A MILLION DIRTY SECRETS – C.L. Parker
Million Dollar Duet , Book
Bantam Trade PB
ISBN: 978-0-345-54876-4
September 2013
Erotic Contemporary

Chicago, Illinois – Present Day

Lanie Talbot is desperate to save her mother who is dying from cancer. Lanie's father just lost his job—and their health insurance—and is at the edge of financial destruction. Lanie decides to offer her virginal body up for sale to the highest bidder at an exclusive nightclub that specializes in selling sex slaves to rich men. To her surprise, she ends up being bought for two million dollars by a young, handsome billionaire, Noah Crawford, and in exchange, she is his sex slave for the next two years. Within an hour, he forces her to perform oral sex on him, and Lanie's responsibility as his whore is set. Noah pushes Lanie to the brink sexually, and she has the guts to fight him back, which in turn excites him. Yet, as the days and nights of being his personal sex slave continue, Noah and Lanie soon grow closer. Will an attraction of more than just the sexual kind begin?

Probably the best way to describe the characters of Lanie and Noah is to understand their motivations of why they entered into a sex slave contract in the first place. Lanie loves her parents, and the devastating toll the cancer is taking on them is heart wrenching for her to watch. They haven't a clue that their only child has sold herself as a whore to a man. Lanie has little experience in sex—her beauty and sassiness attracts men like Noah, yet no one had claimed her virginity until Noah. Lanie wonders at first why a rich and handsome man like Noah needs to buy a sex slave, but it takes a while before the truth comes out. He was betrayed by a woman he thought he loved when she had sex (in their house) with his business partner. Noah now distrusts getting involved with a woman for fear of getting his heart broken again. Instead, he will have his own personal sexual partner who is at his beck and call, plus be available to appear with him at social functions, and she will be someone he doesn't have to get emotionally involved with. But Lanie breaches his emotions—and soon he finds himself loving her spirit and sensuality. But will falling in love with each other unwittingly play into their relationship?

As noted earlier in this review, the sex scenes start right off the bat in A MILLION DIRTY SECRETS. Most of the contact between Noah and Lanie ends up in some type of sexual act, whether it is oral or when he breaches her virginity. Noah isn't cruel, but his determination to not allow his heart to get involved makes him seem coldhearted in A MILLION DIRTY SECRETS. On the other hand, Lanie will garner sympathy as the young twenty-something woman who gave up her life and body to a stranger for two years in order to save her family.

The sex is fast, furious and frequent in A MILLION DIRTY SECRETS and may not be for everyone. This is the first tale in the Million Dollar Duet series, with book two, A MILLION GUILTY PLEASURES, due out in February 2014. If you like your sex dirty and passionate, then A MILLION DIRTY SECRETS just might be for you.

Holly Tibbs