Review: Loved it!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2012
Hot Secrets reads like a long epilogue to Dangerous Lover, the first book in Lisa Marie Rice's Dangerous series and it is totally worth the price. Jack and Caroline got together in Dangerous Lover and in this novella Caroline is working in a homeless shelter on Christmas Eve. The shelter is attacked by a stepfather of one of the young boys there (his mother is in a coma in the hospital b/c of awful stepfather) and the man takes the boy hostage. It's up to Caroline to get him visible to the SWAT team waiting to take him down and she's depending on everything her husband Jack (a former army ranger) has taught her.The suspense is only a part of Hot Secrets. As a standalone, this would be an entertaining short read but if you're a fan of Dangerous Lover (the absolute best book in the Dangerous series), then it is a must read. Both characters get page time and what I really enjoyed the most was learning about Jack from Caroline's point of view. The ending to Dangerous Lover was abrupt and even though in the last scene Caroline finds out she knew Jack from when she was a teenager and worked at a homeless shelter, the reader never gets any insight into if she really remembered him or not and we get to see that in this novella. Jack was still as hot and protective as ever.Overall, this was a sweet, but incredibly sexy read about a married couple very devoted to and in love with each other. The ending was so cute!