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Blurb:
From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a new dark age-gap, enemies-to-lovers MM captive romance!
He’s a mysterious recluse with an unhealthy obsession with his therapist.
He doesn’t want help… He just wants him.
Love is for those who deserve it. I certainly don’t. The person I loved most in this world died in my arms decades ago and I am to blame. I’ll forever be tormented by what-ifs where I was Mom’s hero instead of this repulsive, mask-wearing beast I’ve ultimately become.
All that’s left of my heart is black smoke—suffocating and toxic. I’m nothing but a shadow of a man, locked in my dark fortress of a home, away from people and hidden in my carefully walled-up world.
My family is all I have to live for. Somehow, they look past the fact I survived when Mom didn’t. Like it’s not my fault. It’s also why I’ll protect them with every single fiber of my being.
Even from him.
Tate Prince has been paid by my father to infiltrate our family. Invited not just into our homes, but into our past, our heartaches, and even our minds. Dad thinks this young man—a therapist with a captivating grin—is the key to repairing all the damage we’ve sustained over the years.
But I know better.
I can see through Tate’s friendly disposition and easygoing nature.
In his eyes are dark secrets that haunt him like ghosts from another life. He’s not as perfect as he seems. Underneath his mask of smiles are ugly truths I’m desperate to uncover.
And I will uncover them.
If that means keeping him under lock and key where I can watch his every move, I will.
It’s not captivity if he’s being paid, right?
However, when I start unraveling his life, I learn there’s a lot more to Tate than meets the eye. The more I discover, the more obsessed I become. My heart, the dusty, charred, still-smoking useless organ sparks to life making me come to a startling realization. I want him.
I’m not the only one who feels this way, though. Tate’s biggest secret is he already has a monster in his life. A terrible, spiteful monster—one who’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants.
But I’m uglier, nastier, and a hell of a lot more vicious. I may have failed to save my mother, but I will not fail this time.
Tate is mine.
This is Book #3 in the Shameful Secrets series that is a complete mm standalone novel with a happily ever after.
5 Stars
This is the first book I’ve read in this series and it was quite the introduction to this family but HOLY WOW this book just completely captured my attention, I couldn’t put it down and just needed more of Jude and Tate! It is intense and raw and the Park family brings a good amount of taboo, but it’s also passionate, healing, loving and beautiful!
Tate Prince is a great therapist, but he’s got a lot of his own demons he’s dealing with thanks to an abusive ex turned stalker. He’s hired to be a live in therapist for the Park family, mainly focusing on Jude. He thinks it’s the perfect solution, a way to make money and be hidden for a while. What he discovers is a whole world he never expected, a family with a lot of twisted secrets and a man who hides his face behind a mask a lives in a world of pain and guilt.
When Jude was a teenager he had it all, a star football player expected to go pro and living the life, that is until the fire that took his mom and almost took his life. He’s lived with the pain and scars of that event, along with the deep guilt of not being able save his mom for years. He stays secluded in his house on the family property limiting contact with his family. When he learns about his father’s plans for the therapist he’s completely against it, that it until he sees Tate.
This book was a wild ride, there’s a lot of drama, angst, darkness and mystery and it completely consumed me! I loved Tate and Jude together, seeing Tate chip away at Jude’s walls bit by bit and while a lot of it broke my heart, I loved seeing the healing process. There is also so much passion between these two – it’s intense and so hot and just cannot be denied. It’s like these two are just meant to be and truly need each other. There is also a lot to the plot of this book, especially concerning the other Park family members then you add in Tate’s stalker ex. It definitely kept my attention, I was always wanting to know what was going to happen next. It also has a great twist, one I didn’t see coming, it totally got me and I loved it! This really was a fantastic read, again I felt consumed by these characters and their story and absolutely loved them! Tate and Jude are unique, they are broken but beautiful and so worthy of true love and happiness and I loved seeing them find that together!
About the Author:
K Webster is a USA Today Bestselling author. Her titles have claimed many bestseller tags in numerous categories, are translated in multiple languages, and have been adapted into audiobooks. She lives in “Tornado Alley” with her husband, two children, and her baby dog named Blue. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and researching aliens.
Author Links: https://stan.store/authorkwebster
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