I very much like this author, however, I have some things that just can not be done in a good book. The #1 thing is "YOU DO NOT CHEAT ON YOUR WIFE!!!!" If you do this, you are done.....history and stricken from the record. Full stop...period. Under no circumstances is this forgivable not even on an angel infested Christmas. Bleh!!! If he had died, it may have saved it. I don't even think he was properly repentant. The only reason I gave it any stars was out of respect to the author's previous work and the continuity of the series, which as a whole was good.