This is my first book by the author. I don't understand why the story moved so slowly. It seemed to take forever to finish reading it. The spark between the main characters wasn't great. I'm all for people with flaws learning to forgive themselves and others, but here Shaw acted like she was a saint and Ben was an ass. Only if Shaw was slightly more sensible, less optimistic and not-so-pushover at times, the concept of a "strong" heroine would have worked better.