Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Hidden Away
    Hidden Away
    Hidden Away
    Audiobook11 hours

    Hidden Away

    Written by Maya Banks

    Narrated by Harry Berkeley

    4/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    New York Times best-selling author Maya Banks received a RITA nomination for Hidden Away, the third novel in her captivating series starring the Kelly brothers. After Sarah Daniels witnesses Marcus Lattimer commit murder, she's paralyzed by fear. Garrett Kelly agrees to keep her safe, mostly to get a shot at Lattimer, whom KGI?has been after for years. Garrett never planned on falling for Sarah-but when she disappears, nothing will stop him from bringing her home safe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 3, 2012
    ISBN9781464048531
    Hidden Away
    Author

    Maya Banks

    Maya Banks is a #1 USA Today and New York Times bestselling author whose chart toppers have included erotic romance, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, and Scottish historical romances. She is the author of the Breathless Trilogy, the KGI series, the Sweet series, and the Colters' Legacy novels.

    More audiobooks from Maya Banks

    Related to Hidden Away

    Titles in the series (5)

    View More
    View More

    Related audiobooks

    Suspense Romance For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Crescent City

      Dec 1, 2021

      Crescent City
      5 min read

    • Article

      Marta

      Oct 15, 2019

      Marta
      4 min read

    • Article

      Six Dart Out

      Sep 10, 2023

      Marc figured the girl was a vegan. Her puke had overflowed the sink and run onto the floor—tomatoes and rice marinated in microbrew lager. He’d told Vegan Girl to slow down, but her friends had won the turning-21-peer-pressure battle. Admittedly, Mar

      9 min read

    • Article

      In Love And War

      Jun 10, 2021

      April 1943 - Krakow, Poland Irena was bent over her needlework, stitching the frayed seam of her skirt when she heard a single gunshot ring out. She jerked and then scowled. After four years of war, she ought to be used to it. Why, the other night a

      11 min read

    • Article

      ‘Starling Days’: Featured Fiction from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

      Apr 7, 2020

      In today's edition of featured fiction, we present an excerpt from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's latest novel, Starling Days. The post ‘Starling Days’: Featured Fiction from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Edge Case

      Aug 13, 2021

      Edge Case
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Straw Hat

      Aug 2, 2018

      The Straw Hat
      6 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Mar 23, 2020

      Julia Ebner works for a counter-extremism think tank that watches and documents radical groups from the outside. Worrying that she isn’t getting the full picture, she goes undercover, joins various groups and experiences them from the inside out. Thi

      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Apr 19, 2024

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Pickpocket

      Jun 1, 2020

      Pickpocket
      7 min read

    • Article

      Someone Else’s Shoes

      Aug 21, 2023

      Someone Else’s Shoes
      6 min read

    • Article

      Shaken, Not Stirred

      Dec 19, 2023

      Ava Glass, 50 Clambering down the hill, I tried not to trip as my kitten heels got wedged in the mud. Detectives crowded beside the river bank where a bloated body was being pulled out, arms jutting out as though waiting for a hug. River weeds hung f

      3 min read

    • Article

      Books

      May 25, 2020

      In this novel, set amid the Spanish Civil War, Isabel Allende gives us a short but incisive account of the horrors of war, as seen through the eyes of the Dalmau family from Barcelona, the Republican forces’ centre. It’s 1938, and the Republicans are

      5 min read

    • Article

      Safety

      Mar 1, 2023

      IT WAS only a dream, a bad dream, and nothing else. The man in Vidal’s dream was stalking a woman, spying on her from the shadows, following her down a dark alley as she sought refuge from a downpour. The woman was vaguely familiar to Vidal, though h

      13 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Jan 20, 2020

      Theresa’s former husband Theo has been little but a shadow in her life: he’s spent the past two decades in an institution. Now that he’s dead, she finds herself unsure how to mourn for a man she’s tried so hard to put behind her. But going through a

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Hidden Away

    4/5

    172 ratings11 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Again an exciting book. Garrett had a big problem with his conscience because he had to hide things from Sarah and she had her doubts about her brother, but in the end I think she forgot and forgave a little bit too easy. Also, it is a little bit similar to the 2nd one in this series. Still, a very enjoyable read.
    • 3/5
      Hidden Away
      3.5 Stars

      Disappointing - was expecting more from Garrett's book as he is my favorite Kelly brother.

