No More Secrets: A Novel

Written by Kerry Lonsdale

Narrated by Alexander Cendese, Cassandra Morris and Eileen Stevens

A young man seeks redemption from his past in the third novel from the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.

After serving six months in a juvenile detention center, Lucas Carson returns home irrevocably changed by what happened there. Traumatized, Lucas shuts himself out from everyone he loves, even his younger sister, Lily, who ran away from home when she was pregnant at sixteen. When Lily resurfaces years later, Lucas can’t cope with his guilt about not being there for her. He takes off, only to cross paths with Shiloh Bloom—fifteen, homeless, and, like Lucas, escaping the past.

All Lucas sees in her is the little sister he neglected. Believing this is his chance to absolve past mistakes, he takes Shiloh in. He gives her food and shelter. She gives him a purpose. Together they invent a background for her and form a bond. But the risk of discovery grows. Lucas’s sisters aren’t the only ones looking for him. So are Shiloh’s mother and the police. If Lucas wants to heal and have a future, he must stop running and face everything he’s left behind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Mar 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9781799798392

Kerry Lonsdale

Kerry Lonsdale is the Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Kindle bestselling author of Everything We Keep and All the Breaking Waves. She resides in Northern California with her husband and two children. Learn more about Kerry at www.kerrylonsdale.com.

Reviews for No More Secrets

[grandmacootie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

No More Secrets is another magnificent ending to another magnificent trilogy by magnificent author Kerry Lonsdale. Is that enough magnificents? Seriously, this author just pulls you in and teases you with connections and coincidences and memories and makes you hope so hard for everything to work out. But has there ever been a more dysfunctional family, every bit of that dysfunction the fault of their parents Charlotte and Dwight Carson. Horrible, despicable, detestable. There aren’t enough words to describe them. They should never have had children. Their children were nothing more than possessions to them. And their behavior, their neglect, their cruelty, their manipulation had terrible, terrible consequences for all three of the Carson children. Even when they were happy on their annual summer vacation at the lake with the Whitmans, in the only place they were ever really relaxed and happy, that was merely a temporary escape. They always had to return to their real lives with their parents. Parents who sowed the seeds of discord and suspicion among their children because it benefitted them, served their purpose. In No More Words, the first book in the trilogy, we learned how Olivia suffered and withdrew into herself. Her sister Lily had left home as a teenager and Olivia knew she should care, but it was easier to pull away. Until her nephew Josh showed up looking for his mother and Olivia found herself caring more than she could have imagined, desperately searching for Lily.In No More Lies it was Lily in the spotlight of hurt and betrayal. As Olivia is searching for Lily and Lily is frantically worried about Josh, we learn more about the story from Lily’s perspective. Her parents gave her an ultimatum with two unacceptable choices and she left. And had been running and hiding in fear ever since. We begin to get an idea of just how truly awful Dwight and Charlotte are and to what lengths they have gone to get what they want and prevent their children from comparing stories and learning the truth.And now in No More Secrets we learn the rest of Lucas’s story, the real story, not just the “Luke’s a bad boy” version. It’s not a contest as to who was damaged the most by their parents – but I think it just might have been Luke. He has strength like his sisters, but he’s been bullied and blamed and battered so often and for so long that there’s not much of that Luke left. He’s trying desperately to hang on to it but he feels so unworthy, so guilty. He’s shut himself up so tightly he can barely feel; the touch of another human repels him. Every day is another struggle to just make it through without harming himself. He can’t put down roots even though he longs to because he knows he’s done wrong and is being chased. He’s let his sisters down; he's let everyone down. It’s only a matter of time before he’s caught and given the punishment he deserves so how can he stay or get close or try to belong? He yearns for redemption and love but has no hope. Luke is tough, handsome, sexy, hard-working, kind-hearted even if he tries not to let that show. But when he looks in the mirror all he sees is bad, bad, bad. His sisters are better off without him. The world is probably better off without him. How could he have been so blind, so cowardly, so afraid that he couldn’t even help his little sister when she was in such need? How did he not even see it? How did he believe what his mother and father told him time after time after time?And then while Luke is hiding out in the desert, helping an old lady run her motel and convenience store and wondering when he’s going to have to make a run for it, here comes Shiloh Bloom—fifteen, homeless, and, like Lucas, escaping the past. Abused by her stepfather she took off, but she’s not very good at the teenager-on-the-road thing. She’s met someone on the internet who cannot possibly be as good as he seems, but she is determined to make her way to him, because she sees this as a step on the way to achieving her dreams and ambitions. She is strong but in a very dangerous environment. Every time Lucas looks at Shiloh he sees Lily, and regrets all over again how he could have helped her, have saved her. And he vows that he will keep Shiloh safe, will do what he should have done in the past, even if it means putting his own life and freedom at risk. He cannot fail again.Once again this No More story moves between the past and the present. We have the benefit of hindsight, of learning from the previous two books what took place, but Lucas is not so fortunate. All he has is his own memories of disastrous events that sent him on the run and made him a man he considers unworthy and irredeemable. Author Lonsdale does a – dare I use the word again? – magnificent job of weaving everything together from the past into the present, while keeping you laser focused on what is happening right here, right now to Lucas and Shiloh. All the characters are well-drawn and believable. There are a lot of “Aha!” moments where you will start piecing things from all the books together, but of course Olivia, Lucas and Lily never have the whole story, only what they have been fed by their parents. Olivia and Lily may be on the road to healing, but is it too late for Luke? He has so much to give, there is just something so inherently sweet and lovable about him that it almost hurts, how much you are rooting for him.No More Secrets is fast-paced, exciting and compelling, well written, well plotted, with vivid locations and full of twists, turns, mystery, uncertainty, danger. And always pointing back to family with hope that there is love and happiness to be found. All of Lonsdale’s books are completing satisfying, making you care deeply about the people and feeling all the emotions with them. Thanks to (magnificent) author Kerry Lonsdale and Lake Union Publishing for allowing me to be a member of her No More Team and for providing an advance copy of No More Secrets via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. I am voluntarily leaving this review; all opinions are my own. I recommend this book and everything she has written without hesitation – and I hope she is hard at work on her next book!

[susan0316 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

After Lucas spent six months in a juvenile detention center, he returned home as a changed person. He no longer wanted to be around his family - especially his sisters. He and Lily had always been close but when she ran away from home at 16, he didn't even try to find her. Now he's living a lonely and sad life. He's managing a store and renting an apartment from the owner. He rebuffs every effort she makes to connect with him and just wants to be alone. Until he meets Shiloh - who he refers to as Sunshine Girl. She's homeless and living in an abandoned car in a junk yard with other homeless people. She reminds him so much of his younger sister Lily, that he wants to help take care of her and provide her with food and a place to stay. They make up a story that she's his niece and she starts working at the store with him. He feels like they are becoming friends until she runs away again to meet up with a man she met on the internet who professes to love her. Lucas runs to her rescue but will he be too late and has Sunshine Girl gotten in too deep? It turns out that Lucas's sisters are looking for him but so are the police. Will he able to save Shiloh but more importantly will he be able to save himself and reconcile with his sisters?No more Secrets was the perfect ending to this wonderful and emotional trilogy about family and love and how secrets can change the entire course of a family's life together and bringing those secrets to the light can redeem a family and make them whole again.