Secret Betrayal

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Pub Date 12 Jun 2019 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2019

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Description

Librarian Marissa Reynolds has spent years distancing herself from her crime kingpin uncle. When she awakens in an unfamiliar hotel room with blood on her hands and no memory of how she got there, the past returns with a vengeance, and her life spirals into a nightmare. Straight-laced Assistant District attorney Scott Bannister has spent his life seeking justice for the senseless shooting deaths of his parents. When he realizes Marissa is the niece of his prime suspect, he crosses a line, guaranteed to jeopardize both his life and his beloved career. He'll do anything to destroy her uncle. She fears he's using her to achieve his goal. As the body count mounts, and their lives are threatened, they must put aside their distrust and work together to find the devious killer. Will they be able to forgive and find true love?

Librarian Marissa Reynolds has spent years distancing herself from her crime kingpin uncle. When she awakens in an unfamiliar hotel room with blood on her hands and no memory of how she got there...


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I really ended up liking this story a lot. It had really good main characters with complex histories that made for a good story. I liked that Scott wasn't the typical muscle bound, hero expert. Oh, he was smart but he was also nerdy smart too. Everything about that made him more realistic. That's not to say that he didn't stand up terrified against some pretty tough physical threats. It just made him all the more likable. Marissa, what a good woman caught up into the maneuvers of the dangers from her uncle's crime world.
Somebody is definitely out to get them and has been diabolically clever. There has been a lot of advance evil work to try to completely frame them both. It seems like that person is so many steps ahead of them. Forget about the premise of being innocent before proven guilty. Because there is a whole lot of evidence that screams that they are guilty. They are having the hardest time trying to get ahead of it all. Add to that the fact that they are being chased by someone who is doing their best to try to kill them. You can imagine how much action it causes in this book and you would be right. There is lots!
Romance you ask if there is any? That would be a yes. Although Scott keeps forgetting who Marissa's uncle is. Then when he does it causes him to pull back. So there will be a fair amount of pulling together and pushing back in the story. There does end up being a couple of sex scenes for the two of them without it being over-the -top detailed which I liked.
I began to get suspicious about one particular person being a villain in the piece. And the person does get outed in the explosive ending of the book. BUT.... so does one totally unexpected person as well. I liked that the author was able to surprise me so well. I never suspected it.
The story all comes together with many mysteries solved and a H.E.A. for the M.C.'s. A good ending over all.

“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”

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Exciting romantic suspense. Who is telling the truth? Who is hiding the truth? Who is betraying whom? The story will keep you guessing as more secrets are revealed.. A definite page turner.

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I really enjoyed this book.

Main characters Scott and Marissa are interesting . Scott is a lawyer who wants to put Marissa's uncle(mafia boss) behind bars for his own purpose. Marissa lives a quite life far from the shadow of her uncle. Scott and Marissa both get tangled in the murder . On one side police is interested in them as all the evidence is pointing towards them, on the other side someone is out to murder them.
There are some usual suspects who want to frame them for murder but the end is surprising and explosive .

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This ARC was courtesy of netgalley - all thoughts and opinions are mine and unbiased

A new author to me, the cover drew me - what a lush cover - congratulations to whoever is responsible

Romance, suspense all rolled into one - what's not to love !!

I certainly loved this and will be searching out more of the author's work on the back of this

A fantastic read with a very satisfactory ending

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This book was excellent! Totally kept my attention and I wanted to find out what would become of the main characters. Highly reccomended.

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I didn’t know this author who’s been published for three years now and it’s a good discovery. In this book we meet the heroine when she’s been abducted by a stranger and thrown with the hero in a sordid murder case.

What I especially appreciated in this romantic suspense is the fact we have what we could call a beta hero: Scott is not super strong, nor super muscled, not even super talented with a knife or a gun. He’s not an athlete either, by the way he’s out of breath when he runs to the end of the street and he’s stunned for a second when he jumps from the moving car. In short he’s a normal man instead of a super guy. It’s a nice change and even if it made me smile I found this likeable and refreshing. He’s focused on his goal to bring down the heroine’s mob uncle and he’s ready to use her to succeed, but regularly his attraction for her makes him forget his goal.

Marissa is a heroine on his own level: except from knowing how to hack the police’s website (but every librarian knows how to do that isn’t it? LOL), she’s a heroine without extraordinary particularity. She’s likeable and perhaps a bit headstrong but she doesn’t put herself vainly in danger because of that.

I liked that the characters are complex, with deep and plausible pasts. Their love story develops slowly but surely in spite of some doubts on both sides, one resulting on the heroine feeing in a moment I can’t even call TSTL because she seeks shelter with her uncle.

The plot is well thought, all the evidences point at the couple of heroes (strange that no one finds this too easy apart from themselves) but I soon was suspicious about one character meant to be a good guy and another more neutral character whose behavior rubbed me the wrong way. However the rhythm is sustained almost through the whole book and the conclusion in two parts is satisfying.

All in all a enjoyable discovery and I had a good reading time with this RS.

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