So, Cassidy goes undercover at a lesbian businesswomen's retreat as her clients to be girlfriend. Yep, where could that go wrong (oh, and the retreat goes until Cassidy and her actual girlfriend Maggie's first anniversary).

As evidenced by the title, this is the fourth in the Cassidy James mystery series. In this one Cassidy is hired by a very scared woman, a lesbian, Allison, who believes she's being threatened and perhaps someone's even trying hard to kill her. Martha recommends Cassidy, the PI, and after some convincing Cassidy agrees to help Allison.

Once Cassidy gets there and meets all the suspects (basically the entire executive board of the lesbian organization Women on Top, the ones who that are having the retreat). Of course the retreat's on top of a Mountain, and so Cassidy is pretty much on her own as she tries to figure out which woman is trying to harm Allison (while Cassidy also tries to stay faithful to her girlfriend as well, wouldn't want to skip the romantic part of the book).

I didn't really have a problem with the mystery. It wasn't the most inventive one ever. I sort of knew who did it at least 100 pages or so before the end of the book. I won't spoil why I knew of course, but, it was in there.

Still, even if boring, it was a well constructed mystery. My main problem was that I didn't like Allison, who was one of the main characters in the book, and so in it a lot. I tried to like her, but no matter how I looked at the character, even as I got deep into the book, I just couldn't stand her. I think it's generally a bad thing when you're reading a book and think, 'It'd be interesting if the killer succeeded... just a little bit'. Very bad thing.

But, there are eight books in the Cassidy James series (as of the reading of this fourth book), and I'm gonna try and read as many of them as I can find. And, this was a well written book, I just didn't like all the parts of it. ( )