On any other day this would be totally fine. He lifts the bottom of his jersey, using it to wipe away the sweat dripping down his face. Queenie with her secret from the past, and Ryan with his ex and meddling 'mom'.

But I also loved that they both had relationship hang up's as well. It also hints as to what the next book may be about, and I'm curious how that will work. It adds an interesting, unpredictable arc to his character that I thoroughly enjoyed. He gets why his grandparents adopted him (his mom was 15 when she had him). I love that while its a big thing, its also not. Ryan finding out his big sister is in fact, his birth mother. But the biggest, and most unique plot point, was 'Mom-ster'. The issues Queenie deals with because of this are settle, but nonetheless have an impact on her character. Not because her mother died, which is what happens in most books, but because her mother didn't want to be a mother. Once again, we get a bit of a gender swap, with Queenie being raised by her father.

Then there is their personal family situations. The dynamic worked for me, and was refreshing. So its refreshing to have a male character, that has a female bring him out of his shell a bit. It doesn't happen often where I encounter a romance where the male is the rule follower. But what I loved that was different with this book, was the gender swap of the 'goody two shoes' main character, and the unique family situations Ryan and Queenie find themselves in. A Secret for a Secret has great dimensional characters, with intense chemistry, and wonderful arcs. And I can repeat the things I liked about the other two books in the series.

A secret for a secret by helena hunting