Secret Lucidity

By: E.K. Blair

Narrated by: Elena Wolfe

This wasn't supposed to happen. But it did.

This wasn't supposed to be my life. But it was.

I was just a typical girl, living a typical life. Nothing was out of the ordinary until tragedy threw me into a turnstile I couldn't see my way out of. That was, until him.

I never could've imagined my heart falling the way it did. Hard, fast, and with unbounding beauty. The only problem? He was off limits. Forbidden. But he became my everything, and I became his, so we risked it all. It was only a matter of time until I realized that our risk came with unimaginable consequences. My name is Camellia Hale and his is David Andrews, and this is our love story.

A short story from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

©2018 E.K. Blair (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

Student/teacher relationship

Secret Lucidity is about Cam a seventeen year old junior who’s a champion swimmer at her high school. Her father is her coach and mentor. He’s her idol and role model. Cam is extremely close to her father more so than her mother.
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Cam was popular in school. She was dating the popular jock. Her friends admired her. When she lost her father nobody expected Cam to change as much as she did. Cam’s life was turned upside down and nobody understood what she was feeling. She no longer could find common ground with her friends. She should be spending her last summer before senior year with friends. They expected the same person they knew from before, but she couldn’t be that person anymore. The only person who seemed to understand her was the new coach. He was in his thirties, attractive, and single. Cam was drawn to him. He is everything she needs in this moments, filling gaps and mending pieces of her severed soul. What started as a teacher/student relationship slowing evolved into a forbidden off-limits relationship where they crossed the line into lovers. This is so much more than a student/teacher relationship. EK Blair piles on the grief of two broken characters who are carrying around a great amount of pain while also combining many variables that on the outside would disappoint people, but until she understand and read their story will you truly comprehend what they mean to each other.
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They knew it was not appropriate for them to be together. He’s fourteen years older than her. She’s only seventeen. He’s her coach and teacher. It’s illegal. None of those reasons stopped them from becoming lovers.
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Cam went from having a home filled with love and laughter to an empty home filled with sadness and grief. Her home is no longer a reflection of her family. Both her and her mother become victims of grief. Secret Lucidity is about a mother and daughter descending into grief. EK Blair shows the two different paths of grief and the effects this loss has on each of them.
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Narrator:
Elena Wolfe is the solo female performer of Secret Lucidity a story about seventeen year old Cam who lost her father the summer before senior year. He was her idol and role model. Without his comfort and support she feels lost and empty. Elena portrayed Cam’s emotional turmoil with skilled voice acting talent. I listened using the audible app at 2X speed. This is an unabridged audiobook allowing readers as myself the opportunity to follow along with my ebook.
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EK Blair challenges both readers and herself by writing about a controversial forbidden topic of love. This one is special as Cam’s character tackles grief in a painful way. Cam’s mother becomes an alcoholic and an absentee parent. Cam is neglected by her mother losing both parents in one tragic incident.

Taboo in a serious context

A lot of the taboo reads that I get myself mixed up in are hot and steamy and although I do demand a good story regardless, I don’t tend to pick up a taboo read that is as serious as Secret Lucidity, very often. While there have been a few, (ATUAWT, Tampa, Etc) it’s just not what you typically get when you read taboo.

A young girls life was destroyed when the death of her father left her mother unable to cope and her 17 year old heart unable to heal alone.

So many fingers could be pointed in this story and there are so many times I wanted to question the characters. Legit sit them down and ask, “why did you do this because I can’t understand”, but that is a good book, right? One that makes you challenge your way of thinking and draws in your ethics and morals?

All in all a really, really great book. I wish that EK would have honed in the ending a little more. I am a proponent of endings and where I don’t think I deserve to tell an artist how to create their masterpiece, I do think that if you take a reader on a very long journey, you owe them a damn good ending and not a truncated HEA. But thanks just me. Over here wanting to feel all warm and fuzzy before I move on and not still kind of edgy, happy. But still edgy.

Elena Wolfe is a scholar in audio. Like best of the best. Even her teenage voice is one you can’t argue with. Woman excels.

so good!

This was an amazing student/teacher forbidden romance that had me hooked from the beginning. Darker than I was expecting but well written and the narrator did a wonderful job. Highly recommend!

Elena Wolfe is Freakin AWESOME 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼

Thank you E.K. Blair love your books and this was a great Story, loved that it was about people from Oklahoma and so close to where I grew up! If you have listened or read this story you must check it out, you won’t be disappointed.

Oh My Heart Strings!

Wow, what an emotional rollercoaster. Yes, this story is full of tragedy, but it is epic. The ending almost made me loose my mind.

Didn’t want this book to end!

I loved this book! Excellent storyline and character development. The author has a way to capturing real love, intense love, emotional love, heart wrenching love, soulmate love like no one! Another favorite of mine!

AMAZING BOOK!!

I loved this book so much! Ek Blair you did it again!! Elena Wolfe was amazing reading it in Audible. This book is real life struggles and love!!!

A must listen to all Romance fan.

Wow. Great love story. Andi is such an amazing narrator. I just wish for a longer ending.

Sobbing Emotional Wreak ♥️🥲

I’ve had this book in my wishlist for a long time and finally started listening. After Chapter 2 I was sobbing and so emotionally wreaked. I couldn’t stop listening. The narrator takes you in to another life and it grabs you and doesn’t let you go.

Something different for once!

great listen as always with Elena Wolfe. I would definitely recommend it to others.