The story had a little too much drama issues thrown in for an effect that really went nowhere. Bull's mother is a typical homophobe, but her "turn around" was too fast to seem realistic. An ex-client of Bull's that's not taking no for an answer shows up in his kitchen and it also goes nowhere. Another mercenary comes to convince Bull to take a job and goes away when he was told no, He then returns to try to get Bull to pay him when the client won't, and Zach takes the matter into his own hands. What we had previously learned about Zak...also made that a bit unrealistic. Not that it couldn’t have happened...we just had had no real explanation...not before or after. Zach gets some closure in his own life learning the truth about his parent's death and coming to terms with some of his family and the community banishing him some time ago. Zack’s uncle is just a mean, self-rigorous, hard-nosed, spiteful character, and his treatment of Zach was horrendous...to put it mildly...but again mild-mannered Zach. comes out on top. All the “going nowhere” drama didn't bother me very much or take away anything important from the story. I’ve read a lot of Andrew Grey’s books and they are always very good, and his characters always get their "happy ever after"...not to mention that I really liked the slow romance between Bull and Zach. ( )