Jane Martin and Dallas Sykes are brother and sister by law and adoption, but not in blood. Their bond started the night Dallas was dropped off at his Uncle Eli Sykes house by his birth mother, who was unable to care for him. When Eli adopts Dallas as his own, it made Jane his step-sister.

After a troubling few years, 15 year old Dallas is sent away to London for school. When Jane goes to visit him, he sneaks out of his dorm room to see her. The pair are kidnapped and held for ransom. While going through this traumatic experience of their abduction, the two get even closer, perhaps a bit too close. Once rescued, Jane and Dallas struggle to come to terms with what happened to them and why. Ultimately they go their separate ways and over the years keep distance between them.

Now 17 years later, Jane is an author of an abduction series with happy endings. Jane's therapy for what happened to her and Dallas is on the pages of her books. She wants to fight the illegal organizations who endanger children with their rescue attempts for profits. She feels responsible for the botched rescue attempt made on the location where she was kept and the loss of lives by the vigilante rescue team her step-father Eli had hired to find Dallas. She has always carried the burden that it was her fault she was released and Dallas was held for an additional three weeks.

Dallas has handled his abduction in a entirely different way. Also known as the "King of Fuck," a reputation he has been building for years, he has a list of women that have been touched by him miles long. He is also head of the secret organization, Deliverance. With a few men he trusts, his organization is untraceable. Its purpose was originally to locate the people who kidnapped him and Jane. However, now it has evolved to help bring other kidnapped children home safely. The exact organization Jane wants to fight against and bring down.

DIRTIEST SECRET was a chance to gamble with a taboo forbidden love that I feel only Julie Kenner could pull off. Her characters are impeccably written and her story line has enough sexual tension, and steamy sex scenes to keep readers glued to its pages. Each character has been trying to live their lives after their ordeal, but without each other, they have just been surviving. Their love and passion for each other is what these two need into order to move on. DIRTIEST SECRET is everything I have come to love from Julie Kenner. There is suspense, sexual tension, and a cliffhanger at the end that leaves me wanting more!

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