      The story gets off to a slow start and the domesticity of the interminable island scenes soon begins to grate on the nerves. Thankfully the pace eventually picks up once the suspense plot gains momentum.

      Speaking of which, there are three separate suspense storylines and none are sufficiently developed or resolved satisfactorily. Although the main villain is a traitor and criminal he comes across as quite sympathetic and I appreciated his family loyalty. The secondary villain is a real scumbag and while he does get his just deserts, it occurs off page leaving the reader dissatisfied. The final thread is completely irrelevant and left me scratching my head in confusion and thinking where the hell did that come from.

      The romance is the strongest element in the book. Sarah overcomes a terrible ordeal but shows that she is a true survivor Yes, she has her moments of fear and insecurity but never allows them to weaken her resolve. Garrett is so sexy, patient and understanding with her that it makes me almost forget that he is keeping secrets and lying (a trope that I dislike intensely). Nevertheless, they have a sweet and emotional bond that makes it all worthwhile.

      The secondary characters are also entertaining, especially Rusty and Sean as well as Rio and Steele (who is particularly intriguing).

      Nathan's story is next and it sounds really good.
    • 5/5
      A good, exciting, action packed, steamy story that tackled personal trauma and trust issues in a relationship. I do like the closeness of the family in this series. Sarah goes into hiding because she witnessed a murder by her brother and Garrett is sent undercover to watch her and hopefully lure in the enemy, her brother.
    • 5/5
      Oh. My. God! Loved it! I love how there's almost no sex in these book, but there's always the chance of it which just makes the whole thing that much more interesting to read. The plots are always very good and the characters are just amazing as a whole!
    • 4/5
      I liked these characters a great deal and Maya Banks can always be relied upon for good romantic suspense. I was laid up with a virus and this proved to be an excellent companion -- took my mind right off my aches and pains and did not tax my fever addled brain.
    • 5/5
      Maya Banks is getting better and better with each passing book :)I love Garrett and is way of dealing with things, especially with chocolate and the nums nums :) And I adored him when he had to take the lead when Sophie is in labor. Adorable!Also, I found the heroine, Sarah, a mix of innocence and strength that added with her loyalty makes her a charming character. So far, for me, this is the best book from the KGI series.
    • 4/5
      Hidden Away, released on March 1, 2011.This book is about Garrett Kelly and the CIA wants him to get close to Sarah. Her half brother wants to find her and he's had a run in with Garrett.Another KGI book, action, adventure military style. She's in hiding and it's for her life-she has seen too much...Sophie is about to give birth, she loves family time and cooking.Garrett is recovering from steping in front of the bullet meant for Sofie. Hot steamy sex scenes.Story follows Sarah as she's on the run...Love catching up with the others in the family and what's going on with them. When she has no choice and runs Garrett uses his resources to find her and convince her they need to go elsewhere to stay safe. Love that location also!I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
    • 4/5
      This is the third book in the KGI series and it is very good. It grabs your attention right away and you won't want to put it down. There are multiple lot lines running through the story and all are resolved satisfactorily. Highly recommend for romantic suspense book lovers.
    • 5/5
      I'd read some less than stellar reviews on this book so I wasn't really looking forward to reading it, but after I got started reading, I had a hard time putting it down... as in I was reading on my lunch break and looked at the clock and was 10 minutes late. There are some things that I wish Maya had done a little different in the book and I wish it had been about 20 pages longer, I do think that Garrett should have had to done more in the end to get forgiveness, but overall I enjoyed the book.
    • 5/5
      I am having a hard time picking a favorite out of this series. I have loved all the books so far and can't wait for the other three brothers and any of the team members Ms Banks wishes to write stories for. I really enjoyed what the four brothers did for Rusty at the end of the book. I also really like Sarah and the way she fought to have a normal life after what happened to her. I have liked Garret since the first book and I was glad to see he found someone that would understand him and make him happy. I have a real soft spot for all the Kelly men as well as for Rio and Steele. These are well written books with a good plot, characters and the ongoing saga of the Kelly's. I don't like having to wait to find out what happened to Joe and Nathan, especially since it is going to be 2012 before the next book comes out.
    • 2/5
