A Perfect Dilemma Blog Tour: Review: A Perfect Secret Series by Zoe Dawson

A Perfect Secret Series, #3

New Adult Contemporary Romance and Mystery

Released September 2014

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The one secret she can't stand to keep is the one she can't afford to tell.

The perfect little rich girl, River Pearl Sutton has always done what her family expected of her. She’d become the perfect little beauty queen, the perfect child model and now her global success locks her into a life she never really chose.

Coming home for the summer to prepare for the Founder’s Day Festival, a celebration of her lauded ancestor, she is tasked by her father to write a speech to be delivered at the end of the party.

Returning to Hope Parish brings her back into close proximity with sweet-talking, skirt-chasing Braxton Outlaw, the boy who always seemed immune to her charms in high school. But now he looks at her with those challenging blue eyes, both intimidating and seductive at the same time. Using research of her family lineage and his as way to get close to this bad boy, they fall into a hot, torrid affair.

She stumbles across a terrible secret that could bring to ruin not only her reputation, but the reputation and standing of her family. But when her infatuation with Brax grows into something that she can’t live without, she must decide what to do. Keep the secret and lose Brax or destroy her family and lose them. 

It’s an awful, heartrending perfect dilemma.

 

 REVIEW

 

After having read the entire A Perfect Secret Series in one fell swoop, I have to say that I have come to love this trio of Hellraisers and their beautiful women. Booker, Boone and Braxton each have a place in my heart, and for different reasons, but I will admit that Brax is probably my favorite Outlaw, so I was extremely excited that he got his own story and with River Pearl no less.

 

As with the rest of the books in this series, this one was filled with heartache, turmoil and plenty of sexual chemistry and passion. But, even with the serious undertones of this story, where the Outlaw brothers went, there were sure to be shenanigans. I don't think I'll ever look at a french fry the same way again. LOL.

 

River Pearl hasn't been one of my favorite characters, but once I got to really know her I think she is just hands down awesome. Not at all the spoilt little rich girl with her nose in the air that I had taken her for. Yes, she did expect a certain level of class but deep down she was just a simple girl wanting to be treated like anyone else. I hated that her life had basically been laid out for her and that she hadn't had much say in which path to choose, so her blossoming relationship with Brax was the perfect thing to shake things up.

 

With it, though, came a past of hurt and despair and I was thankful that, once and for all, the truth was revealed and maybe, just maybe, the Outlaws would be welcomed into a community they were so actively involved in. With plenty of skeletons jumping out of the closet, this was a fantastic read that kept me enthralled the entire way through. From the fiery passion that ignited whenever Brax and River were together, to the mystery about Duel Outlaws involvement in a crime that would span decades, I loved every second of this story. 

 

 

 

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A PERFECT SECRET SERIES

 

 

 

A Perfect Secret, Book #1

I know what you did last summer.

Aubree Walker, the perfect girl most likely to succeed, is sure there’s only one person who knows what she did.

Booker Outlaw, one of the three Outlaw brothers—all identical, all gorgeous, all from the wrong side of the tracks, and all pure bad boys. He was always the unpredictable one, the one who would be brash enough to make it big self-publishing horror novels on the internet. He promised never to tell, but everyone knows you can never trust an Outlaw.

Then a year later, in the middle of the night, she receives a phone call at Tulane. Her aunt, who took her in after her mother’s death, is in a coma under suspicious circumstances. Now she has to face that one person who knows all about what she did that summer—sexy Booker.

Returning to Hope Parish to be with her aunt, stirs up all those ugly memories. When Aubree starts getting threats, she can’t help but wonder if what she did last summer was tied to her aunt’s “accident.” Afraid, she turns to the only person who knows the truth and Booker doesn’t hesitate to offer his broad shoulder for her to lean on. But Booker has a secret of his own that could crush their fledgling relationship.

As the hot, sultry summer days move on, she finds that even a perfectly smart girl can lose her heart to a perfectly bad boy. What is she going to do when someone starts asking questions Aubree doesn’t want to answer? She’s knee deep into a terribly dangerous, wholly life changing, who-can-she-really-depend-on perfect mess.

 

REVIEW

A story filled with tragedy, secrets, lies and passion, Dawson certainly knows how to draw her reader in and to keep them captive throughout.

I really loved getting to know Aubree, Booker and his brothers, and I was thoroughly intrigued by the mystery of what had gone down between Aubree and Booker. Aside from the sexual tension and unmistakable chemistry between these two amazing characters, there was definitely something darker that lurked below the surface and Dawson gave just enough to keep me wanting more. With little hints as to what happened, I was able to form my own ideas, but was quite surprised when everything was finally revealed.

This was a great suspenseful read with a ton of emotion and angst. The characters will capture your heart and drag you into a world of love, pain and hope. I was thrilled to get to read this book and cannot wait for more.

