While I enjoyed the book, and liked the two main characters, I felt a decided lack of..something...in this book. Howard has all the elements here for a really decent suspense novel and a satisfying romance but didn't quite pull it out in the end. The best "heat" in the book was in the first part, and while I could believe the chemistry between the main characters, I would have liked to have seen the tension between them explored and developed more thoroughly. There was some classic Howard humor and while some of it worked, some didn't, at least for me. The "Hee Haw" wedding was one such failed attempt. The situation didn't end up being funny, it simply made Jaclyn look like a petty snob, which seemed out of character. (As an aside, the author mentions Brad Paisley several times in conjunction with this wedding "disaster." His music is linked with bad mullets and "backwards, tacky" Nascar-loving hillbillies. It just so happens the night before I read this passage in the book I'd actually seen Brad Paisley live in concert, and I have to tell you, out of about 8,000+ people I didn't see one mullet. By the description of the wedding, the participants would more likely be listening to Hank Williams Jr. or Willie Nelson. Although....the "tick" song is pretty funny.)

BTW- I didn't mind the wedding details, nor did I think they were too plentiful. The heroine is a wedding planner and taking the reader through her day adds to the story for me. To skim those details would have made the book seem really shallow and vague to me.

So, enjoyable and I'm glad I read it...good but not great.