Okay, so the idea behind this story was great, but somewhere along the way it got lost. While it was a sweet love story in some respects, I just needed more and wanted to feel drawn more into it than I was.
First off, I nearly turned this over as a DNF because of Dana's attitude in the first several chapters. Yeah, she's supposed to be a little spoiled and snotty when we first meet her, but she spends her first scenes in the story pining after and sleeping with a married man. This I could have written off as just a selfish choice seeing as how hero cop Craig tells her his marriage is virtually over anyway. But when she crassly starts defending the affair to herself because it's fun and great sex, I started to really dislike her. It just made her seem like a self-absorbed tramp for a first impression, which isn't good. Gradually, the story shifted into the real point to it all, the love story between her and Jason. He really saved the story for me, because I really loved him and the way he put her in her place by not falling all over her really made a turning point in the book.
Jason, coming off a separation and very nearly divorced, is closed off and not interested in Dana's crap. But he (and I as well) starts to see another side to her, one that has redeeming qualities and could even be likable. I think the real pivotal moment was when Dana finally realizes how very wrong the affair was. She sees Craig is a cheating bastard and is sickened by what she did, and it scored her a few points for me. I liked where things went with her and Jason from there, it was a gradual evolution where the attraction became something they couldn't deny, and they had a sweet friendship to go along with it.
I think the biggest issues for me other than the pre-Jason Dana were the holes in the plot and the fact that it was the dreaded "tell me, don't show me" style of story. Certain parts of the story were underdeveloped and left hanging, and it made it hard for me to really connect to it. And then there's one of my biggest pet peeves with writing, especially romance stories. It's incredibly difficult to feel the emotions along with the characters when the narrations just skim the surface. Either Dana's feeling were just that shallow, or we weren't shown the true depth of what she experienced, because it didn't come across as well as it could have. And honestly, for a NA romance, this was seriously lacking in the steaminess department. It was tamed down to a PG-13 worthy performance, which is a big disappointment when you're expecting some seriously hot scenes!!
Overall, the story was good and the characters were okay, and this was a decent sweet romance read. I was expecting more, but I'm not sorry that I read it in the end.