I'm really into this book, but writing this kind of storyline in a romance requires a deft hand and I'm not convinced Kat Martin is doing that great a job of it yet. Six years ago the hero Ben's daughter, Molly, was kidnapped from in front of their home. Now, Autumn, the heroine, has been dreaming of her and thinks she's alive. It is a really serious story. So it's very jarring and awkward to go right from a discussion of Molly to Ben getting aroused and hard by Autumn. In a story like this I feel like that sort of thing needs to be toned way the hell down, or completely separated from the more serious aspects of the story. 

Also, I really don't understand where the summit enters into this. 

"She hadn't lied, exactly. Just embroidered a little."

We're only on the second page of the story!

You know, sometimes people have difficult things going on in their lives they don't want to talk about or rehash because it's scary or painful for them. Not because they don't trust the people with whom they don't share their burdens. Libby needs to pull her head out of her ass and realize not everything is about her. I am so tired of her. She makes it hard to care about her getting an HEA. I especially hate Sam feeling guilty and like he has to grovel to her. Makes me dislike her even more.

I know I'm probably supposed to be on Libby's side here because it sounds like Sam was an unforgivable jerk 12 years ago. Even though I think she has a right to her anger she is annoying as all hell. I kind of feel bad for Sam because she's so unreasonable. And now she thinks he owes her an apology and explanation for his son? Uh, no. The way she's acting it shouldn't be a question why he didn't tell her about him. 

ETA: And, thankfully, she just figured it it out.

"She remembered Sam showing her the plans for the pavilion, and the way she had
brushed him off; Sam coaxing her down to pizza and karaoke night, only to have
her self-righteously proclaim that she needed to work; Sam asking her for
guidance in learning the job, only to have her try to dissuade him with
paperwork.

. . .

'Oh, crap. I have been such a bitch.'”

So, we're all agreed then.