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Secret Sins (The Callahans #3)
by
Lora Leigh
Sheriff Archer Tobias has watched the Callahan family struggle to find peace and acceptance in the community—despite the murders that continue to haunt them. But his darkest suspicions grow worse when Anna Corbin, a member of one of the country's most influential families, becomes the next target…
Anna knows she’s in danger. She knows she’s on a trail of secrets and lies th...more
Anna knows she’s in danger. She knows she’s on a trail of secrets and lies th...more
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Published
November 27th 2012
by St. Martin's Paperback
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Lora Leigh books are my favorite guilty pleasure, I look forward to every release. I can't wait for the next book in the series. That said, they would be even better with a really good editor. This had more than the normal (for Lora Leigh) timeline and story inconsistencies, wrong names used, wrong forms of words used, so the sentence doesn't quite make sense, etc. Then there was the love scene from pages 292-294 that was copied & pasted, almost word for word from pages 169-171. What makes t...more
This is the third book in Lora Leigh's Sin series and a huge improvement from book two. This book represents the writing style any Lora Leigh fan has grown to love and the reason we are loyal and dedicated followers.
Lots of answers will be answered in this book that features Sheriff Archer Tobias and Anna Corbin. Lots and lots of steamy scenes to devour along with a few surprise visits from previous hero's in some of her other juicy books.
If our a Lora Leigh fan you won't want to miss this book....more
Lots of answers will be answered in this book that features Sheriff Archer Tobias and Anna Corbin. Lots and lots of steamy scenes to devour along with a few surprise visits from previous hero's in some of her other juicy books.
If our a Lora Leigh fan you won't want to miss this book....more
This could have had such a higher rating if, again, it wasn't for the damn errors in the book. One character's name changes from Gregori to Anatoli, then back to Gregori; at one point, Cami has a conversation with herself, because of naming errors; there is a completely copied scene (and I mean it's identical) that shows up twice in the book; and my personal favourite - Anna is bitching that Archer has never said he loved her when he said it about ten pages earlier!!!!! Come on, book editors......more
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5 Stars
I knew when I started reading the Callahan Brothers series that it would be exciting and unbelievably sexy. It’s Lora Leigh – I wouldn’t expect anything else. What I didn’t count on was how the intrigue and mystery would just suck me in and not let go.
Archer was brought into the Corbin family when Anna was just a little girl. She has always looked up to him and has always loved him. She has saved herself just for Archer – no other man...more
5 Stars
I knew when I started reading the Callahan Brothers series that it would be exciting and unbelievably sexy. It’s Lora Leigh – I wouldn’t expect anything else. What I didn’t count on was how the intrigue and mystery would just suck me in and not let go.
Archer was brought into the Corbin family when Anna was just a little girl. She has always looked up to him and has always loved him. She has saved herself just for Archer – no other man...more
I have always heard great things about Lora Leigh’s books. And, having never read one, I was really excited for the opportunity to experience this one. The verdict? It was…… okay. It’s the third book in Leigh’s Callahan series, and I would highly recommend that you read the series from the start, as I felt I had missed A WHOLE LOT of backstory by beginning in the middle. However, it is not necessary if you’re just looking for a steamy romance novel.
The characters in this book annoyed me. Anna i...more
The characters in this book annoyed me. Anna i...more
Third in the Callahans romantic suspense series revolving around the hard-done-by Callahan cousins. The couple focus is on Anna Corbin, John Corbin's granddaughter, and Sheriff Archer Tobias.
I recommend avoiding this entire series. Borrow it from the library. Borrow it from a friend stupid enough to actually buy this junk. Just don't encourage Leigh to continue writing this. At least, puh-lease, Leigh, do a better job.
My Take
Two points for Leigh's Secret Sins. One, we finally discover the horrib...more
I recommend avoiding this entire series. Borrow it from the library. Borrow it from a friend stupid enough to actually buy this junk. Just don't encourage Leigh to continue writing this. At least, puh-lease, Leigh, do a better job.
My Take
Two points for Leigh's Secret Sins. One, we finally discover the horrib...more
Can you ever go home again?
After being shuffled from one location to another since she was 9 years old Anna Corbin has had enough. Her family will not explain why she cannot stay with them but now that she is an adult, who cares. Her craving for her home included Sheriff Archer Tobias with the ferocity and passion.
