(3.75 stars, but as a personal rule, I round down.) 
 Valiant, was everything I wanted in a hero--possessive, sweet, faithful, protective. Tammy was passive--a usual Laurann Dohner heroine--but at least she wasn't a doormat like Ellie. It didn't matter, though, because Valiant carried the story for them both. He did it so well, in fact, that I was so sure that I would end up giving this 4 or 5 stars. 
 That is, until the writer dragged the story on and on and on and on. Dear Lord, this was so freaking slow. I could count a number of things I accomplished while waiting for something--anything--to happen in the story. Heck, I walked my dog, got a mani-pedi at the spa, and baked a freaking goddamn cake, and Valiant was still nowhere near getting the HEA he deserved. 
 Too many fillers, Ms. Dohner, is what ruined this otherwise amazing book for me. You should have made this 50+ pages shorter. By the time anything remotely interesting was happening, I was already too frustrated to care.