One Last Secret

By: Adele Parks

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

"I’ll drop anything for a new Adele Parks: she nails it every time"—Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment
"Absolutely gripping"—Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Remains
"Whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying"—Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Forgotten
"Parks gets better and better"—Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time

Everyone has secrets, don’t they?

One last client
A week at a beautiful chateau in the south of France—it should be a straightforward final job for Dora. She’s a smart, stunning and discreet escort, and Daniel has paid for her services before. This time, all she has to do is to convince the assembled guests that she is his girlfriend. Dora is used to playing roles and being whatever men want her to be. It’s all about putting on a front.

One last chance
It will be a last, luxurious look at how the other half lives before Dora turns her back on the escort world and all its dangers. She has found someone she loves and trusts. With him, she can escape the life she’s trapped in. But when Dora arrives at the chateau, it quickly becomes obvious that nothing is what it seems…

One last secret
Dora finds herself face-to-face with a man she has never forgotten, the one man who really knows her. And as old secrets surface, it becomes terrifyingly apparent that one last secret could cost Dora her life…

From the Sunday Times number one bestseller Adele Parks comes a blisteringly provocative novel about power, sex, money and revenge.

#1 bestseller Adele Parks returns with, Our Beautiful Mess, an explosive and deeply emotional family drama that explores the lengths a mother will go to protect her family, even if it risks exposing her past.

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• Our Beautiful Mess

Amazing narration and story

Kept me interested the entire time. Phenomenal character development and quite unique for a psychological suspense and I’ve listened to well over 100.

Different

It’s been a while since I read a book that I really enjoyed and felt was upbeat and entertaining. Not to say that anything is positive in this book, it’s pretty dark but the pace is Swift. And while the characters are complex they are not idiots and there is no childhood sexual trauma to revisit, hallelujah. It checks a lot of boxes for me. That being said, i don’t disagree with the criticisms I’ve read. I just enjoyed it BEYOND those

Entertaining, Exceptional narration

This is the perfect example of a good book made insanely entertaining because of the narration.
Yes it is well plotted, well written, and whip quick clever.
But Kristen Atherton’s performance, her ability to emote, pause in the right places, become male/female, cut glass accented, east end accented, Serbian, and so on is truly out of this world.
Adele Parks has no doubt written a fun, suspenseful, clever book here and done so well.
But this performance takes the book to another level.
Definitely worth a credit.

Brit lit with sex and secrets

This is one of those books that keep you up until dawn listening. Would love to see this in film.

Highly recommend…

A good narrator makes all the difference when it comes to listening to audiobooks. I’ve listened to a few read by Kristin Atherton and was looking for others that she has narrated when I happened upon this title. I’d previously never heard of Adele Parks or her books. Now I can’t wait to read/listen everything else she has written. After listening to the sample of this book I was hooked. I was truly surprised to see
this doesn’t have a five star rating, which in my opinion it deserves.

The storyline is unique, not predictable. Which often seems to be the case these days….the same story rewritten with different characters. This is not that. It’s gripping and leaves you guessing until the end. The main characters are real, flawed, yet lovable and at times relatable. In some ways this reminded me a bit of a VC Andrews book, but written for adults as opposed to young adults. As soon as I finished listening I forwarded the Amazon link on to my mom, sister and several friends, that’s something I rarely, if ever, do. I couldn’t wait to share it.

I listened to the epilogue and will be anxiously awaiting/hoping for a sequel.