Bound By Secrets (Cauld Ane #3) By: Piper Davenport

      Brodie Gunnach has endured a horrific childhood, along with his brothers and sister within the Cauld Ane royal family. When he meets his mate, he is alarmed to learn she is only fourteen and they cannot be bound for another eleven years. He makes a heart-wrenching decision to leave in an effort to save them both from years of pain and frustration.
      Payton McFadden is infatuated with a young, handsome prince that she's met once. After speaking with him at a party for her father, he disappears, only to return five years later with a declaration and a demand.
      As the two are bombarded with secrets that could destroy not only their relationship, but their way of life, will they be able to sort out truth from fiction and overcome the obstacles before them?

      I don't know if it's because this is the third book in the Cauld Ana series and the first book that I'm reading or what. But there were more than a few times that I was reading this story where I was so confused. First off, it wasn't until I started reading for a bit that I realized this book was not taking place in the U.S. And while I have no issue with that, usually when you read books like this there's a least some type of note and this time there wasn't one. Also because this book wasn't taking place in the states there were several times that these characters said some things or mentioned something and I had no idea what they were taking about because the word wasn't in American English.
      Again, while I have no issue with this, it does make things difficult when reading sometimes because I would have no clue what they were referring to. It takes you out of the story when you are constantly wondering what a word is. One last issue I'll talk about was whenever a character was referring to the weather. Even after completing this story I'm still confused if the country this book takes place in used Fahrenheit or Celsius. Bound By Secrets kept switching between the two degrees making it very hard to figure out what the temperature was and that was something that was important to the characters.
      While none of these things are deal breakers or anything it did does sometimes take things out of the reading experience when you're like what is that, or where did that come from. Even with these issues this would still be a book I could recommend reading and one I will be reading again.