 

 

 

 

A Perfect Secret, Book #2

How can they have a future when their past is based on a lie?

The perfect preacher’s daughter, Verity Fairchild, has something that only she and God know about and she wants to keep it that way. Her mistake was easy to keep secret when she was out of town, but now that she’s come back to Hope Parish for the summer, she comes face-to-face with the guy responsible for it all. Boone Outlaw nearly ruined everything for her and despite the fact that he’s now working at her father’s church, she’s determined to stay as far away from him as possible.

Boone Outlaw doesn’t understand Verity’s anger towards him. He barely knows her. In high school she was Holy Mary Verity and she was off limits – except in his dreams where Verity seems way too real. Most of the time he was wasted in high school, not the type of boy Verity would ever look at twice, but he can’t shake the feeling that something might have happened between them. He’s going to break his own rules to get the answers he needs straight from Verity.

What will Verity do when she finds something in Boone that she never knew existed and her perfect mistake is the only thing that could stand between them and their happiness? Will she sacrifice Boone to keep her secret?

REVIEW

 
OMG! I love Boone, in fact I love all the Outlaw siblings, and I was so excited to read Boone's story. It was obvious from the first book that something must have happened for Verity to be so angry with him and I was intrigued to find out what. And, boy, was I surprised when the real secrets of this story unraveled. I had kinda guessed about the whole graduation party situation, but everything that transpired after was a total shocker.

It seems like Hope Parish is filled with a bunch of nutcases who are just waiting to cause chaos, and it was no different in this book. I was on the edge of my seat with excitement and fear but I'm glad things didn't end in tragedy.

Secrets and lies abound in this fantastic sequel to A Perfect Mess. Another rollercoaster ride of emotional ups and downs with plenty of passion. I don't care what the rest of Hope Parish says, I am hooked on the Outlaws and cannot wait for more.

 
 

About the Author

Zoe Dawson is the alter ego of Karen Anders, award winning, multi-published author. Her writing journey started with poetry and branched out into fiction. With a couple of college English courses under her belt, she penned a historical, then moved onto contemporary romance fiction. Today, she is happy producing romantic suspense, romantic mystery, urban fantasy and paranormal novels. The words feed her soul and the happily ever afters feed her heart.

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Release Day Blitz: A Perfect Dilemma by Zoe Dawwson

 

 

 

A Perfect Secret Series, #3

New Adult Contemporary Romance and Mystery

Released September 22, 2014

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The one secret she can't stand to keep is the one she can't afford to tell.

The perfect little rich girl, River Pearl Sutton has always done what her family expected of her. She’d become the perfect little beauty queen, the perfect child model and now her global success locks her into a life she never really chose.

Coming home for the summer to prepare for the Founder’s Day Festival, a celebration of her lauded ancestor, she is tasked by her father to write a speech to be delivered at the end of the party.

Returning to Hope Parish brings her back into close proximity with sweet-talking, skirt-chasing Braxton Outlaw, the boy who always seemed immune to her charms in high school. But now he looks at her with those challenging blue eyes, both intimidating and seductive at the same time. Using research of her family lineage and his as way to get close to this bad boy, they fall into a hot, torrid affair.

She stumbles across a terrible secret that could bring to ruin not only her reputation, but the reputation and standing of her family. But when her infatuation with Brax grows into something that she can’t live without, she must decide what to do. Keep the secret and lose Brax or destroy her family and lose them. 

It’s an awful, heartrending perfect dilemma.

 

 

EXCERPT

I would never forget the summer the Outlaws had caught me playing hooky with Aubree and Verity. Of course I had been the instigator. Verity had been on board almost from the start, because she was way more than the perfect preacher’s daughter everyone believed her to be. Aubree was the holdout. In high school, she was so wrapped up in her need to be perfect she was terrified of doing something naughty. But two against one wore her down.

I was feeling restless and talked them into sneaking out to the swamp with me. I had snagged a bottle of really good wine from my dad’s collection. Which he missed and my brothers guessed it was me. They had taken the blame to protect their little Princess of a sister. Shoot. I could spit. I was so sick of the label.

Anyway, we’d sneaked into the swamp with the triple alibi that each of us was spending the night at one of the others’ house. We’d just been swimming. I had on a bikini which didn’t cover much. That’s when I’d heard it. An air boat. It wasn’t long before the three of them spotted us.

The Outlaw trips had been sixteen then, pure, adolescent renegades, and in my whole life, no one had ever looked at me as intensely as Brax did that night, me standing there in my itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny bikini. His brothers had only paused, but not Brax, with his lazy, hip-shot stance and heavy-lidded gaze. They’d been frogging, had the filled burlap bags in their hands. His T-shirt had been white, damp, and dirty, his arms tanned and thick with muscle, the veins running prominently in relief down his forearms to the backs of his hands. The bright blue fire of his eyes had caressed me everywhere, stroked my skin, stirring something exciting and reckless in me. It had been the most powerful encounter I’ve ever had with him.

