{Review} Hottest Mess (S.I.N. #2) by J. Kenner (@JulieKenner @PenguinRandom)

No one can know about our love—and hiding only makes it hotter.

Dallas Sykes has a reputation. He is known for his parties, his money, and the countless women on his arm. Yet the Dallas I know is a different man—darker, smarter, and unbearably sexy. Just one look from him can leave me breathless; the anticipation of his touch can make me lose control.

Inextricably bound by our past, we keep each other’s secrets. And while there are people who have the power to hurt us, it’s the truth that threatens us most of all. 

Dallas can be mine only behind closed doors, our passion as searing as it is forbidden. Yet nothing in this world has ever felt so desperately, deliciously right.

​Jane Martin and Dallas Sykes are done denying the feelings that they have for each other.  Even though they aren’t related by blood, as adopted siblings their love would shatter their family and their lives as they know it.
 
Even though Jane knows that she is the only one truly knows Dallas, watching him keep up the façade as the “King of Fuck” is killing her inside and there’s only so much that a woman can take.
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Dallas always knew that Jane would be the only who would ever hold his heart but his body is still held captive.  Held captive by a nameless woman who still haunts his memory and blackens his soul. 
 
Jane is the only one who is willing to walk into the darkness with him.  She knows about the inner demons that threaten to overtake him and yet still she stands by him with unwavering strength.
 
But when she uncovers the final secret that Dallas has been keeping from her, it could turn out to be the one blow that she can never recover from.

For seventeen years, we fought a battle against desire, but that is over now.  Neither of us can fight any longer, and we have succumbed to heaven in each other’s arms.
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It’s a forbidden love, a hidden passion.

It’s a secret, and it has to stay that way.

But secrets scare me, because things hidden in the dark have power.

Dallas and I know that better than anyone.

So even though I’m happier now than I have ever been, I am also more frightened than I can ever remember. 

Because I fully understand the stakes now.

I know the power of secrets.

And I’m terribly afraid that our secret is going to destroy us.

Have you ever read a series that started out strong and then somehow goes off track only to fizzle slowly out?  That is so NOT what you experience when you read these books from J. Kenner!
 
With Hottest Mess, she raises the stakes and turns up the heat to such tantalizing levels that it will make you wildly ravenous for more. 
 
Dallas and Jane have officially reached icon status and I will be obsessively counting the days (88!!) until the release of Sweetest Taboo…

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