this was basically the story of a man who spent all of his time going off to hot spots throughout the world on humanitarian missions and ignoring his father. he meets the heroine who is his father's nurse and they have a 3 month affair during which he continually leaves her to jet off around the world. she wants him to not put himself in danger and for her to be more important to him than his work. they break up and she finds out she's pregnant. Most of the book is the affair and the secret baby is only at the end and it was too much waiting for the other shoe to fall for me. ( )