Reading this book made me angry. Mostly because of the heroine. All the other characters were bland/stupid/inconsequential/did not signify, even the hero, so the only person worth talking about is the heroine. 
 I would be hard-pressed to find a stupider, selfisher, more idiotic, more obnoxious, more slap/smack-worthy female in any book I've read all year. Or ever. In fact, the only other character I can think of who comes close to her is the heroine in A Little Bit Wild. 
 Beyond stupid. Beyond horrible. If anyone ever ought to be beaten to death, it's her. 
 The whole entire reason for this stupid novel is that Zoe Octavia was headstrong and willful, even from childhood - she used to run away. I do not know why in the hell Ms. Chase ever thought that was endearing. What she had needed then were probably a few severe spankings on her bum. If she had gotten them, she wouldn't have grown up to be so stupid and useless and I wouldn't have had to go through the pain of reading such an annoying book. 
 I will admit to skipping chapters and skimming parts copiously, but still, I gave too much time to this to say DNF. 
 Not Loretta Chase's best. By far.