A Perfect Dilemma (A Perfect Secret Series, #3) by Zoe Dawson

A Perfect Secret Series, #3

New Adult Contemporary Romance and Mystery

Released September 2014

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The one secret she can't stand to keep is the one she can't afford to tell.

The perfect little rich girl, River Pearl Sutton has always done what her family expected of her. She’d become the perfect little beauty queen, the perfect child model and now her global success locks her into a life she never really chose.

Coming home for the summer to prepare for the Founder’s Day Festival, a celebration of her lauded ancestor, she is tasked by her father to write a speech to be delivered at the end of the party.

Returning to Hope Parish brings her back into close proximity with sweet-talking, skirt-chasing Braxton Outlaw, the boy who always seemed immune to her charms in high school. But now he looks at her with those challenging blue eyes, both intimidating and seductive at the same time. Using research of her family lineage and his as way to get close to this bad boy, they fall into a hot, torrid affair.

She stumbles across a terrible secret that could bring to ruin not only her reputation, but the reputation and standing of her family. But when her infatuation with Brax grows into something that she can’t live without, she must decide what to do. Keep the secret and lose Brax or destroy her family and lose them. 

It’s an awful, heartrending perfect dilemma.

OUR REVIEW

4 Stars

Our last Outlaw brother isn't going down commitment lane without a fight. Braxton has only ever wanted one girl, but the princess of Suttenville is the one girl he can't have, his reputation is too bad and he won't see her become like other women who dared love an Outlaw.

River Pearl wants one man and no other has ever compared, with one month before she goes back to New York she's determined to have him. Using the speech her father wants her to write as an excuse she goes after him harder than ever before and won't let his brash attitude deter her any longer.

When she goes through letters, ledgers, journals and more information about both her and Braxtons ancestors she finds out more than she ever bargained for. With the animosity of the town turning on her for her involvement with an Outlaw and her family determined to see her with a "suitable" man it seems everyone is against them can they find a way to be together of will the hatred of the past tear them apart?

River Pearl is a sassy, smart-mouthed, pain in the butt. She wants something and she goes after it, she wants to please her family and it's tearing her apart, but she's determined to find happiness in her life.

Braxton Outlaw. Another Outlaw and he's got his own quirks. As the owner of Outlaw's Bar and Restaurant and not only owns the place, but also cooks the amazing food that comes out of the kitchen. He also, like any rebel bad boy, he plays in a band. He's an alpha male who's determined not to let the reputation the outlaws have in town bring him down, but he also won't bring anyone down with him.

These two are push and pull, fighting hard but loving harder. I enjoyed seeing their troubles and how they each worked through them in their own ways finding happiness when the odds were against them.

About the Author

Zoe Dawson is the alter ego of Karen Anders, award winning, multi-published author. Her writing journey started with poetry and branched out into fiction. With a couple of college English courses under her belt, she penned a historical, then moved onto contemporary romance fiction. Today, she is happy producing romantic suspense, romantic mystery, urban fantasy and paranormal novels. The words feed her soul and the happily ever afters feed her heart.

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A Perfect Secret, Book #2

How can they have a future when their past is based on a lie?
The perfect preacher’s daughter, Verity Fairchild, has something that only she and God know about and she wants to keep it that way. Her mistake was easy to keep secret when she was out of town, but now that she’s come back to Hope Parish for the summer, she comes face-to-face with the guy responsible for it all. Boone Outlaw nearly ruined everything for her and despite the fact that he’s now working at her father’s church, she’s determined to stay as far away from him as possible.
Boone Outlaw doesn’t understand Verity’s anger towards him. He barely knows her. In high school she was Holy Mary Verity and she was off limits – except in his dreams where Verity seems way too real. Most of the time he was wasted in high school, not the type of boy Verity would ever look at twice, but he can’t shake the feeling that something might have happened between them. He’s going to break his own rules to get the answers he needs straight from Verity.
What will Verity do when she finds something in Boone that she never knew existed and her perfect mistake is the only thing that could stand between them and their happiness? Will she sacrifice Boone to keep her secret?

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A Perfect Secret, Book #1

I know what you did last summer.
Aubree Walker, the perfect girl most likely to succeed, is sure there’s only one person who knows what she did.
Booker Outlaw, one of the three Outlaw brothers—all identical, all gorgeous, all from the wrong side of the tracks, and all pure bad boys. He was always the unpredictable one, the one who would be brash enough to make it big self-publishing horror novels on the internet. He promised never to tell, but everyone knows you can never trust an Outlaw.
Then a year later, in the middle of the night, she receives a phone call at Tulane. Her aunt, who took her in after her mother’s death, is in a coma under suspicious circumstances. Now she has to face that one person who knows all about what she did that summer—sexy Booker.
Returning to Hope Parish to be with her aunt, stirs up all those ugly memories. When Aubree starts getting threats, she can’t help but wonder if what she did last summer was tied to her aunt’s “accident.” Afraid, she turns to the only person who knows the truth and Booker doesn’t hesitate to offer his broad shoulder for her to lean on. But Booker has a secret of his own that could crush their fledgling relationship.
As the hot, sultry summer days move on, she finds that even a perfectly smart girl can lose her heart to a perfectly bad boy. What is she going to do when someone starts asking questions Aubree doesn’t want to answer? She’s knee deep into a terribly dangerous, wholly life changing, who-can-she-really-depend-on perfect mess.