Maggie Bradford has had it tough when it comes to romance. She had to kill her abusive husband, and later she loses an older and rich lover to a heart attack while the two of them are sailing. The worse of it comes when she meets soccer star Will Shepherd who is a double image of David Beckham.

Besides being well known from the field, the Golden Arrow is also quite the ladies man. He has no trouble finding romance. Unfortunately for most of the ladies he ends up seeing, things don't usually turn out well. In fact, as time goes by, their experiences get progressively worse ... and gorier.

Will tries to put all that aside when he and Maggie start to see each other. She has recovered from the loss of her lover, and has used her personal history to write a number of wonderful songs that, along with her voice, catapult her into superstardom. In some ways, they are made for each other, and the tabloids just eat the world's newest glam couple right up.

Their marriage leads to the expected rocky road and a murder trial that ends up being totally off track in a way that only Patterson can create. Will and Maggie both star in the narrative, with Maggie being presented in first-person and Will in third person. Ironically, the reader fully knows what is going on in their heads, but he is still totally caught off guard by what really happens in the end.

This is not necessarily one of his best, but Patterson did put together another nice read with this one.