Mary, I LOVED this book! I stayed up all night to finish it, and paid for it the next day! (but it was worth it). I signed it out of the library, but I need a copy of my own because I know that I will want to read it again and again.
I personally love a beta hero, I think largely because there aren't very many of them in romance novels. I read a lot of romance novels, and sometimes the alpha heroes can start to feel interchangeable to me. The beta heros are always the ones that I remember.