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Burning Secrets: Deadly Secrets Texas Trilogy - Book 2 Paperback – November 18, 2024
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She’ll do anything to catch a polluter. He’ll do anything to stop her.
Undercover Texas PI Brock Emerson has one job—to keep chemical engineer Adelaide Reese from shutting down his client’s paper mill. But he had no idea how tempting the beautiful scientist would be. Or how much he’d want to protect her…
Set on proving pollution from the mill is poisoning the local town, Adelaide is making powerful enemies. And when angry mill employees stage a violent attack, Brock can’t help stepping in to save her.
Posing as a journalist, he wins her trust. Then they witness a murder that makes Brock question both his employer and his moral compass…and sends them running for their lives.
When the woman he’s falling for learns he’s been lying to her all along, Brock finds himself in a position he never imagined. Will doing his job cost him his integrity and his heart? Or will they both pay the ultimate price for crossing a master manipulator?
Burning Secrets is a standalone, enemies-to-lovers, small town, romantic suspense novel. The books in the Deadly Secrets Texas Trilogy can be read in any order.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 18, 2024
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.62 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-13979-8985891249
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- ASIN : B0DJNGYW79
- Publisher : Crimes & Passion, LLC (November 18, 2024)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8985891249
- Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.62 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,227,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,652 in Small Town Romance (Books)
- #5,247 in Enemies to Lovers Romance
- #18,625 in Western & Frontier Romance
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Denise was raised by her oil man father, who was fifty-three when she was born. He took Denise with him almost everywhere he went. Instead of cheerleading camp and home economics class, she grew up in her father’s office and in the oilfields, a world away from the nearest charm school.
After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in geology, she went to work in her father's business. In the early months of at her job, she attended a meeting where the topic was a missing landowner, the countless efforts to locate the woman over the past months, and the serious legal ramifications of the company’s inability to find her or her heirs. Denise excused herself from the meeting, slipped into her office, and started making phone calls to funeral homes near the well location. In fifteen minutes, she was on the woman’s trail and had found her heirs by the end of the week. That single experience changed the trajectory of her entire career.
While Denise was one of the few professional women working on drilling sites in the Texas oil fields in the 1980s, the attorney working to resolve the problem with the missing landowner she'd found reminded her that moving over to the land department meant working in air-conditioned courthouses and sleeping in motels instead of trudging around rattlesnake-infested drilling locations, sleeping in her car, and eating cold Hunger Busters for breakfast. It wasn’t a hard decision. As a landman, Denise bought and sold oil and gas real estate and examined land titles across West Texas and the Texas Gulf Coast. But mostly…she found missing landowners.
Finding people and evidence and unmasking secrets and hidden information were Denise’s one true professional love. In 1995, she got her private investigator’s license and started Aardvark Investigations. As a private investigator and forensic genealogist, she specialized in the location of missing heirs and mineral owners for oil companies and law firms across the country.
Now retired, Denise brings her investigative experience to historical true crime and writes novels inspired by cases and experiences from her colorful career. Decades of discovering hidden secrets and unraveling complex family histories have left her with a lot of stories to write.
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Customers find the book engaging with its suspenseful plot and unexpected twists and turns. They praise the writing quality as excellent, with strong and capable main characters. The characters are described as fascinating and well-developed, with clever and humorous use of situations. Overall, readers describe the story as self-contained without cliffhangers.
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Customers enjoy the suspenseful, thrilling adventure with its surprising twists and turns. They find the self-contained story engaging, free of cliffhangers. The fast-paced narrative features murder, deceit, and a shocking ending. The book contains no profanity, explicit love scenes, and flawless proofreading.
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Customers enjoy the book's writing quality. They praise the strong, capable main characters and the talented author. The book contains explicit love scenes and flawless proofreading.
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2024This is the third book by Denise Diana Huddle that I’ve read with pleasure from cover to cover (the other two were Anthrax to Zodiac, a true crime anthology; and Stolen Secrets, the first novel in this Deadly Secrets Texas Trilogy). Let me first say that Huddle is a skilled author who understands all the things necessary to keep a reader fully engaged: a fast-paced plot, fully developed and fascinating characters, and clever/funny use of language. I’ve enjoyed these features in all of Huddle’s writings, which is why I was eagerly awaiting the release of this book, Burning Secrets.
At its simplest, Burning Secrets is about a man and a woman who initially seem to have come together accidentally in the midst of a crisis over an explosion at a local paper mill. But far more is lurking beneath the surface, as Huddle gradually teases out many layers of complexity hidden beneath the surface of both Brock and Adelaide, our hero and heroine. I don’t want to spoil anything with further details, but I just have to say I was quickly turning the pages, led by my desire to see what secret aspects of their lives would be revealed next and rise to the level of obstacle preventing their romantic union. There is just the right amount of tasteful spiciness in their physical relationship for me — not enough that we have to imagine what goes on behind closed doors, but also not so much that it overwhelms the story.
