This is of the few books I just couldn't bring myself to finish. There's formulaic and then there's form novels. Change the names and places, shuffle the confrontations around and you have any of her earlier works. This one includes the standard sweet, innocent, desperate, misunderstood ingenue complete with nightmares. A standard rich, overly masculine, scheming, tortured and grouchy "hero" nearly 2 decades her senior complete with scheming, gold-digging feme-fatal mistress and loyal mother figure housekeeper. The housekeeper is the only vaguely likable character, the constant wrangling between the 2 lead characters was gave me a headache and the plot is so contrived it may as well be reality TV.
What do You think about Storm Over The Lake (2002)?