Alicia Ramos ● Merry Little Secret

Date Started : 7th December 2025

Date Finished : 8th December 2025

Stars 6/5 ✨✨✨✨✨✨ Spice 5/5 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Lucy not only looses her job in one day but she also returns home to witness that her long term boyfriend Jack is cheating on her. She packs up everything that she can take away easy and quick, gets in her car with the music getting louder (to show Jack that she is there) and then leaves. 

But what happens next is unexpected she has a car crash and rings her brother Marco, who is tied up with work so sends Sam to the rescue. That is where things get a little complicated because she has words that must be said to Sam, he just up and left her after taking her first time, no words and no explanation, just a see you latter I'm outs.

Well that is what she thinks happens, but that isn't quite how it happened though thanks to Jack, he took away all the letters that were sent from not only Sam but also her brother, learning this changes things just a little bit. 

Sam has some secrets about his time away in the marines, which she will slowly learn. One of them I don't think anyone could imagine when you are taken hostage. What will that leave for them, they both still have feelings that is obvious with all the tension and an anger that comes.

She uses time out at the cabin, to concentrate on her and have some space. Which after everything that has happened so close to Christmas, is something that she really needs. While also wondering why they kept all the letters that were written to her (minus her brothers ones which still haven't been found). 

Sam hasn't been back for a short time either! like WOW he has been back for 2 years, in hiding, but why? Why hide when the one you love is still out there? What will happen with Jack after everything that he has done.

I am lost without words that is all I am going to say about "what happens" which is more just in the first couple of chapters that really does hook you in. I'm already at 53% and I need to know what happens, and I am sure that today I will finish the book. That will be another read that doesn't even take me 24 hours total in time to read.

This story is all that you expect, Christmas seasons, spice, romance, tension and so much more. It is a quick, easy but hooking read that you won't be able to put down. You'll be like WOW I need more, which I really do need more of Lucy and Sam's story, I want to see where it goes. I want to know what the boys do to Jack as payback for everything.

A massive thank you to Alicia for giving me the chance to arc read for her. I'm really glad that I have been given the chance for this, and I need more!