Archer has had to wait for Anna to grow up and return, now that she has done both there is no barrier to their future, except the man determined to kill her. Why the "Slasher" has syst...more
After being shuffled from one location to another since she was 9 years old Anna Corbin has had enough. Her family will not explain why she cannot stay with them but now that she is an adult, who cares. Her craving for her home included Sheriff Archer Tobias with the ferocity and passion.
Archer has had to wait for Anna to grow up and return, now that she has done both there is no barrier to their future, except the man determined to kill her. Why the "Slasher" has syst...more
The book blurb pretty much covers everything that I would like to say about the plot so I’m going right to my review…
I know I picked an erotic read but I felt that the erotic encounters overshadowed what was a fantastic story. I ended up skimming over the sexual scenes to read the meat of the plot. I didn’t think I’d ever say this but there were too many repetitively described explicit interaction. Yes, I’m going to say it…it got boring!
Now that I got that out of my system onto the story...I’ve...more
I know I picked an erotic read but I felt that the erotic encounters overshadowed what was a fantastic story. I ended up skimming over the sexual scenes to read the meat of the plot. I didn’t think I’d ever say this but there were too many repetitively described explicit interaction. Yes, I’m going to say it…it got boring!
Now that I got that out of my system onto the story...I’ve...more
I like pretty much every thing lora leigh writes. This story was a little difficult to read because the plot has so many characters to know. If I was reading these one after another it would be easier but when you have to wait for the release its harder to remember who everyone is. Outside of that, the story of Anna who has been in love with Archer since before her family shipped her out of the county at age nine. She returns at age 24 after college determined to stay with the family she loves o...more
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Book three of the Callahan’s series is FINALLY here! I can’t tell you how much I’ve been dying to get back into this series! Leigh has weaved a riveting storyline about the Callahan cousins that were shunned by the whole town for greed. Somebody wanted their land so badly that they decided to kill for it again and again becoming a serial killer known as the slasher; killing every female the three men got involved with to ensure th...more
*Beware of possible spoilers!*
Book three of the Callahan’s series is FINALLY here! I can’t tell you how much I’ve been dying to get back into this series! Leigh has weaved a riveting storyline about the Callahan cousins that were shunned by the whole town for greed. Somebody wanted their land so badly that they decided to kill for it again and again becoming a serial killer known as the slasher; killing every female the three men got involved with to ensure th...more
I tried. I really, really tried. Her last two books in this series were meandering, horribly edited and just plain made no sense at times. Didn't even finish them, they were wallbangers. But I have a weakness for Lora Leigh. She was the first. So I thought I'd give her one more shot.
OMFG. Really. The plot again is meandering and not making sense at points. The characters do things that seem completely at odds with how they were originally presented. But the final straw? At the bottom of page 210...more
OMFG. Really. The plot again is meandering and not making sense at points. The characters do things that seem completely at odds with how they were originally presented. But the final straw? At the bottom of page 210...more
OK, was expecting Crowe's book as a finale (?) to the triolgy, but I guess it's going to be a quad-rology instead :)
This was slightly better than the previous two - but not much.......
OK. Page 5 and we get a typo: Crewe for Crowe.
Pgs 171 and 294 are the end of (an almost identical) sex encounter - (cut and paste?? with a few in-fills???)
Pg 176-8 almost 3 pages of a God Almightly info-dump (and where we are GIVEN the bad guy, carte blanche)
Pg 321 typo of Amelia for Anna (amongst various others)
Pg...more
This was slightly better than the previous two - but not much.......
OK. Page 5 and we get a typo: Crewe for Crowe.
Pgs 171 and 294 are the end of (an almost identical) sex encounter - (cut and paste?? with a few in-fills???)
