I really enjoyed this book as well!! I am fast becoming a fan of Ms. MacKenzie and have already started the third book. What I really liked about this one was the murder mystery aspect to it (a pretty decent nod to the Ripper if I may comment) as well as the way the heroine still was herself at the end but realized that maybe her approach and attitude on everything could be altered (if that makes sense). I will be sad to leave this family when I finish the third one but will be look for other books from her as well!!

I enjoyed this book but not as much as Christa's other novels. I felt that the character Nina was extremely overly paranoid when it came to her interactions with her friends and co-workers. And while I know from personal experience that the teases and taunts you receive in school stay with you, it seemed that the interaction with Greg was *one* incident. Had he been her consistent tormentor it would have made the animosity seem more plausible but from what the story said he only really went after her for a week at best and stopped when he got no response.

I also felt that there wasn't enough to her turn to caring about the stories behind the quilt instead of using it as a jumping off point for her career. Her relationship with her parents were hard to read as is any strained parental relationship for me and I felt that a lot could have been avoided had they just ben honest with her because in a sense it was their fault she was so ignorant about a lot of things yet they seemed like the wanted to blame her for it.

It was enjoyable but like I said not one of my favorites by this author. I also felt the ending was rushed and there was a lot that could have been fleshed out, while other parts of the story trimmed down.