Your Secret's Safe with Me

By: Phoenix Rayne

Narrated by: Lady Abaddon

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Cambria Price definitely has secrets she doesn't want exposed. Growing up in orphanages and foster care, she struggles to have the things she wants and needs to be an ordinary girl. Growing up to be one of the best boosters in Little Rock, Cambria uses what she was taught to get whatever she needs whenever she needs it. She has a crew that she trusts and all of her lifts run smoothly like clockwork. Until one night, everything falls apart. Two in her crew take the fall for Cambria and the others. She decides to leave the boosting world behind her to have a new start.

Cambria, now a hard working barmaid, thinks her past is in the past until it catches up to her. She's blackmailed into doing some of her old tricks. She has no choice but to do what she's told, or else. In the process, she has to get one of the best attorneys in the city to fall for her. While losing control of her own life, Cambria finds herself falling for her mark and he for her.

In this erotically stimulating romance, Dorian becomes addicted to her. Just the thought of her brings Dorian to his knees. Cambria's body yearns for Dorian as well as she has never had every desire and want filled and satisfied by such a man. Dorian wakes up the sexual beast inside of her. Dorian has ruined her. She's never wanted a man the way she longs for him.

Is this fate or just another job for Cambria? Will her secrets destroy what's to become of them?

©2017 Phoenix Rayne (P)2017 Phoenix Rayne

3.25 Stars

3.25 Stars

I've never read or listened to a Phoenix Rayne book prior to picking up Your Secret's Safe with Me.

I had no idea what I was getting or what would happen. I don't think I even looked at the blurb. I'm a rebel like that.

And apparently, our main characters are all rebels in some way. Except maybe Dorian. He seems to be on the up and up.

Cambria didn't have the best childhood. She went through foster care and orphanages, but never had a place to call home.
Instead of a place, she found people. A crew she surrounded herself with, lived with, worked with.
Until it all went south and she wanted out.

Trying to do better for herself and her bestie, Hayes, Cambria realizes doing better really means doing things legally. But staying on the right side of the law may not be as easy as she thinks.

When Cambria meets Dorian, she knows just how to play him to keep his attention. This is where I break off and tell you how hot Dorian is--because he is--and how kind and considerate and how he gives, and gives, and gives.
He's amazing.

And Cambria doesn't deserve him.
But despite everything set against them, these two find themselves drawn to each other. They can't stay away, they can't resist, and they can't get enough. The relationship develops very quickly.
And this is where I start to struggle. But only because I don't get Dorian. I understand Cambria's insta-love, but Dorian's doesn't make as much sense. Read the book, you'll understand why I say this.

But the twists in this book and the ending have me wanting to grab book two. I wanna see how this all plays out. Because you're getting some seriously dirty sex in this first book, but you're also getting a bit of suspense.

And that will have you wanting more.

My biggest complaint: the focus on the clothes and food. Seriously, I love detail in books, but I found myself wanting to skip ahead to get to the real meat of the story. Pretty sure there's an unintentional pun there. Maybe.

*I listened to the audio of this and was pleased with how easily it was to slip right into the lives of these characters. Before I knew it I was setting out clothes for Hayes, standing up to those who opposed me, and gettin' it on with Dorian. Well done.

carbi b........

okay is it me or did the young lady sound like cardi b..... it was fine for cam's voice but with the other voices it got a bit difficult for me...... but what an end.... im mad!...(in a good way)lol

I can't even finish

I'm trying hard to read this book but between the narrator and the dialogue I don't think I can finish. The narrators voice and the words seem complete opposites.

Why, Why, WHY!!!

Maybe it was the audiobook narrator but this book was just PAINFUL!!! It just didn't flow for me. It had way too many descriptive scenes that were unnecessary, like giving the total cost of clothing, constantly describing what EVERYONE is wearing, and the sex scenes....ugh! Clinical and cold! The characters were too stereotypical and they didn't have any chemistry that I could hear. I hate to say it but this book was just a mess!

DNF @ 48%

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