Steffi Grantham is a famous actress who has been on the run for three months after the murder of her brother. She has settled in the small town of Stillwater and is working for a transport company run by Bryce Delaney. When she doesn't report for work, Bryce finds her sick with stomach flu. He looks after her for a couple of days, so he winds up getting caught in Steffi's troubles when thugs break into her home.

Steffi's parents were part of a Russian mob, and were murdered when she was just a child. Their murderer, Walter Sullivan, the man she called Uncle Waltz, has reappeared in her life because her brother had evidence that could finally put Walter in jail. Now that her brother is dead, Walter thinks that Steffi now has that evidence. But she has no idea where it is! In order to prolong her life, Steffi accepts Bryce's help in finding the evidence.

Technically proficient romantic suspense tale, but it never really pulled me in. It took me several days to read. The plot manages to stay on the move throughout, but it gets a little bogged down with Bryce's and Steffi's internal thoughts, as opposed to actual dialogue between them to better convince me of the connection between them. There was one too many instances in which Bryce or Steffi would internally speculate about what Steffi's brother did with his secret recording. The word count is also padded out with several sex scenes.

I appreciate that this delivered a well-paced romantic thriller. It wasn't boring. Steffi and Bryce were well-developed characters. It just never grabbed me. Maybe it's one too many trips to tropeland involving a wounded war vet hero cured by a magic vagina. (Bryce is still haunted by his time in the war.) Maybe I'm a little maxed out on the Romantic Suspense line and need another palatte refresher already. Maybe it's just me! Otherwise, there's not a lot wrong this. It delivers what you would expect for its genre.