Sinful Secrets is about revenge, giving up revenge for love, protecting a lover, and suspicions. It is seriously filled with angst, heck, OVERFLOWING with angst, as just about everybody is seriously conflicting, emotions going one way, and logic demanding it go the other way. And yes, there are bodies near the end... people die.
Catherine Donnelly of Donnelly Dining chain was supposed to be the responsible one, but she doesn't have the killer instinct for the corporate world, so her father said. So even she was surprised to find herself in the bed of Jason August, superstar chef enemy of the Donnellys... He swept her off her feet, and they and a wonderful evening. But before dawn, she slipped out of their bed, left the ring on the nightstand, and walked out. A year later, Catherine found herself at her wit's end, being blackmailed with a secret sex tape... and was rescued by who she believed to be the perpetrator... Jason August. All the signs point toward Jason as perp of a long list of actions taken against the Donnelly empire, but Jason swears he had abandoned his revenge plans when he met Catherine. And Jason was not about to let Cat walk out of his life again... even as someone strikes from the shadows, waiting to spring his trap, on the older Donnelly, Catherine, and Catherine's brother, with Jason being the ultimate fall guy...
Catherine doesn't trust Jason, believing him to be the one avenging his father on her father. His own outburst didn't help. Obviously her brother and father believe Jason is trouble and mortal enemy, even though Jason swore he never acted upon the revenge. The end was pretty darn tense though. In the end I liked the novel more than I hated it, even though the plot was slightly amaterish, IMHO.
Category: Romantic Suspense
Primary Plot: Woman found her family company under attack, thought her ex was responsible, but he swore he abandoned the revenge long time ago; is he telling the truth? can she trust him?
Tropes: revenge, enemies to lovers, woman in peril, protector, blackmail
Overall Rating: 4/5
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