I liked this. Most Harlequin Intriques don't hold my interest but this one did. The writing was good, the characters believable and the plot was clear and logical. The bad guys were a bit unbelievably good but not totally out of the realm of possibility. I enjoyed that, even though this was a second chance at love story (my least favority story line), it was a bit different in that they didn't have a horrible breakup they just parted because they wanted different things and when an out of town job came up, they hadn't been together long enough to decide to figure out a way they could stay together. I think that is a very realistic scenario. They both had realized that breaking up was a mistake but had left too much time pass and felt they couldn't just call the other up.

The heroine did have a 'secret child' by the hero. I thought that the reason that she didn't tell him was reasonable in her world view. She was a genious who didn't know how to have a relationship and she didn't deal real well with people. So she made a wrong choice. She had returned to tell him about the boy and wanted her son to know his relatives but he was kidnapped before she got the chance.

All in all, a pretty enjoyable romantic suspense with a pretty good balance of romance and mystery. ( )