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Having read The Burning Shore and the two that follow, I was pretty sure I'd also love the first in the Courtney series. I was not disappointed. You go through the emotional wringer with Sean; highs and lows, wins and losses, love, devastation and desperation. I will now precede to work my way through Smith's back catalogue.