Reviewed by Dan

TITLE: Keeping Secrets

SERIES: The Castaways Series Book 3

AUTHOR: Alexa Land

PUBLISHER: Self published

LENGTH: 230 Pages

RELEASE DATE:  June 24, 2019

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The truth can cost you everything.

Twenty-six-year-old Beck Medina is convinced of that. He’s been abandoned by so many people over the course of his life, including most of his adopted family. Now he’s created a new family for himself at the resort he manages on Catalina Island. But they don’t know the whole truth about him.

As much as he hates keeping secrets from the people he loves, he knows revealing the truth is a gamble. What if they all walk away from him, like so many others have before?

Then there’s gorgeous, mysterious Lee Speros. The tall, handsome Greek is harboring secrets too, and some of his are deadly. Just as Beck and Lee take the first tentative steps toward becoming a couple, Lee’s dark past finally catches up to him. The fallout threatens to destroy not only the two of them, but everyone they hold dear.

With impossible odds stacked against them, can two stubborn, fiercely independent men learn to accept help not only from each other, but from the people who care about them? And once they reveal all, will the truth set them free? Or will it cost them everything, just like Beck always feared?

This gay romance is book three in Alexa Land’s Castaways Series, but it may be read as a stand-alone. It is intended for a mature audience.

REVIEW:

As usual when I read a book by this author, I loved every word. I have to apologize for the long delay between reading and reviewing. RL got in the way big time and I dropped the ball, thinking I posted this review immediately!

In this installment of Ms. Land’s newest series, we finally found out what Beck has been doing on his weekends away from Catalina, and I for one was surprised. I didn’t expect the reason, but once you find out what it is, it all makes sense, especially with the upkeep costs on the ranch.

My favorite part of the book was when Beck’s love interest, Lee, comes face to face with Dante Dombruso and the rest of the Dombruso clan. It seems there is a history there, and it isn’t clear for a minute or two who will walk away from the meeting…

As with every book by this author, it was over too soon, leaving me eager to read more. Hopefully that will be coming soon! I can’t tell you much more without giving major spoilers, and I don’t want to do that.

I highly recommend this one, and every single, and I mean EVERY single, word this woman has ever written. I love her and her stories. If you aren’t reading Ms. Land’s works and you call yourself a mm romance reader, you are definitely missing something.

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