This was a surprisingly good book. It could have been better in that it was somewhat predictable and tacky in the story line. The pursued woman who just happens to marry a ridiculously good-looking, charming and unbelievably wealthy man while she has no real flaws as most humans. Their sex life is perfect and they almost instantly fall in love and get married in (didn't check the timeline) a couple of months if that. The couple also ends up perfectly happy in the end. I suppose there were the unruly teenage step-children, but that didn't seem to affect the relationship as it would in real life.
The good part, and the part that I find surprising, is that the book held my attention. It was interesting in a lot of areas (to me anyway). I suppose it was the suspense (another thing though, that was unrealistic). It was interesting that Jane had an ex-husband who still tried to hang out at her house and it was nice to fantasize that prince charming would come along and rescue Jane at any time. Jane was also portrayed as intelligent, independent, brave and resourceful. The unrealistic suspense situation involved multiple attempts on Jane's life in which any normal human being would have contacted the police and the surrounding human beings would have completely believed Jane when she tried to tell them her life was in danger. In the book, no one believed her. Her husband didn't believe her when Jane told him about a nurse, who wasn't really a nurse, tried to kill her in the hospital room. She was also locked in a sauna in a temperature over 200 degrees. Any person would have been alarmed by that, but no one in the novel seemed to be.
I did enjoy the book nevertheless. I plan on reading all her other novels. Fantasy is nice sometimes. I would give this book a 7/10
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