First book I've read by Catherine Coulter and I found it engrossing. Crime families, kidnapping,and child molestation are usually topics I avoid, but the enchanting child victim and the people who love and protect her made this thriller more about love and family than ugliness and perversion. Violence was obvious but not described in gory detail, and the child's nightmare experience was referred to only as it pertained to her recovery---not sensationalized. Lots of twists and turns to plot leading to a satisfying ending.