A main problem with this book is that the authors don't adequately describe the trailhead and driving to each one. They don't tell you the crucial information that in many instances, you need a four-wheel drive vehicle to get to the trailhead and you must drive 15 miles over miserably bumpy roads to even begin your hike. This is an unforgivable omission.

I would recommend this book to people who have an interest in peaks besides Whitney and you have four-wheel vehicles and are sufficiently skilled to complete class three hikes. If you're not in this league, I would pass on this book.

Of course, no one at the time knew that at the time, and this book accounts the diplomatic efforts made by the Britain, France and others to avoid the War. This provides a useful perspective on the history of the time, which tends to focus exclusively on Hitler. Watt has thoroughly researched this period, and provides information that even those who are well-read in the events leading up to the war will learn much from this book.

On the minus side - there is very little depth to the story or any characters, this is simply a "he did this and then he did that and then he did this other thing" style of story, there is little interaction or puzzling to be done. There are also a few "un-Longarm-ish" traits on display, as though the author forgot some of the basics for Longarm.

On the plus side - its a ripping action yarn with a nearly impossible mission. No figuring or sneaky plots going on (a staple in the early stories). A good intro into the series as it doesn't assume any previous knowledge or characters.

Having read the book and listened to the audio, the audio adaptation is quite well done, the abridged version flows very well and captures the essence of the story. The ... scenes have been downplayed a bit. Mr. Cameron is increasingly comfortable with the style and characters of the stories and does an excellent job, using different voices (but not so forced that they sound dumb) for characters and better pacing and intensity then earlier works.

It's poor judgement to choose a book like this one for yourself to develop your own relationship or sexual life with, because you'd have to be two people, the first a therapist, the second (and maybe third, including your partner) some client with a problem. While you could role model yourself and switch among those roles, adapting the book's content to your needs, I think it's better to look elsewhere for help for yourself. Another book written by the same authors is called Know-how, and aims to help it's readers help THEIR OWN relationship problems.

I've read this book and others by the same author, and couldn't make the content of the book "Solutions" relevant to my life in any valuable way while the other books were all quite applicable. Until the obvious occured to me, "This book is intended for therapists, not for people wanting to help their own relationship lives". Then I lost interest in this book. I'm not a therapist and don't plan to be one.

I don't recommend this book to anyone who is not a practicing marriage/couple therapist. It's value to someone who is not a therapist is almost nil.

Doyle has a major vision in the middle of his nightly beer run. One that starts out inside the head of a woman who is being burnt to a crisp and ends up with an image of a mysterious spinning coin. Badly shaken up, he is aided by Terri Miller a young woman who is trying to live in Los Angeles. In short order Doyle has offended Terri and run out trying to find Angel. Upset by Doyle and her own poor luck Terri leaves the store to encounter Andy, a young man who seems to have everything figured out. No surprise, Andy offers to help Terri out, getting the major subplot underway.

When Doyle reaches Angel, they are puzzled by the parameters of a vision that offers so little help. They already know they have a problem with something that likes to burn people up, since the police are desperately trying to find a serial killer that everyone is calling the Krispy Kritter. But when they get to the site of that night's Kritter killing they find no new evidence. While Detective Kate Lockley is not assigned to this case, Angel notices that she is haunting the scene.

Kate is involved because a close friend, Dierdre Arensen, has lost her father to the Kritter. Dierdre is so frustrated with the LAPD's lack of progress that Kate finally decides to take the psychologist to see Angel. In the meantime Terri is inducted in the Illuminati, moves in next to Cordelia and literally drops one of the mysterious coins in Cordelia's lap. By the time Dierdre is explaining to Angel that she believes her father was killed by a cult, he already knows that he is chasing Feutoch, a demon who makes a practice of offering to fulfill wishes in return for souls to toast. The coin is the mark whereby the demon finds his victims. Their only hope for information is Terri, who Doyle is assigned to follow and befriend. This turns out to be an assignment that is seriously beyond Doyle's somewhat primitive social skills.

The rest of the novel is predictable, if well told. The painfully inept Doyle manages to avoid being totally comic, and the overall result is entertaining. Dokey has a somewhat hardboiled style which is a bit alarming at first, but then becomes quite refreshing. I have to confess that I am getting a bit tired of 'early' Angel novels. It is getting harder and harder to accept stories that are years behind the show. It would be nice if Twentieth Century Fox would open up a little bit and allow the stories to be more contemporary. Otherwise we are stuck with well-written, new old fiction. Which eventually wears thin.

For four years, Gray Falconer has been held captive on a deserted island by cutthroat pirates who detained him for blackmail purposes. He does not know for certain who paid the rogues to abduct him, but thinks that the avaricious and duplicitous father of his fiancee did the deed.

When he manages to escape, his only thought is to be reunited with his one true love. However, Gray is stunned when Minerva fails to greet him with open arms. Minerva thought Gray was dead and went on with her life. She has devoted her time supporting causes that free women from male domination. She resents that Gray believes that she should just take him back and, in turn, reject her family. Minerva refuses to accept that her parents are shysters and believes Gray should look elsewhere for his enemy.

As the pair tries to come to some sort of understanding, there are conspiracies within conspiracies that strive to keep the two lovers permanently apart.

Stella Cameron treats readers to a fun to read novel even if the work is a bit of departure from her usual style. WAIT FOR ME is an unusual historical gothic melodrama, abounding with a multitude of villainous suspects, an emancipated heroine, and a hero who loves and worships her.

Erotic sex scenes, high drama, and serio-comic exchanges turn this book into a dynamic and innovative novel.

Harriet Klausner