This is a light, quick read by an author I have read for years. There are several characters in the story that one doesn't get to know totally. There surface stories are there, but one might want to know more about what they are thinking. There is so much death...and mayhem. How the protagonist could fall in love with a man who connived against her is beyond me. There seems to be no real redemption...just people against people. For escapism, this might be the time to read this book. For any real depth, this is not. That being said, I will read the next book by this author because in the past, some of them have been those one would read more than once. This one is not.