One Last Secret
Would you kill to keep it?
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.
Would you kill to keep it?
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.
BUY
What I thought about One Last Secret
Theadora (Dora) is a sex worker. A high class sex worker, but as the story
unfolds, it doesn't really matter much -- she still risks quite a bit
for this choice of profession. After a particularly brutal evening on the job, her best friend takes care of her and convinces her to leave the profession.
Evan is Dora's best friend.He loves Dora and cares for her. When he finally convinces her to leave her job behind, it looks like things might work out until Dora accepts one last job. I think I was about to throw my e-reader when she agrees to play a part for a weekend. What she finds is that everything is creepy from the start and she's in deep do-do pretty quickly with help from her hosts.
Things get even worse for Dora when the owner of the chateau shows up. And there's more. The end of this book is FULL of revelations, until the final secret is exposed.
I really liked this. First, it was easy to feel sympathetic toward Dora. The story is told in her voice, so the reader gets to know her quite well at the start of the book. Her hesitancy to enter a relationship beyond friendship with Evan makes sense as she knows his rich family would not accept her. When he leaves on a business trip, she is coerced into one last job, which becomes a setup with devastating consequences for Dora and Evan.
I don't want to spoil this suspenseful domestic thriller for you, but I will say that the secrets revealed are big ones and they keep coming until the final pages. I really loved that about this book. I'm still trying to piece some of it together in my head, as to who did what and when, but One Last Secret is a well-crafted story with lots of reveals and it evoked plenty of emotions from this reader. Even though I finished this a few days ago, this book is still in my head.
Overall, a well-crafted domestic thriller that will leave you guessing until the end when some of the reveals are shocking. Really enjoyed this story.
About the Author
Adele Parks is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of twenty novels, including Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck, as well as I Invited Her In. Just My Luck is currently in development to be made into a movie. Her novels have sold 4 million copies in the UK alone, and her work has also been translated into thirty-one languages.
Twitter: @AdeleParks
Instagram: @adele_parks
Facebook: @OfficialAdeleParks
No comments:
Post a Comment