Hidden Passion

The Hidden Series #3

by Nicole Colville

It’s almost a year since Jamie Burton began the painful journey of recovering his hidden past with Scot Victore. Even though the past is beginning to become clear for Jamie his present is seriously mixed up. He is forced to live two lives, he moves from his love for his beautiful Valerio to the hidden passion he shared with Scot. His journey is a difficult one, he can't be told the truth, he has to see it for himself and only with the help of Scot Victore can he do that. He’s confused by the strong emotions he has returning for Scot, he knows inside there was more, more than he feels for Valerio. But he also knows it hurts to be with Scot. He knows he should love Valerio but the pull he feels for Scot keeps growing and growing.

Life with Valerio should be easy in comparison to his past relationship with Scot, but Valerio’s closeted homosexuality still hasn’t been resolved and they are nowhere near to having the open and loving relationship that Jamie craves for them. Hiding from the whole world is hard for them both, but Jamie never denies Valerio, never hides him and the frustration of always being held in the shadows of Valerio’s life is painful for Jamie.

Scot would never deny Jamie, never turn him away. He's there for him in a way only he can see right now. His pain is growing along with Jamie's memories. How long can he cope with his painful past being lived out right in front of him in a way he didn’t see the first time. His love for Rafael is pure and uncomplicated but he knows his heart belongs to Jamie. Seeing Valerio fight so strongly to keep Jamie in his hold is breaking him in two. Scot loves Jamie in a way that no one else will ever do, but along with his love comes pain and hurt. Jamie has to see everything that has happened between them before Scot can be sure what Jamie wants. Running between Jamie and Rafael is hurting him but how can he turn from his beloved Jamie when he is the only person who can help him find the truth.

All four of them are on a painful journey, one that can end only one way, even more painfully. Scot is the only one who can see the future, he is the only one who can understand what is to come and he dreads it with every breath he takes. When the end comes, when Jamie sees what has happened, what will remain of the love and passion that they both feel?

When the truth is out and Jamie see’s what he has spent years hiding inside his mind will it be time for Scot to step back and continue with his beautiful Rafael and let Valerio take Jamie from him? Or will he and Jamie be able to be the couple that he has always wanted them to be?

Genres: M M Romance, Romance, Abuse, Sports, Contemporary, Mental Illness

397 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 24, 2013

About the author

Welcome to the home of bittersweet M/M romances which will leave you craving more.

Nicole grew bored being a supermodel genius who worked part time for NASA, and decided to take a break from helping solve the mysteries of the universe with Stephen Hawkins to write m/m romance.

She has a loving relationship with her hubby of twenty years, and has achieved a lot in her short life considering she's only eighteen. She has fourteen dogs of all different breeds, plus twenty cats, and when she's not tending to their every need, and solving complex math problems, she loves to sew and can be often found knitting in the garden, which she maintains all by herself with her magical green fingers.

Finding time to make all of her own clothing and master the kitchen better than Gordon Ramsey, she's also a vegan domestic goddess and can often be found cooking up a storm bare foot in her kitchen.

Okay, so that's not true, especially the cooking part, though I do tend to be bare foot and I swear like Gordon does while burning my latest creation -- and I still think NASA will be getting in touch. Any day now!! *crosses fingers* I could sooo do that job because I'm so obviously awesome, but until they do...

I'm a full time author of M/M Romance and Erotica, and somehow I have several bestselling books under my belt. I've been writing for four years, and I self publish all my work under Hidden Pleasures Publishing along with my amazing team of helpers in the form my cover designer Kellie Dennis, editor Jessica McKenna, and all of my beta readers and PA's.

I'm a wife to my beloved hubby and mother to two young girls, and I do in fact have two cats who I adore, but no dog, as the hubby put his foot down. I live in Leeds in the North of England and I love it, despite the terrible weather.

My men are all seeking what everyone is, true love mixed with passion and their own happy-ever-after full of laughter and tears.


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Reviews

[Caroline Brand · Rating 5 out of 5]

REVIEWED FOR PRISM BOOK ALLIANCE

4.5 Stars

There is so much wrong with the way the three main characters of this series live their lives but I find the story line truly addictive! No matter how many times Jamie tells himself he loves Valerio and promises himself he will be faithful the lure of Scott is too much yet the reason why is partly still a mystery.

