Secrets of the Heart

by Candace Camp

Book Overview

Secrets of the Heart by Candace Camp released on Dec 27, 2005 is available now for purchase. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155166657X
• ISBN13: 9781551666570
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

loved it

I thought it was a very good read, I liked the fact that the heroine was very proper in the beginning but then became adventurous as the story progressed. I have not read the first two books in this series, so I wasn't bored with going over what went on there. The scene where she tricks her naked husband and locks him out of her room at the inn was so funny. The husband spends a lot of the book being jealous, which is very statisfying.

Very Very Good!

SECRETS OF THE HEART is a very good end to the series of SO WILD A HEART and THE HIDDEN HEART! I recommend you begin the series with the first book as all the stories are closely connected. All three books are easy to read regency romances with a flare of mystery.

expected it to be as bad as the reviews.........

and I'm so glad I'd bought it before I saw them. I loved this book!!. I normally buy books with 4 and 5 star rating and this book has taught me my error. I bought it as I liked the synopsis then got home, read the reviews and thought I'd made a terrible mistake. So after reading the other 2 in the trilogy I sat down last night to give it a go. And after putting it down to reluctantly go to bed , finished it this morning. Yes I admit I was dreading the part when Michael would have to pretended to be his illegitimate half brother !! but it was really OK. I think it helped as you are lead to beleive that in the other 2 books everyone in the family can see the love growing in Rachel for Michael apart from the couple themselves. When ever they are in a room together the chemistry is there but they are so shy like awkward teenagers that they never seem to be able to look each other in the eye. So I found it possible that Rachel never really saw the real man and could have been hoodwinked easily. Now I just have to find another book that will hook me as quickly and I can be very hard to please.

So much better than any reviewer indicated!!

I am so glad I do not select my books by some of the negative reviews given here. I had just completed Devin and Miranda's story and was so happy I had already purchased the book on Michael and Rachel. First off, I love series books, if done well, and the characters are able to be developed so thoroughly that one really comes to care about them in depth. Just enough of Michael and Rachel was in the first book that you immediately loved and cared about both of them and so wanted them to have the love that other siblings had. This couple just got off on the wrong foot so to speak, and neither seemed gusty enough to break out from the pattern they had established. A pattern of stilted awkwardness had developed when either got to close or things became to intiment - and both were so wanting this to change. Rachel had become much less afraid and more gutsy, perhaps because of her sisters, and Rachel and Michael - well the fact that he had this double life and really was able to be a different person - and when Rachel stumbled on this other person -James, and found Michael's alter ego the man she always wanted to love and desperately wanted to make love to --well finally the ice melts for this couple and 7 long years later they have passion. The mystery that surronded their lives was just enough to intrigue the reader without taking away from what was the main story - their developing love story. I don't really understand how anyone could feel this a dull read - as part of this overall series I could only, happily give it 5 wonderful stars!! Now I am off to Richard - who apparently has already found a second chance at love.

a funny and sexy dilemma

I thought the book was sexy and funny. The dilemma these two have gotten themselves into is funny at times and sexy in the old fashioned way that forbidden attraction is sexy. This is missing today where so little is forbidden.I liked Rachel's role as an innocent, but married, lady socialite who watches at her more outspoken and confident freinds, then breaks free of her role as an unproductive woman without compromising her principles. I like her honesty when she says, " I do not think Michael would assume that I could do anything difficult, either,. I never have, so I cannot think why he would think I could."Michael introduces his wife to passion while he is disguised as his brother. This is a case of two people who should know each other intimately, but do not, and have finally become intimate after years of marriage. It is infidelity with your spouse. So It is morally all right. We get the the excitement of an affair without the fallout, the loss of respect for the characters involved and the comedy provided by a husband who assumes a certain right to boss his wife around and a wife who ignores the authority of the disguised husband she does not recognize. This is the first book I have read by Candace Camp so I have nothing to compare to, but I will be reading more books by the author. I do not hesitate to put a book down that does not draw me in. This book held my attention and imagination, and I enjoyed the story to the end.