Started out not bad, but got worse and worse. The plot was so thin and the who done it flat because frankly you knew who done through the whole book and for a very flimsy reason. I couldn't stand the heroine, she was very shallow and colorless and she lived in a self centered bubble with her grandest love... the house, no love story unless you count the house. Through the whole book, she never really cared about the suffering of her people, only renovating that house. This book went into the permanently delete file.