The book has a lot of Texas in it, which Huddle can describe so accurately given her status as a native. It’s a joy to feel like you’re being submerged into a truthfully represented environment and culture. The mystery at the core of the book is resolved with a surprise ending that I never guessed, but which was more than plausible once I considered the earlier chapters. The characters are sympathetic, and you can’t help but root for them to find a way to make it work together. And a cute dog gave me many “awww” moments! All in all, I’m so pleased by this book and hope many more are yet to come.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2025This was an excellent written book that keeps you wanting to read more til you finish the book. There are lots of twist and turns. The main character are very interesting to learn about and see how they react at very change in the story line. Brock Emerson has to learn to trust people around him and not jump to the wrong conclusion everytime he is told something by his parnter boss. It takes him along time to come to the right answers about his parnter as well as Adelaide Reese. They both have alot of issue that need to be worked on. If you are interested in a good book with lots of different issues then this is the book for you. I hope that Denise Diane Huddle continues to written excellent books like she has done so far.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2024I read dozens of novels every year and can usually unravel a plot fairly easily, but not this time. Burning Secrets is an exciting roller-coaster ride, filled with surprising twists and turns that kept me glued to my Kindle to the very last page.
I don't want to spoil anything with a plot summary, so you can just read the blurb and dive right into the story. Hang on for a nail-biting adventure, chock full of suspense, danger, evil villains, a shocking big reveal, and a perfect ending that is well worth the ride. Seriously. It's that good!
Kudos for immersive settings, limited profanity (no f-bombs), a couple of non-explicit love scenes, and flawless proofreading. I look forward to reading more books by this very talented author.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2024Plot: 5📍
Spice: 1❤️
Overall: 4.5🌟
Sass: 4 👌
Adelaide, a ChemE, stumbles across the worst environmental situation and takes it head on. Think, Erin Brockovich, but with multiple college degrees and a ton of chemistry!
Brock, a PI is working for the opposing team but there's so many secrets.
I love that Ms. Huddle always writes strong, capable MCs, both male and female who combine their strengths, complimenting one another, saving each other.
Does Adelaide find her self as a damsel in distress? Yes, but she holds her own, has a wicked skill set, and is able to think quickly on her feet. Is Brock the one to save her? Indeed he is! However, our knight in tarnished armor ends up relying on Adelaide after the fact.
The action literally starts off with a bang (explosion on page one!) and doesn't let up. You'll catch yourself racing through the story just as fast as our MCs race for their lives!
Despite a couple phrases, I personally felt overused a little, it wasn't enough to detract from the story.
I couldn't put this down! And I can't WAIT for the next book!
5.0 out of 5 starsPlot: 5📍Ms. Huddle's 3rd book and she comes out swinging!!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2024
Spice: 1❤️
Overall: 4.5🌟
Sass: 4 👌
Adelaide, a ChemE, stumbles across the worst environmental situation and takes it head on. Think, Erin Brockovich, but with multiple college degrees and a ton of chemistry!
Brock, a PI is working for the opposing team but there's so many secrets.
I love that Ms. Huddle always writes strong, capable MCs, both male and female who combine their strengths, complimenting one another, saving each other.
Does Adelaide find her self as a damsel in distress? Yes, but she holds her own, has a wicked skill set, and is able to think quickly on her feet. Is Brock the one to save her? Indeed he is! However, our knight in tarnished armor ends up relying on Adelaide after the fact.
The action literally starts off with a bang (explosion on page one!) and doesn't let up. You'll catch yourself racing through the story just as fast as our MCs race for their lives!
Despite a couple phrases, I personally felt overused a little, it wasn't enough to detract from the story.
I couldn't put this down! And I can't WAIT for the next book!
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2024This book offers a gripping and fast-paced narrative, rich in murder, deceit, and romance. The self-contained story, free of cliffhangers, is appealing. I anticipate book three with interest.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2024This second book is just as good if not better than the first. I can't wait to see what the third brings to the table.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025I read a LOT of fiction, and can usually see "whodunnit" and why pretty early in a story. There is a level of complexity that kept me engaged until the very end. The author seems to know her subject matter, and the character of the people and places she writes about. That shines through here and makes it so easy to get lost in the story. Can't wait for the next book!
- Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2024Another intense book in the Deadly Secrets Trilogy. Book Two has Adelaide trying to prove the local paper mill’s explosion was an industrial accident and not just a simple fire. However the undercover private investigator, Brock, is trying to protect his client. There’s a lot of distrust between the two until they are forced to work together.
This is a fast-paced, intense story with murder and intrigue to keep you turning pages. There’s some romance, deceit, and threats; and then throw in an endearing dog, and you have the perfect combination for a good read. The characters are well developed and the storyline is well plotted.
I would definitely recommend this book and am looking forward to Book 3.