She's even fantasized a time or two about her son's hunky hockey coach, Ben Forbes. But this note throws her into a tailspin. Laney, accompanied by Ben, travels to Vancouver for the assignation. What she finds is Reese, but he's, er, freshly dead with a stab wound in his chest. The police are quickly suspicious of Laney.
All signs point to bigamy, or worse.
I was never able to work up more than a passing interest in this story, and throughout, the romance seemed at odds with the mystery. Laney must come to grips with the idea that Reese was a man who may have faked his own death to walk out on his wife and child after nine years of marriage, and was quite possibly involved with other women, yet she falls for Ben with hardly a backward glance. It didn't seem realistic given the level of possible betrayal. And the ending didn't strike me as particularly realistic, either. When the mystery of Reese is finally unraveled, let's say the logistics are glossed over and crossed the line into implausibility, given Canada's vast size.