The story has moved on a year and Jamie is having regular flashbacks and remembering his past. He spends the majority of his time with Valerio and they are now living together and waiting for their new home to be finished. They have moved to London, kind of a fresh start, and it helps Jamie stay away from Scott.

Scott is still with Rafael and is engaged to be married. I think the engagement was more to jolt Jamie’s memory than to show a declaration of love and it certainly had the desired effect. Jamie and Scott text and email in their quest for making Jamie better but every time they are physically together it is a struggle to not end up in bed together.

This part of their journey is very much about looking into the past. The more time Jamie spends remembering and having flashbacks the more obvious it becomes that he had a very different relationship with Scott than the one he remembers. It also becomes more obvious that it is not only Scott hiding the truth from him but his entire family. The question is why and whether they have all done more damage than good.

As usual the story takes place all over the world and the wealth these men have make it possible for them to have everything they want, everything except peace, happiness and truth.

Towards the end of the book it is clear that pretty soon we are going to have Jamie’s secret finally revealed but I’m not left with the impression that it’s going to make their lives any easier. Scott is terrified and as much as he and Jamie have tried to hide their time together Valerio is not as unaware as they think and he will take drastic measures to keep the man he loves but hopefully it won’t damage the progress already made.

[Louisa Mae · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am really growing to adore these characters, which each book we get to see a different side to them, each one is like an onion, you peel back one layer and reveal another and then another. This time we get to see more into the dynamic of the 'relationship' between Jamie and Scot. So much is hidden from Jamie and he is beginning to remember what they had, and exactly how much they meant to each other.

This book is like a recipe, starting with a base of Jamie's ongoing relationship with Valerio and add a dash of a new man in Scot's life and then simmer over the course of the book and then leave us with a cliffhanger and you have me wanting more and more and MORE.

I hadn't really taken to Scot as a person in the first books, to me this is a great reflection on the writing skill of Ms Colville. Scot to me was devious, a protaganist, always trying to put a spanner in the works where Valerio and Jamie are concerned and drive them apart and steal Jamie away for himself. But now, I can see he is far from that. Scot has suffered alot as he loves Jamie so much it hurts him deep in his sould (yes he does have one) and it also hurts him to hide what they had and what he knows they could have in the future.

So much is revealed in this book, it made me gasp more than once as secrets from the past come back and haunt the present.

Hidden Passion to me, certainly lives up to the title as there is so much hidden and so much passion between the characters.

Brilliantly written, and kept me captivated all the way through and when it ended I was sad as I desperately need to know what happens next.

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I've found that I genuinely like these characters with all the flaws that they possess...the are too much of everything but that's what make them so much fun. Even the pretty, wealthy and successful have insecurities and issues after all.
I feel a great deal of compassion for both Jamie and Valerio...perhaps not as much for Scott but then again there are times when I just want to push Scott overboard from his own yacht! Lol...(don't hate me for that Nicole!)
The author has given us some great backdrops to place these flawed yet endearing characters, Monaco, Italy, England, yachts, racing and parties. Of course the author has given us lots of reasons to continue reading the series the biggest of which is three little words;
To Be Continued!! aarrrggghhhh! Just kidding. So far I've gone from being a little indifferent to the first book to being totally pulled in by Nicole and her cast of characters...I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

[Sasha Verdi · Rating 5 out of 5]

As with the four other books i hve read from this author i loved it. Loads more drama but more insight into their thoughts and feelings. I really love these characters, even Valerio and Rafael, who i really hope have a happy ending. I noticed on the also from this author they have their own bok and i am just dying to read it. I've just started reading book five in the series and it's even better.

[Valérie · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best of the three volumes currently

I suspected that the relationship established by the author in his three men and especially the complex personality behind each of their beautiful appearance was to take them to the top of either happiness or directly into hell. Well, I ‘m not mistaken, and even then I'm sure that everyone has the decision taken is the one he really wants. I would say that there is a certain perversion at Nicole Colville, why oblige both men are Scot and Jamie to suffer so much and wanted to go far in the depths of themselves, I don’t think that Valerio, which to me not really part of the equation. And I'm not talking too much Rafael, because the poor man is only a distraction for Scot who loves (maybe really), but more as a deep affection and the need not to be alone.

