The main character in this book, Mia, and I are two different women. I've never had a rape fantasy in my life. If I found out the guy that I was "fucking" had been keeping secret surveillance for years, I wouldn't feel protected and wanted. Desired and heady. 
 No. I would freak. 
 And call the police. 
 And just lose my shit in general. 
 What Nina G. Jones (the author) does well here, is give me a dual viewpoint of Mia, and the person who's collecting on a 14-year-old debt called "Tax." He is intense. He is a bit of a masochist. He swaps birth pills for placebos to get Mia pregnant. Has killed people. Poisoned them. Injected them with some chemical to induce heart attacks. Overall, he is a character that deserves little REDEMPTION. 
 But does he get it? 
 Hell yes. 
 And it's compelling as fuck. 
 But I'm just not sure how I feel about a HEA after all the shit that went down. I was proper preparing for a Romeo & Juliet style ending. Which is why I reduced a star. I would've reduced another, but then it would've seemed like I thought the book was "meh" when I didn't at all. Great beginning. Decent middle and a strange ending, that seemed to whitewash over past sins and give a fairytale ending where everyone except Tax was held culpable for their crimes, when it was him that deserved the biggest reckoning of all. For me at least. 
 (I wasn't pleased Mia excused her father's murder as "he deserved it." No he didn't, Mia. No, he fucking didn't.)