Dangerous Secrets by Abbie Zanders

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Two secret pasts… one passionate love story.

Taryn Malone is stranded, broke, and desperate for help. But even if the sexy bartender she’s been eyeing offers her a job for the evening… even if he seduces her with his impossibly intense blue eyes… even if every fiber of her heart tells her to stay with him… she can’t.

Because Taryn Malone doesn’t exist.

Jake Callaghan has been running the family’s Irish pub for years now. When he sees Taryn standing out alone in the rain, he does what he’s been trained to do as a SEAL – he rescues her. It has nothing to do with her full, firm curves, or her loose, golden-blonde hair, or the way she brushes against him that sends lightning bolts through his body. It’s just the right thing to do. 

Really.

But both Taryn and Jake are hiding secrets from each other. Dangerous secrets. And neither one of them knows just how dangerous it can be to fall in love…

Dangerous Secrets

Nice romantic suspense story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 🙃😊😉🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Taryn (a.k.a. Kiyara) – she wakes up with cracked ribs and pneumonia, with her wrists and ankles chained to a bed. Her tormented has had her and tortured her for seven months and she wasn’t waiting for someone to rescue her, she knew that she would have no option but to rescue herself. To find a weakness in him and take advantage of it. He was the same man who had killed her entire family, who had taken, abused and raped her for months on end. She had to play him despite her fever. She runs and keeps running, for 10 years.

The Hero: Jake – in Pine Ridge Pennsylvania, Jake is working at his family bar, Jake’s Irish Pub. He has been running the bar for years now. Most of the people that work there are family, except for Kayla, the waitress and his occasional hook-up though she has recently been pushing Jake for a less open and more permanent type of relationship. He and his brothers are all former military and work covert ops for the government from time to time.

The Story: Jake has some specific requirements for the girl he eventually settled down with. Someone feminine but not needy, someone fun and intelligent, good on the outside and naughty on the inside, someone he could talk to for hours and someone who would be there when he needed her, even if they were fighting. Kayla doesn’t fit that description at all, as a matter of fact, it is one of the busiest nights of the year and she didn’t show up to work because she was mad.

Taryn Malone was cold, and her car was out of commission, while she had only ten bucks to her name. She didn’t have any ID or credit cards. She needed a warm place to hold up for a while. When she sees the pub, she gets a sign that this is the place she should be. Jake was in need of help right at the time Taryn showed up and hired her on the spot. He was interested in her from the start.

The romance was good, and the character development was terrific, I loved Jake and all his special ops brothers. I also liked the fact that ten years had passed since Taryn was held captive so even though she was still scared and damaged, enough time had passed that she was ready for a romance. There was a bunch of suspense which was also good.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via solo narration. It was narrated by Aiden Snow who is one of my all-time favorite male narrators. He has a soft yet very deep voice which is so sexy. I could listen to him for days. He does a great job with this book (and with everything he narrates).

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