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December 06, 2014

Dirty Secret by Emma Hart ~ Blog Tour & Review


Release Date: Dec 1, 2014




Synopsis:
Conner Burke never expected Sofie Callahan to come back.
Where she’s been for the last two and half years is a mystery, and so is the reason she left in the first place. Now, though, she’s back in their hometown of Shelton Bay, South Carolina, at the same time Conner’s band Dirty B is home on a tour break.
Sofie Callahan has spent the months since her father’s death avoiding anything to do with her home town. But with her brother in Afghanistan, she has no choice but to return and sort out her father’s house, even if it means facing the boy she fell in love with and revealing the reason she left.
Conner has questions, and when his broken heart and her guilty one collide, Sofie has to start answering them. Their present is rocky, their future unknown. Only one thing is certain:
Sofie’s daughter will change everything.


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Review by Tatia

Just from the first few pages, I knew I was going to love this book. Emma Hart has a way with words that immediately pull you in. Her books become your addiction. You just can't get enough. You don't want to stop until the very last page. 

Sophie Callahan is back, but not by choice. Her father passed away a few months before and she knows it's about time that she deals with his estate. But being back in town also means dealing with the past, revealing a secret that could possibly push everyone further apart if that's even possible. 
Connor Burke is the lead singer of the Dirty B's. Having a short break from touring, he's glad to be able to go home and just relax, until he realizes that Sophie Callahan is back. Then, all he can think about is confronting her. 

I know have a new obsession. The Dirty B's. Everything about them has me wanting this story to never end. Hilarious, eye-roll inducing, pain in the butt men who you can't help but love. Emma Hart does not disappoint   I laughed out loud, found my eyes misty with tears, and sighing with contentment when all was said and done. I loved every minute of it. 
 5 Stars 

Review By Amy 

This book was a fantastic introduction to all things Emma Hart!!! Dirty Secret was my first Hart book and I LOVED IT!!! Witty and sweet yet sultry and seductive, it had all the right elements in it to make me want for more. I absolutely fell in love the Burke brothers and I know you will too!!!

“Absolutely, I agree. It’s much harder to hate you when you’re melting in my arms and whimpering”…..TOTALLY loved this!!! The snarky banter between Conner and Sofie was superb and totally entertaining. You could visualize the turmoil and love in their relationship through the one liners and comebacks. This had me aching for more and I couldn’t put the book down. The book was very easy to read and offered just the right amount of angst as well as relationship gushiness.

The characters were FANTASTIC!!! I loved meeting the Dirty B boys and one by one they staked a claim in my heart. They were pure grit and all American rolled up in a sultry spanktastic package just waiting to be unwrapped! Emma did a fantastic job with the ladies in this book as well. All spit fire and sass made them unmistakingly captivating. Especially the smallest Dirty Diva herself…pure sweet and squishy love!!!

100% recommend this book and give it 5*!!!  I really enjoyed the ease of reading this book and can’t wait for more Burke boys. This is a fantastic intro to this amazing new series. Read, savor and enjoy all things Dirty!!

                                                  5 Stars 


Review by Heather 

Connor Burke- rock star and member of the uber popular band he has with his brothers, Dirty B, is at the top of his game. He has money, he has fame and he has is family. The only thing he doesn’t have is the love of his life who left without an explanation or a trace 2 years earlier.

Sophie Callaghan thought that leaving her hometown, her ill father and Connor Burke behind was the right decision at the time. Though she loved Connor with all of heart Sophie had a secret that could destroy everyone.

Sophie’s father passes away and she is forced to go back to her home town of Shelton Bay, South Carolina to settle her affairs.  It just so happens that Connor is home for a tour break at the same time. Will Sophie’s secret ruin everything?

I seriously loved loved loved loved this book! The characters were amazing- Connor seriously adorable and so swoon worthy and Sophie was just so strong and determined to do the right thing for everyone else regardless of her feelings.

Dirty Secret is a fast, easy read with some plot twists that keep you glued to the pages. This was the first book I read by Emma Hart and I am hooked. Totally am in awe of her writing style and cannot wait to read more of her work. 


4.5 Stars 





Author Bio
By day, New York Times and USA Today bestselling New Adult author Emma Hart dons a cape and calls herself Super Mum to two beautiful little monsters. By night, she drops the cape, pours a glass of whatever she fancies - usually wine - and writes books.

Emma is working on Top Secret projects she will share with her followers and fans at every available opportunity. Naturally, all Top Secret projects involve a dashingly hot guy who likes to forget to wear a shirt, a sprinkling (or several) of hold-onto-your-panties hot scenes, and a whole lotta love.
She likes to be busy - unless busy involves doing the dishes, but that seems to be when all the ideas come to life.

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EXCERPT:
That kid that could be mine.
I get up and let the empty bottle drop to the floor. The woods are eerily quiet, as if it can sense my anger. As if it knows the bitterness that lingers in my veins, as if it knows the burn of not knowing anything.
Like the woods, I’m left in the dark. Completely.
Branches and twigs crunch under my feet as I increase my pace to a gentle jog. And again, to a slow run. Then to a sprint.
The need to know increases with every footstep, as evenly paced as the ticking of the clock. It doesn’t matter that I’ve probably drunk too much beer to be here or that we’ve only been back for a matter of days.
I can’t be in this shithole full of memories without knowing. I can’t move on until I know. I can’t forgive her for a single fucking thing until I know—and even then, maybe I won’t be able to.
Maybe she’s unforgivable.
Instead of knocking on the back door like I did yesterday, I round the side of the house to the front door. The front room light glows softly through the curtains, but the rest of the house is dark.
My chest heaves with the exertion of my run here and I grab the doorframe to balance myself. I’m definitely too fucking drunk for this conversation, but what the hell.
I bang on the door, once, twice, again and again and again. “Sofie! Open the fuckin’ door!”
“Shut up!” she hisses, yanking it open. “The hell’re you doing here?”
I smirk, leaning against the wall. “Shouldn’t I be askin’ you that, princess?”
“Are you drunk?” Her voice rises a little at the end, and her eyes widen.
Those eyes. Fuck, those baby blues that have always undone me.
“Drunk? No. If I was drunk I’d be sitting at home like a miserable bastard and not here facing the cause of my misery.”
“You’re being an asshole. I don’t have to listen to this.”
She pushes on the door, but I wedge my foot in front of it. I let go of the wall and grab the edge of the door.
“Actually, you do.”
She can’t overpower me, and she knows it, because she lets up and the door swings open. “Why are you here, Conner?”
“You have a kid.”
She smacks her lips together. “Yep.”
“When? When did you have her?”
Sofie takes a deep breath in and presses her hands to her stomach. They’re shaking, even as she links her fingers to hide it. I can see that fucking tremble.
She whispers something but I’m too pre-occupied by her hands to hear it.
“What?”
“August last year,” she repeats, still a whisper.
August. Last year. My stomach clenches as I meet her eyes. “When? When in fuckin’ August, Sofie?”
“August fifteenth.” Her voice hitches halfway through the ‘fifteenth.’
Almost seven months to the day she walked out on me and the rest of Shelton Bay.
Adrenaline hums through my body, and I stare at her. At the tears building in her eyes, the quiver of her lips, the bob of her throat as she swallows harshly.
It’s no different from the burn in my chest, the twisting of my stomach.
“Is she mine?”
She shudders and a tear drips from her eye.
“Sofie. Is. She. Mine?!”






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