There was a lot of angst in this book. The hero and heroine fall madly in love but one week before the wedding she is raped by 2 guys in an elevator. She doesn't tell anyone and goes ahead a gets married and then freaks out and can't sleep with her husband. The story starts 3 years later when they have been apart for 2 years. He was basically emasculated by her refusal to sleep with him or even let him touch her so she left him. So she comes to him for some help with a money problem and he won't let her go again. In the meantime her sister has told him the scoop so at least he knows what's up.

There were bits that I had problems with. First off the girl needed counseling. As soon as the hero found out, if he loved her, he should have gotten her counseling. Secondly even knowing what he did, he kept getting fed up with her fear etc. Then you find out that they had been waiting to have sex until they were married and he was all hyped about marrying a virgin. The fact that she wasn't a virgin anymore turns out to have been her major problem. She wasn't scared of sex, she was just scared he would find out she wasn't a virgin and thus she wouldn't have anything special to give him. When that finally all comes out he tells her it isn't all about her virginity but about him loving her so they finally have sex and everything is now rainbows and butterflies.

I just felt like there were moments of brilliance that were overshadowed by wonky motivations and reactions that kind of didn't strike me as quite right. Didn't quite live up to its potential. ( )