REEVE IS HERE!
Meet Reeve & Emily in First Touch by Laurelin Paige! This highly anticipated release is NOW LIVE!
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Blurb
When Emily Wayborn goes home to visit her mom while on hiatus from her hit TV show, she receives a voicemail from her former best friend, Amber. Though the two were once notorious party girls, they haven't spoken in years. Although the message might sound benign to anyone else, Amber uses a safe word that Emily recognizes, a word they always used to get out of sticky situations during their wild days. And what's more chilling than the voicemail: it turns out that Amber has gone missing.Determined to track down her friend, Emily follows a chain of clues that lead her to the enigmatic billionaire Reeve Sallis, a hotelier known for his shady dealings and play boy reputation. Now, in order to find Amber, Emily must seduce Reeve to learn his secrets and discover the whereabouts of her friend. But as she finds herself more entangled with him, she finds she's drawn to Reeve for more than just his connection to Amber, despite her growing fear that he may be the enemy. When she's forced to choose where her loyalty lies, how will she decide between saving Amber and saving her heart?
Excerpt
“Tell me something,” he said, overtly switching gears. “What’s with you and Chris Blakely?”He’d been watching me at the Expo, then. Before he’d come outside after me.
His question about Chris was spoken casually, but it was purposeful. A more naïve woman might have missed it, but I was too experienced with men like him. He wanted me to know that I was in his sightline. That this was what it meant to be part of his life. That he would monitor me, if he felt like it; he’d rule me. And he expected me to submit.
I couldn’t decide if that freaked me out or thrilled me.
So I played coy. “He’s an actor. We’ve worked together on occasion. I guess we’re friends.”
I walked into the kitchen and got a glass from the cupboard. Chewing my lip, I filled it with filtered water from the sink and debated full disclosure regarding Chris…It was a long shot, but since I hoped to contact Chris for more information about Missy at some point, I decided the less I said the better.
I drank some of my water then set the glass down and leaned across the counter to watch Reeve. His fingers trailed across the spines. I couldn’t see the exact books, so I tried to think what was there. My Katherine Hepburn autobiography. My copy of Rebecca.
He stopped and pulled one from the shelf then flipped through it lazily. This one I recognized from the cover. PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, one of my coffee table books. I collected them and had so many that most lived on my bookshelf rather than on my coffee table. This particular book was a printing of blog posts that shared secrets anonymously. Parts of it read like my diary, and I’d marked several pages with Post-it notes so I could easily come back to them. Reading it had always felt comforting.
Seeing it in Reeve’s hands, though, wasn’t comforting. He flipped through the pages, stopping on the ones I’d tagged. Chuckling at some. Growing somber at others. At one, he lifted his head toward me and nodded slightly as if confirming what he’d just thought, what he’d just read.
I ran through several confessions I knew by heart, trying to imagine which it had been—
“Again and again. Used.”
“I’m more scared of court than I was when he almost killed me.”
“I would do absolutely anything in the whole world if I thought it would make her happy.”
Whichever ones he was reading, any of them—all of them—were private. Too private for him to know spoke to me. Yet, I didn’t stop him. I let him sink one layer deeper under my skin.
It was bad enough that he was in my apartment—in an apartment that I paid for myself. His presence reminded me of a time when everything I owned had been given to me by men. The things I had now, though small in number and worth, were all mine.
Trying to distract myself from the anxiety Reeve’s invasion caused, I asked, “Why do you want to know about Chris anyway? Do you want me to fix you up? He’s got a fiancé, you know.”
Reeve shot me a glare. “Cute.”
He put the book back on my shelf and moved toward me. When he reached the counter, he said, “Chris doesn’t look at you like he has a fiancé.”
Ah. I’d forgotten Reeve was a jealous man. Or I’d underestimated the depth of his envy. Strangely, it was a fairly common trait of the kind of men I’d involved myself with in the past, the kind of men who had everything. I knew how to pander to them, knew what to say to put their insecurities to rest. No one could ever be man enough to compare with you, I’d say. It might have been what Reeve was looking for in regards to Chris.