Pg 176-8 almost 3 pages of a God Almightly info-dump (and where we are GIVEN the bad guy, carte blanche)
Pg 321 typo of Amelia for Anna (amongst various others)
Pg...more
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Just finished Secret Sins. The 3rd installment of the Callahan Series. I was soo hoping that this would be Crowe's book. But it was Archer and Anna's. I didn't think I was going to like it. I mean Archer has been in all the books but only on the side since he was a Sheriff and Anna we only got the smallest glimpse's of her before. And their was never a hint at anything romantic. But all I can say is WOW. Mrs Leigh wove these two characters into the story superbly. Sweet, innocent, loving, gentle...more
Eh... Just, ... Eh. Perhaps my most difficult review to date. I like the series; the idea behind the cousins and the plot to take what was theirs, but this book... goodness, it just took an otherwise good story and well, killed it! Because this is the third in a series based on the same conflict, I am not going to provide a synopsis but rather:
Ana: Wow... You were will the man for about a week and are walking out on him because he didn't say "I love you"??? I guess its not enough that he protect...more
Ana: Wow... You were will the man for about a week and are walking out on him because he didn't say "I love you"??? I guess its not enough that he protect...more
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I love Lora Leigh's books. I love her romance mixed with hot sex. I love her alpha heros. My favorite are her Breed stories, but love the others. See a pattern here - love her stories. Archer had a lot of sexy thoughts about what he wanted to do with Anna, but he never followed though. Not usual for one LL's books. Anna was smart and stubborn, but weak also. I wanted more from her.
This book revels so much of the reasons for the murders. It is essential to the series. I enjoyed it. For some auth...more
This book revels so much of the reasons for the murders. It is essential to the series. I enjoyed it. For some auth...more
So have to read yet another book in this series to find out how it ends? I was REALLY thought this book would be about Crowe, WRONG! Apparently it was time to learn about the sheriff, who up until this point really just popped in and out on occasion. This book was really just awful. I know that sounds terrible and I have guilt over my review but I have to share the truth. The truth is; I am over Lora Leigh. This book had ALL the trappings that have come to annoy me; a overly dominate male, a har...more
In Secret Sins, Lora Leigh takes us back to Corbin County to catch up with the Callihan Cousins, but the book itself focuses on Anna Corbin, another cousin to the Callihan boys, and Archer Tobias, Corbin County's sheriff and ally to the Callihan men.
At the age of 9, Anna was sent away from Corbin County to boarding schools and later an isolated university in California. Now that she's grown and graduated, her family wants her to take a job they arranged for her in France. Confused and frustrate...more
At the age of 9, Anna was sent away from Corbin County to boarding schools and later an isolated university in California. Now that she's grown and graduated, her family wants her to take a job they arranged for her in France. Confused and frustrate...more
And on that note: I am done...Done...DONE!
DNF'd at 50%
I apologize in advance for my rant/review, but what happened to this author? I've loved her Elite Ops and Tempting Seals series. But with this series, each book has been getting progressively worse.
I swear it has become a "if you're read one, you've read them all". It is basically regurgitated drivel. Take a hero and heroine, change their names around, and rinse and repeat. I swear there was a scene that was literary copy and pasted from earl...more
DNF'd at 50%
I apologize in advance for my rant/review, but what happened to this author? I've loved her Elite Ops and Tempting Seals series. But with this series, each book has been getting progressively worse.
I swear it has become a "if you're read one, you've read them all". It is basically regurgitated drivel. Take a hero and heroine, change their names around, and rinse and repeat. I swear there was a scene that was literary copy and pasted from earl...more
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I broke my romantic/erotic suspense "cherry" with one of Mrs. Leigh's books so I will always be a fan of hers. Now that I am a more experienced reader, I can see a pattern in her writing. Some of her more recent writings have been a hit or miss but this book was spot on good! She is so worth spending the extra money on . Most ebooks I buy are in the 3-5 dollar range so most of the time I would shy away from a $7.99 cost. If you like hot hot sex scenes (I mean hot) and an actual plot to boot this...more
This is Sheriff Archer Tobias and Anna Corbin's story. I thought this was the end of a trilogy but it turns out, there is another book in this series coming out later. Again, the editing of this story leaves much to be desired with errors galore, repetitive phrasing and conversations, plus a character name switch in a few instances unless Gregor is Anatoli - I can't quite tell for sure. I enjoyed seeing characters from other series, like Rory and Jordan Malone making cameo appearances (along wit...more
I'm torn on how I feel about this book. In some respects I feel it fell short of the quality of the two other books. I found myself forcing myself to read through many parts just to get through them. I wasn't as interested in the story as I was with Logan and Rafe's stories. I found myself loving the characters of Logan and Rafe while I was merely tolerating Archer as a necessary part of Anna's story.
In other respects I think it out did the book before it. I found the the interactions between A...more
In other respects I think it out did the book before it. I found the the interactions between A...more
I thought The Callahans series is a trilogy but obviously I was wrong because this is NOT Crowe Callahan's story.
