I found the first two parts of Alexi and Elysse's story to be very fustrating with their stubborness and jealousy that kept them apart, it was the third part when Alexi finally admitted to his love for Elysse that made the story OK for me. Brenda Joyce has long been a favorite author of mine but I can say that The Promise wasn't all I was hoping for with Alexi and Elysse. I enjoyed "the promise" of those two from the other deWarenne Dynasty books, their chemistry was right but for the story to take the twists that it did for them to come to their final conclusion I don't know if it was worth it.