came at the very end of the book - then he kind of made more sense. But it was a very satisfactory read and I'd recommend it. I was given this book for an honest review.