A Google user
This book started out with a really promising plot line but at some point halfway it in just turned annoying. A pretty young crime lawyer is dumped by her fiance and hooks up with a hot looking stranger for revenge, however it turns out he is her company's new client and an alleged jewelry thief. Just that fiasco, plus her family background would've provided enough material for a whole book, but the whole crime ring story produced so many side plots that were not followed through and sometimes didn't even make sense - for example the chip from the video camera making its way to the jewelry case in matter of seconds (come on, impossible!) and the two kids attacking the pawn shop guy or ransacking her apartment (completely unnecessary and distracting from the main line). I really don't know how the editor missed out on some of the continuity mistakes, as well.
What surprises me is that Dodd, who usually handles her two main characters' stories expertly in all the historicals, has really mishandled this contemporary. Too bad because I liked the premise!