I got this for a pound in the bargain bucket at Asda. It looks as though it's gonna be a cheesy Mills and Boon-type story of a girl who thinks she's over her parents' deaths when of course she isn't and who is going to help her get over them? Well of course it's a handsome man.

I was in desperate need of a book to read and found this quite enjoyable. She is given the pages of a novel which describes a great tale of a couple of bad lads, of which we get snippets of as her story with this gorgeous man develops. But all is not as it seems.

The next door neighbour who provides invaluable advice isn't even a dizzy blond! Instead a drunk middle aged man adds humour to the tale. ( )

Being a great admirer of this author,it somewhat pains me to have to report that I did not like this book anything like the others.
It is always difficult when the main character,which in this novel is one Annie O'Neill,is so unsympathetic. Not to put too fine a point on it,she is a real pain-in-the-neck. She owns a small second-hand bookshop in Manhattan,and this never seems to have a single customer except those who come in as important people in the story. How the heck does she make a living ? She is a loner,whose parents are both dead,and about who she knows very little. Her only friend is an older man,an ex-army man,who spends most of his time on- the- bottle.
Into her life comes a mysterious old man carrying both letters from her father to her mother and part of a manuscript,which he tells her he will give her a chapter a week to read. This he does and on this manuscript hangs the story.
She then meets a young man with whom she falls violently in love,or should that be lust. These two very different men,the old and the young, have a profound effect on the life of Annie and touch her life so that it can never be the same again.
Having read two of the author's books already,with I might say,great enjoyment,I'm afraid that this one was disappointing. I found both the characters and the story-line unbelievable in the extreme. ( )