Valerio is less engaging, it doesn’t gain in maturity and I really think he is selfish, he just doen’t want to lose against Scot because he considers himself a winner, it's a competitor, feelings of Jamie he doen’t care. And Jamie, what a delicious character, endearing, if wounded and completely lost between Scot and Valerio, is a man on a scale, his heart told him one thing and his body and his head another, but it is the truth? It is true that at times I wanted to say "stop" because the author actually sometimes too melodramatic for poor Jamie, and then Scot arrives and I forget. Scot is Scot, for some readers simply an arrogant and authoritarian, but for me a loving man who would do anything for Jamie, maybe I'm wrong.

I think in this series, what pleases me most and which in my opinion should not appeal to other readers who may have the feeling of being in a real soap opera have is the fabric of spider woven between this singular threesome. Well, there are also beautiful scenes of sex, I love hot and sexy sensual scenes, but for once it's more that I cannot really capture the true personality of each character. When I finally think they will really decide act or event from the past comes to break the fragile harmony: it's annoying for me. The author did a lot of work on his writing is much more fluid, construction still has weaknesses, but frankly I passed over so I appreciate this story.

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Je me doutais que la relation mise en place par l’auteure entre ses trois hommes et surtout la personnalité complexe de chacun derrière leur belle apparence devait les conduire soit au sommet du bonheur, soit directement dans l’enfer. Eh bien, je ne me suis pas trompée, et même là, je suis sûre que la décision que chacun a prise n’est celle qu’il désire vraiment. Je dirais même qu’il y a une certaine perversion chez Nicole Colville, pourquoi obliger ses deux hommes que sont Jamie et Scot à autant souffrir et aller cherché autant au fond d’eux-mêmes, je ne pense pas à Valerio, qui pour moi ne fait pas vraiment partie de l’équation. Et je ne parle pas trop de Rafael, car le pauvre n’est qu’un dérivatif pour Scot qui l’aime (peut-être vraiment), mais pas d’amour, c’est plus de l’affection profonde et le besoin de ne pas être seul.

Valerio est moins attachant, il ne gagne pas en maturité et je pense sincèrement qu’il est égoïste, il ne veut tout simplement pas perdre devant Scots, car il se considère comme un gagnant, c’est un compétiteur, les sentiments de Jamie, il s’en fiche. Et Jamie, quel délicieux personnage, si attachant, si blessé et complètement perdu entre Scot et Valerio, c’est un homme sur une balance, son cœur lui dit une chose et son corps et sa tête une autre, mais qu’elle est la vérité ? C’est vrai, que par moment j’ai eu envie de dire “stop” car l’auteure en fait parfois trop dans le mélodrame pour ce pauvre Jamie, et puis Scot arrive et j’oublie. Scot est Scot, pour certaines lectrices simplement un homme arrogant et autoritaire, mais pour moi un homme amoureux qui ferait n’importe quoi pour Jamie, je me trompe peut-être.

Je pense que dans cette série, ce qui me plait avant tout, et qui à mon avis ne doit pas plaire à d’autres lectrices qui ont peut-être le sentiment d’être dans un véritable feuilleton télé, c’est la toile d’araignée tissée entre ce trio singulier. Bon, il y a aussi de superbes scènes de sexes, j’adore les scènes sensuelles torrides et sexys, mais pour une fois c’est surtout que je n’arrive pas vraiment à cerner la véritable personnalité de chacun des personnages. Dès que je pense qu’enfin, ils vont vraiment se décider, une action ou un évènement du passé viennent rompre le fragile équilibre : que c’est énervant. L’auteure a fait beaucoup de travail sur son écriture, c’est beaucoup plus fluide, la construction a encore des points faibles, mais franchement je passe au-dessus tellement j’apprécie cette histoire.

[Nicole Colville · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hi Everyone,

Here's the third book in my series. I really loved writing this one, it seemed so much easier than the first two. It begins almost a year from where you left Hidden Pasts. There's so much more to come. I really hope you enjoy it. Lots of love, Nicole.

[Shay · Rating 3 out of 5]

And the drama continues...

[Shannon Shameh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't put these books down wonderfully written. Entertaining fro. Beginning to end