One last client
A week at a beautiful chateau in the south of France – it should be a straightforward final job for Dora. She’s a smart, stunning and discreet escort and Daniel has paid for her services before. This time, all she has to do is convince the assembled guests that she is his girlfriend. Dora is used to playing roles and being whatever men want her to be. It’s all about putting on a front.
One last chance
It will be a last, luxurious look at how the other half lives, before Dora turns her back on the escort world and all its dangers. She has found someone she loves and trusts. With him, she can escape the life she’s trapped in. But when Dora arrives at the chateau, it quickly becomes obvious that nothing is what it seems…
One last secret
Dora finds herself face to face with a man she has never forgotten, the one man who really knows her. And as old secrets surface, it becomes terrifyingly apparent that one last secret could cost Dora her life…
I'd like to thank HQ for inviting me to be a part of this blog tour and for my copy of One Last Secret to review via NetGalley.
When Dora decides that she's giving up escort work after a terrifying encounter with a new client and an interesting proposition from her friend, she's approached with one final job that she reluctantly agrees to work. After all it's an all-expenses trip to a French Chateau with one of her former clients to accompany him as his 'girlfriend'. But it's a decision that she will soon come to regret as nothing is as it seems.
From the outset we are aware of what it is that Dora does for a living, although it's not until much later on in the book that we discover how she came to be in that line of work. It's very much a job that has come from necessity after all it's not exactly a job that you'd have said at careers day at school that you would want to do when you grow up.
No sooner do they arrive does Dora realise she might have made the biggest mistake of her life as she spots a face that she hoped to never see again. And then things just go from strange to surreal which has Dora questioning everything that she believes to be true.
The majority of the story is narrated from Dora's viewpoint which gives us an insight into her lifestyle and background and how she's able to compartmentalise her every thought and action. The more I learned about her, the more I warmed to her and was rooting for everything to turn out OK for her despite some of her questionable decisions.
I will admit that it took me a little while to settle into the book, and at times I found it to be a bit too outlandish but considering the themes explored they're probably not that extreme, but from the midway point I was gripped trying to figure out exactly what the heck was going on. Every time I thought I had it worked out something would come along and make me think differently.
Overall I found One Last Secret to be a tense and complex read with some seriously dark topics at its core. But ultimately it's a twisted story of power and revenge with a final surprise twist in the epilogue that certainly shocked me.
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