I was loving this right up until the end. The author chose to make the hero have someone else do his explaining/groveling for him. You could tell all along that he was crazy about the heroine. I wanted to see him go all out and persuade her of his love. And then after that cop out, he is still mad at her and makes her basically crawl to him. So the last 10 pages sucked. We didn't actually get to experience the anguish he felt as he explained and the hope that he could persuade her and all that other mushy stuff that I read HPs for. Maybe I should even knock it down another star? But still the love scenes were very hot and believable so I guess I leave it at 4 stars. ( )