The Good:
1. The whole Slasher/inheritance/blackmailed plot finally got interesting.
2. If you're a fan of LL's Elite Ops series, you'll be happy to know that one VERY famous character made a brief cameo, and two others got honorable mention.
3. The love scenes are pretty hot.
The bad:
1. Though it shouldn't become a surprise, the heroine is just plain exhausting.
What I look forward...more
The Good:
1. The whole Slasher/inheritance/blackmailed plot finally got interesting.
2. If you're a fan of LL's Elite Ops series, you'll be happy to know that one VERY famous character made a brief cameo, and two others got honorable mention.
3. The love scenes are pretty hot.
The bad:
1. Though it shouldn't become a surprise, the heroine is just plain exhausting.
What I look forward...more
First let me say that I'm only giving this book 4 stars because of the series its a part of. The story itself was very good and a continuation of a GREAT series. However, the way this book was written was pathetic at best and not at all what I've come to expect from Lora Leigh. There is absolutely, positively NO way this book went through an editing process. There were tons of mistakes and I mean tons. And not just minor ones. Wrong names were used in paragraphs. When it was Anna speaking, the p...more
As much as I love Lora Leigh I'm a little aggravated with this one. First off, at 400 pages it was excessively long. Which wouldn’t normally be a problem except that there was so much repetitiveness that at least 50 to 75 pages could have been taken out from that alone. The first time I came across a scene that starting sound very familiar I chalked it up to tiredness because it was two o’clock in the morning. Then the next night when I got back to reading and got to another part that sounded ve...more
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Didn't realize I picked an erotic read, unfortunately I purchase the whole series, so I had to read it. Was very disappointed with all the sexual scenes. I felt that the erotic encounters overshadowed what was a fantastic story. I ended up skimming over the sexual scenes to read the meat of the plot. I didn’t think I’d ever say this but there were too many repetitively described explicit interaction. Yes, I’m going to say it…it got boring!
Book 3 in the series of 4 (so far). Typical Lora Leigh. Spicy. There were so many characters in this book that I felt like I needed an index and/or family tree just to map out who everyone was. I know Lora Leigh was doing a lot of name dropping from previous black-ops series, and had I not read those books, I would have been completely lost. I think anyone new to her books may be completely lost. Other than that...I liked it and am really looking forward to book #4.
This book started of really good,then towards the middle ,the book dipped for me ,then picked up towards the end.I really wanted to rate this a four star read,but,the heroine really,really got on my second to last nerve.Come on all ready,your family sent you away to school at age nine and you never felt the love,they did not allow you to come home and be with your family.Over and over and over,this was her mantra.
So now we know who the killer/rapist is,but he escaped to the next book comming up,...more
So now we know who the killer/rapist is,but he escaped to the next book comming up,...more
So much was finally revealed; including the Slasher's identity and past and current accomplices of his. But the Callahan's, the Sheriff and their respective girlfriends aren't out of danger yet as once again the Slasher evaded capture.
The true connection between Anna Corbin, "cousin" to Crowe Callahan is also finally revealed; and what an awesome little twist to this story that was.
I've loved Archer Tobias from book one so I was very excited he got his own story with Anna. And man was it a stea...more
The true connection between Anna Corbin, "cousin" to Crowe Callahan is also finally revealed; and what an awesome little twist to this story that was.
I've loved Archer Tobias from book one so I was very excited he got his own story with Anna. And man was it a stea...more
Frustrating! I like the series though complicated to follow, sometimes I felt I was reading the same paragraph over again. Maybe Lora has started just filling in the middle. Or I'm just now noticing it. I like a good steamy sex scene but started to feel gratuitous.
That being said I liked it and want to read Crowe's story but disappointed we have to wait so long because I have a feeling it will be more of the same.
That being said I liked it and want to read Crowe's story but disappointed we have to wait so long because I have a feeling it will be more of the same.
To be honest not my favorite book by her. I really liked Archer though! It really dragged for me in parts, especially when they were getting into the background story, it could get a bit confusing. Finally I found the conclusion really, really lacking with no ending really and too many unknowns still. When I read a book I like it to be a bit more finished and feel satisfied.
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Lora Leigh lives in the rolling hills of Kentucky, often found absorbing the ambience of this peaceful setting. She dreams in bright, vivid images of the characters intent on taking over her writing life, and fights a constant battle to put them on the hard drive of her computer before they can disappear as fast as they appeared. Lora’s family, and her writing life co-exist, if not in harmony, in...more
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“You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.”
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