This book started off pretty normal...I figured I would like it but it wouldn't be anything super special. I was really pulled to it because of the Outlander books and there is very little that can measure up to those. But then I kept reading and it kept getting better...I was having more and more trouble putting it down. And then I started crying...and I was lost. This book was awesome. One of the best past/present interwoven stories that I have read yet. And the author's pacing was amazing...I thought at one point, the point where I was crying so hard I couldn't see the page, that it was over and I was going to be up all night crying over the tragedy of love. But she brought it back around and I really had NO IDEA that she was going to take it where she did, and how well she would do it. She really drew me in and was able to make me care about the stories in the present as well as the past, which I have found some authors cannot do when they mix two full past and present stories like she did. Superb story telling.