I had no shame in high school, and I never ever backed down. It was just my nature, and Braxton pushed every one of my buttons, the sassy ones as well as the sexy ones.

He looked so damned fine in his tight jeans, which had done nothing to hide his reaction to me. I’d noticed his reaction right before he turned to walk away, and if he hadn’t, I might have done something truly crazy that night.

Not sex, I hadn’t been ready for sex, but the way he looked at me had definitely made me long for a hot, wet kiss. It would have been my first kiss and I wondered what it would feel like with him. His moist mouth, his hot tongue. There had been no doubt I wanted to feel his arms around me, and to look into those impossibly blue eyes and taste him. To slide my fingers up into his silky dark hair, to touch his skin and feel his warmth surround me in a safe way. Maybe to feel, for a moment or two, like something besides a damn Princess.

Though why I’d thought I could feel safe with a bad boy Outlaw who broke hearts as easily as he breathed was beyond me.

Now he was physically even stronger, harder, his face still knee-melting, and his hair still too-long and sexily mussed up. He hadn’t looked at me the same way again—until only an hour ago.

It had been four years since the night in the swamp, but I had gone to bed every night since then with his face in my mind—which was ridiculous, since he’d never, not once, made a move on me.

He finally looked up.

We stared at each other like adversaries. He was determined not to give in, and I was determined to make him do just that. It was a battle of wills, and Brax was perhaps the most formidable opponent I’d ever faced. He’d done an admirable job of keeping me at a distance. But Aubree opened my eyes, and I was on to his strategy. He also had revealed it today himself. Before this summer was out, before I went back to New York City, I would have him. I swore it. I would no longer have anything on my list of regrets when I was a sassy old lady. Not a cotton-picking thing.

I would bring him to his knees and make him beg.

 GUEST POST

Facts About A PERFECT DILEMMA

By Zoe Dawson

 

ü Before Braxton sang with his brothers in Outlaws, he was in a band in Lafayette called the Bad Boys and River Pearl would go there and watch him perform in secret.

ü I had only planned to write about 80K and I had so much material I went to 109K. I had to cut out the whole scene I was going to write with everyone at the Cajun cousins’ barbeque.

ü For this book, I had to do a little research on the Civil War. It was interesting.

ü Each of the Outlaws can play several instruments. In fact, Braxton is very proficient on drums.

ü River Pearl’s current house was built on the same land that housed her ancestor, Colonel Beauregard Sutton. The original house was raised and the newer home built.

ü River Pearl’s family owns a pecan store called Nuts ‘N Honey in town where they sell the nuts and other items.

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About the Author

Zoe Dawson is the alter ego of Karen Anders, award winning, multi-published author. Her writing journey started with poetry and branched out into fiction. With a couple of college English courses under her belt, she penned a historical, then moved onto contemporary romance fiction. Today, she is happy producing romantic suspense, romantic mystery, urban fantasy and paranormal novels. The words feed her soul and the happily ever afters feed her heart.

 

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Cover Reveal: A Perfect Dilemma by Zoe Dawson

 

 

A Perfect Secret Series, #3

New Adult Contemporary Romance and Mystery

Releasing June 30, 2014
 

 

The one secret she can't stand to keep is the one she can't afford to tell.

The perfect little rich girl, River Pearl Sutton has always done what her family expected of her. She’d become the perfect little beauty queen, the perfect child model and now her global success locks her into a life she never really chose.

Coming home for the summer to prepare for the Founder’s Day Festival, a celebration of her lauded ancestor, she is tasked by her father to write a speech to be delivered at the end of the party.

Returning to Hope Parish brings her back into close proximity with sweet-talking, skirt-chasing Braxton Outlaw, the boy who always seemed immune to her charms in high school. But now he looks at her with those challenging blue eyes, both intimidating and seductive at the same time. Using research of her family lineage and his as way to get close to this bad boy, they fall into a hot, torrid affair.

She stumbles across a terrible secret that could bring to ruin not only her reputation, but the reputation and standing of her family. But when her infatuation with Brax grows into something that she can’t live without, she must decide what to do. Keep the secret and lose Brax or destroy her family and lose them. 

It’s an awful, heartrending perfect dilemma.

 

About the Author

Zoe Dawson is the alter ego of Karen Anders, award winning, multi-published author. Her writing journey started with poetry and branched out into fiction. With a couple of college English courses under her belt, she penned a historical, then moved onto contemporary romance fiction. Today, she is happy producing romantic suspense, romantic mystery, urban fantasy and paranormal novels. The words feed her soul and the happily ever afters feed her heart.

 Website | Twitter | Facebook | Blog | Goodreads | Newsletter