A friend sent me this in a box of books and I feel bad rating it so low because of that, but the plot is one I've seen before and the author didn't make me care enough about the characters, so I felt like I was forcing myself to read the book.

The plot reminds me a bit of one on the TV show "Touched By An Angel" where Randy Travis played a former-con-man-gone-straight. In both cases, a man from the past shows up and instead of trusting that the people who know him now will support him if he tells the truth, chooses instead to try to hide his past by appeasing the man-who-knew-him-when. I believe in both cases, the man from the past is a con-man himself.

The romance is just as silly--Jace tells himself he's giving Kitty's repair jobs priority because her late husband was a hero. And it may have started out that way, but it's obvious to all that there's more going on than that--though as usual for this plot, it takes them chapters and chapters to work through it and figure it out and then get together. ( )