Full of juicy angst. Well written with almost a lyrical quality. I found the heroine to be particularly strong. Especially after she figures out the whole revenge angle. The hero was an ass but I enjoyed him. I especially liked how once she figured out his revenge angle we had a lot of scenes from his POV that showed how remorseful he was and how he was trying desperately not to lose her.

The only thing that pulled it down a star for me was the HUGE misstep the author took at the end. The heroine had been in love with the hero's cousin when they were young but had been forced to leave him and the cousin had subsequently died in a car wreck, a suspected suicide. Hence the revenge. So here was this beautiful young love that pervades and drives the whole book. The author ruins the whole thing be making the cousin have been, unbeknownst to anyone, a drug dealing layabout. So when they discover that he was in fact killed by a rival drug dealer they can both feel better about the fact that they love each other now. I mean sure she needed to come to some realization that she hadn't killed him but couldn't the author have left the love alone and let him be a nice young man who she used to love? Cop out. Big cop out. ( )