SECRET PLEASURE (Bound Hearts #13) by Lora Leigh-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 18, 2015

Sebastian DeLoren and Shane Connor were born to love Alyssa Hampstead. No other woman on Earth can burn for them, ignite with passion between them, the way Alyssa does. But after three sensual months of pleasure come to a crashing halt, Sebastian and Shane are left fighting their powerful family, risking it all to have Alyssa one more time…

Alyssa has closed off her heart. A senator’s daughter in the political spotlight, she’d rather be quiet and safe than feel the emotional intensity Sebastian and Shane roused within her years ago. But when the sexy cousins blaze their way back into her life, Alyssa cannot help but succumb to the heady pleasures the two men can give her. And as an unknown enemy draws near, Alyssa will need Sebastian and Shane to protect her…and satisfy every forbidden craving…

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REVIEW: SECRET PLEASURE is the 13th installment in Lora Leigh’s adult, contemporary BOUND HEARTS slightly, paranormal erotic romance series. This is Alyssa Hampstead, Sebastian DeLoren and Shane Connor’s storyline. SECRET PLEASURE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Several previous storyline characters play secondary and supporting roles. The Sinclair Men’s Club is but a hiccup in the overall story.

NOTE: SECRET PLEASURE is a M/F/M storyline with graphic $ex scenes and explicit sexual scenarios. If you are not a fan of ménage romance SECRET PLEASURE will not be for you.

Told from third person point of view SECRET PLEASURE follows the building relationship between Alyssa, Sebastian and his cousin Shane. While on summer vacation in Barcelona, Spain an eighteen year old Alyssa will meet up with the two men who have featured prominently in her sexual fantasies and dreams. For close to three months our trio explore one another’s bodies introducing Alyssa to a world of sexual pleasure she had never known. Sebastian and Shane believe they have found their soul bond in Alyssa but threats against the woman with whom they have fallen in love find our trio destroyed when eight years will pass before Sebastian and Shane are able to claim the woman who stole their hearts.

SECRET PLEASURE is a storyline awash in secrets, lies, espionage and revenge. Alyssa Hampstead will become a pawn in a much bigger game, at times leaving our heroine on the verge of death and struggling to survive. Eight years will pass before Alyssa is reunited with the two men that she loves and throughout the years her anger, humiliation and heartbreak have grown. Without knowing the truth behind Sebastian and Shane’s disappearance Alyssa has become a shadow of her former self-withdrawn, disheartened, and living in an emotional hell of sorrow and pain.

The relationship between Alyssa, Sebastian and Shane begins slowly as our heroine is only eighteen years old to the cousins’ twenty four. Sebastian and Shane begin to show Alyssa the pleasures of exploring the sexual unknown, teaching an inexperienced young woman what it is like to be loved by two men at the same time. The M/F/M $ex scenes are erotic, provocative and explicit.

SECRET PLEASURE covers eight years in the life of Alyssa, Sebastian and Shane. There are moments of intense pleasure and heartbreaking loss; betrayal, revenge and murderous rage. The premise not only focuses on the relationship between three colorful and engaging characters but also looks at the fall out from a life of greed, power, and dangerous family secrets. There is more than one person willing to destroy Alyssa’s happily ever after.

SECRET PLEASURE follows all of Lora Leigh’s signature sexual scenarios and romantic suspense storylines. There is a familiarity to the premise outline where the heroine falls in love with her two leading men ensuring everyone gets his or her happily ever after.

Copy supplied by the publisher through Netgalley.

Reviewed by Sandy