I'm not the audience for category romance, as I keep wanting more development of plot threads that there simply isn't room in the format size to accomodate. That said, I found this surprisingly enjoyable for a quick mindless read. I can believe that Olivia and Tarek are good for each other and will be happy together. While the book would've worked better for me in a secondary world fantasy setting, as I can't buy a modern Middle Eastern non-Israel setting with no mention of Islam whatsoever, it didn't throw me out of the story. That said, the characters' backstory traumas were large enough that I would expect them to take up more story space than they did; again, that's a limitation of the category romance size, but one that made this a weaker book for me. ( )