      Where’s the suspense? I didn’t like this one anywhere near as much as I wanted to – and I’d thought that out of all the KGI books this was going to be my favourite. I love Garrett, and fully expected this to be a five star read for me. I tried to cling to that hope even as I found myself completely bored for most of the book...even as I found the characters bland...even as I started to resent all the past and future heroes and heroines for stealing all the page time... Call me crazy, but when you market your book as romantic suspense, and stick a huge guy with a gun on the cover, I expect suspense. Not a family story featuring ‘amusing’ chapters about the pregnancy of the heroine of the last book (not only irrelevant to the plot, but those endless jokes were also irritating), and more time devoted to the bratty teenager Rusty (a character the author has said is not going to end up with any of the Kelly brothers, so I wonder at her consistently huge role in all of the books). The heroine, Sarah, was an afterthought for much of the story. I wanted more for my favourite Kelly brother! And what’s with the characters taking a shower or bath every chapter?! The first fifty percent of Hidden Away is boring. I was surprised how boring; even when I don’t like a Maya Banks book, in the past at least it’s held my attention and made me want to keep reading. But this one was so slow in the setup I found I kept putting it down and thinking about reading something else. We had endless chapters about Garrett going to the supermarket, Sarah buying books, Garrett fishing, Sarah going to the supermarket. I plodded on through waiting for the plot to arrive (the one I’d expected to include bad guys and guns!), but it was slow to get there. The story was all over the place. Garrett Kelly works for his family’s company. They’re all ex-military, and they’re all hired out for various rescue missions and such. Garrett is sent to keep an eye on Sarah Daniels, a woman whose half-brother is caught up in all kinds of bad stuff. But from there nothing much happens. We spend chapter after chapter on side stories featuring other characters – completely unconnected to the plot, and only of interest to you if you have read the other books and particularly liked those people. Sarah and Garrett have a bit of beach holiday, and then Garrett goes to Tennessee, and then both of them go to Mexico, and then both of them go to Belize. There’s no actual danger coming from the bad guys. In fact I pretty much forgot what the book was supposed to be about. Banks didn’t seem especially interested in writing the story the blurb told us we were getting, and therefore the ‘suspense’ was so bland that it became almost irrelevant to the book. When the action does arrive two-thirds of the way through it’s completely unrelated to the original danger Sarah was supposed to be in. Then, suddenly, after we’ve hardly spent any time with Sarah, we’re told she loves Garrett. Huh? When did that happen? Maybe when we spent all that page time with Sophie having her baby. Perhaps in that chapter we caught up with how Ethan and Rachel’s marriage was going. Or was it when we went off on that huge tangent about Rusty? Or during one of our many visits into Donovan Kelly’s domain? There was a whole lot going on in this book, sure, but none of it was relevant to: "Garrett doesn’t know exactly who, or what, Sarah’s running from, but whatever it is, she’s running for her life…" which the blurb informed us we’d be reading about. Banks’ problem with suspense in general seems to be that she’s not comfortable writing it alongside a relationship. They’re hanging out in a safe house for all those pages for what? Who’s dealing with the threat? What’s the plan? You shouldn’t forget these things just because it’s 80% of the way through the book and your characters still haven’t had sex. For me the difference between the best suspense and this series is that here the relationship development does not weave through the action. Instead we have one or the other, and everything comes to a complete standstill whenever we’re learning about the characters. For the most part in Hidden Away you’re not even going to remember the characters are supposedly in danger. There’re too many characters too. Yes, they were also in the first two books, but here I really felt their intrusion. We’re being sequel-baited and then sequel-baited some more. Not only are there all the Kelly family members to deal with (six brothers, two wives, a baby, two parents, and two ‘adopted’ siblings), but then we also have all the other KGI members (Cole, Steele. P.J., Rio, Terrence etcetera) and all their issues. Being swamped in that many characters leaves very little time for the main story to go anywhere much. If you want to update us on other characters, give them a paragraph or two, not multiple chapters! There were a whole lot of editing errors too - wrong words, and even the wrong character's name used at one point. Though the plot does pick up towards the end, it was too little too late. If I wasn’t already invested in this series, I can’t say I would have kept reading long enough to get to the good stuff. The author didn’t seem particularly committed to the suspense aspect of this instalment, and so to throw all the action at us along with the kitchen sink so late in the game felt like nothing more than compensation for a slow beginning. I still maintain that I love Garrett Kelly, and because of that I can’t tell you just how disappointed I was in his slow, meandering book.