Pretty good. Like most Brockmanns, the characters are well-rounded and reasonable. Though I do think that the answer to his question of "when could I tell her" is "before, or at the same time as, I go to great lengths to trick/convince her to stay near me" - the book would have been a lot shorter if he'd _explained_ why he wasn't there when he promised. Or just given her the book, for that matter! The premise is a little weak, but the story makes up for a lot. The sex is hot, but not excessively explicit - especially when he's explaining how to write a love scene and illustrating with suntan lotion. Cute setup, with two romance authors as the hero and heroine. And Jared was highly amusing - romance character talking back to his author. ( )

Typical contemporary from Brockmann. Her characters almost always are more compelling than the plot. ( )

From BackCover:
EITHER WAY HE WAS A CONDEMNED MAN

So here I sit, writing letters that have no hope of reaching you until I am free to deliver them myself. With luck, that will be soon. For your eighteenth birthday is coming, and I intend to be there, like I promised.…

For years, a trumped-up charge — and a Central American prison cell — kept Jax Winchester from claiming the girl he loved. Now he was a free man. Or was he?

For only the memory of Kelly O'Brien — and the letters he'd composed to her — had kept him going. But once he was released, he knew he was still a prisoner — in a jail of his own making. The way out this time? Keep that promise he'd made to Kelly all those years ago — and claim her for his own.… ( )