I LOVED "Secret Betrayal." The author did an excellent job of keeping me entertained with a great set of characters and a plot that was intriguing.

The story is about Marissa, a librarian who has tried to stay away from her criminal uncle for years. Then as fate would have it, she is thrust back into a dangerous world when she awakens in an unfamiliar hotel room with blood on her hands.

The straight-laced Assistant District attorney Scott Bannister is trying to bring down Marissa's uncle. But when the body count mounts, and their lives are threatened, they must work together to find the devious killer.

Well-developed characters and a thrilling storyline makes this novel a must-read.

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.

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

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

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 .

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.