But I couldn’t bring myself to give it to him. “A lot of men don’t look at me like they have a fiancé.”
Reeve leaned across the opposite side of the counter so we were face-to-face. “I don’t like that.”
Jealousy was generally boring, yet, on Reeve, it was fascinating. And, I suspected, dangerous. “You don’t? What are you going to do about it? Lock me up and never let me out in public?”
“I have some nice secluded resorts I think you’d like. My island properties are so beautiful you’ll forget you’re in a prison.”
He flashed his dimple. It was subtle, only noticeable when he smiled in a certain way, the way he was smiling now. And his eyes…I’d thought they were blue, but now I saw green flecks. They caught in the light. They caught me in them, made me feel warm. Made me feel trapped.
I stood up straight, distancing myself without moving away. “Look at you. Acting as if you have some claim to me. I think I already blew you off the other night.”
“Look at you, acting as if I’m a person that you blow off. I think I already warned you about me.” He was teasing as I’d been. But he wasn’t all at the same time.
My heart skipped a beat. “Another threat?”
“If you want it to be.” He looked at me like he had earlier—that intent way that saw through me, into me. Saw all my dark parts.
In a way, he was showing me his darkness as well.
My lip quivered, but I wasn’t scared. Well, not scared enough. “I do.”
His eyes sparked, and with that simple phrase, we entered into an agreement. He would have me. He would f*ck me. He would bring me into his world.
And in return I’d let him break me.
Review
RATING:
This is my fist Laurelin read and I’m asking myself why that is. I have her series that house Hudson Pierce but somehow never got to it. But at least now I got to meet Reeve Sallis.
Reeve’s name crossed Emily’s periphery all because of a cryptic phone call from a long-lost friend. Regardless, as it turns out, they were what each other needs and so began their song and dance. As they try to figure each other out, Emily has a mission to fulfill, answers to seek out, a mystery to solve.
Really, fascinating is the first word that comes to mind when it comes to these 2, Emily and Reeve. They have such a curious dynamics that I can’t help but be caught up in the beauty of it all. Gah, how do I talk about them without giving anything away??? I just want to say that Laurelin did such a wonderful job making me understand, especially Emily. It was mesmerizing getting into her head, making me comprehend her motivations that propel her needs, accepting her, the way Reeve accepts her, and this is me despite not being able to relate to her. And Reeve is just mysterious with his personality and attitude; yet, you can’t help, or at least I can’t, but just be extremely attracted with the way he sees Emily, the way he takes charge, the way he takes care of her, the way he’s unsettled by Emily… an alpha dude through and through. And considering how the story is unfolding, I was worried at every turn of the page, and turned on, right til the end. Such a weird feeling!
This is the first bk in this duet so don’t expect a nicely wrapped up ending with all your questions answered. It ends on a cliffie, if that’s still not clear. I can’t even imagine where this story will go, nor do I want to hazard a guess. All I know is that the mere thought of the sequence of events is getting me really worried. I’m worried for Emily, worried for Emily and Reeve, worried about how each will react and survive the sense of betrayal that’s slowly unfurling from every angle, yet anticipating just as much the palpable deeper connection developing between these 2, and of course I can't forget the mystery that started this all, who really are the good guys and the bad ones… GAH!!!
I hope Laurelin won’t mind when I say that reading this reminds me, in a way, of Aleatha’s Consequences series and CD’s SOS series, 2 series which I love to pieces, btw. You have 2 very captivating characters with very distinct proclivities and layer that with a storyline full of intrigue, tension and suspense, and what you get is one heck of a ride!
Last Kiss can’t come fast enough…. sigh…
Last Kiss (Book Two) A First and Last Novel
Releases June 14th, 2016
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