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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Romance Book Review: Red Garnier The Billionaire's Club



 Kept By Him
Author: Red Garnier
Series Connection: The Billionaire's Club
ISBN-13: 978-1466833470
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Macmillan


After reading the second book in the series of The Billionaire's Club Taken By Him, I decided to check out the rest of the series. All quick reads about each of the five friends. The last book to the series Bared to Him is scheduled for release Aug. 1, 2013. Meanwhile I've now read the other three and are up to date. By the way, the more I read of the other two books, the more I like the immature Luke from Taken By Him. His character is getting better the more he time his spends with his lady love. 

For now the last story is Kept By Him, the story of the "Prince" Daniel and the woman who stole his heart years before Monica. Daniel is the ultimate ladies man, so when Monica asks him if he'll help her with a little problem she is having with intimacy she's sure if anyone can help he can. 

Daniel can't say no to the woman of his dreams. He'll do anything to get into bed with her. For Monica everything is okay as long as there are no strings attached, but for Daniel those strings have been there all along. Can he convince Monica to be his or will she hide from love?

Of all I like the emotional depth of this book the most. Monica is terrible wounded from events of long ago and Daniel is the strong protective guy who has always been there for her. This is a sweet, very sexy story. 

Description:
The Billionaire's Club: The wealthiest, most powerful men, not only in Chicago, but in the world. They are used to having whatever they want, whenever they want it.

Not everyone knows that billionaire Daniel Lexington gets a little dirty, a little dark and will settle for nothing less than everything from any woman lucky enough to tangle his sheets. Handsome, rich and completely irresistible, Daniel can have any woman he wants. However, there is one woman he aches to possess, but has never touched: Monica Davenport. Monica is one of the alarmingly few women in his life that Daniel has called friend and Daniel protects his friends—no matter what. But when Monica comes to him one night, asking him to make love to her, Daniel is not about refuse—he can't refuse—even if it could cost him everything.

After witnessing her mother's turbulent, bitter marriage to her father and its tragic end, Monica Davenport has always had trouble letting men get too close. She's determined to never to give herself to the kind of violent passion that plagued her parents' relationship. But after her most recent boyfriend dumps her for being passionless, Monica longs to finally break free. She wants to know what it feels like to be taken by a powerful, sexy man. And who better than Daniel Lexington? He is one of her closest friends and one of the few men she trusts…and she has always longed for his touch. Now, she has a shocking, erotic proposal that threatens to change everything between them because Daniel is a demanding lover who will accept nothing less than complete surrender.

Bound By Him
Author: Red Garnier
Series Connection: The Billionaire's Club
ISBN-13: 978-1466833463
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Macmillan


There is a big secret Andrew has been keeping from Whitney all these years. Three years ago he left telling her he needed to be away on business for a little while and asked her to be his forever. She agreed and waited for him, but when his letters stopped coming she gave up hope. 

Now he's home and he just expects to pick up where he left off. Whitney isn't having that. She's changed and it doesn't matter how much she loves him, she can't just let him back in her life without an explanation of where he has been and what he has been doing all this time. 

Andrew loved Whitney more than anything since she was a teenager. He would walk through hell for her and never let her worry about the sacrifice he made. Now that he is back he won't let her get away again. All he wants is his life back with her. 

Now someone wants to take that life away from him. He'll do anything to keep Whitney safe.


Description:
The Billionaire's Club: The wealthiest, most powerful men, not only in Chicago, but in the world. They are used to having whatever they want, whenever they want it.

Oil tycoon Andrew Fairchild would sell his soul to protect Whitney Donahue. She's the one girl he's loved his whole life. And when tragedy strikes and Andrew needs to leave, he's determined to keep Whitney from knowing where he's going, and why. But when he finally comes home, he discovers that Whitney is no longer the vulnerable young girl he left behind. She's all woman and she awakens his darkest passions with an intensity that threatens to consume them both.

Whitney never loved anyone the way she loved Andrew Fairchild and no one hurt her the way he did. When he returns, her body remembers his touch all too well and while Whitney is rendered helpless by his expert seduction, glorying in the way he forces her to surrender her body, she vows never to give him her heart again. But "never" is not a word in Andrew's vocabulary. When a madman threatens Whitney's life and the past they've struggled for years to put behind them haunts them once more, this sexy billionaire is even more determined to fight for her—and fight not only for her heart, but for the very life of the woman he's bound to him forever.

Claimed By Him
Author: Red Garnier
Series Connection: The Billionaire's Club
ISBN-13: 9781466833449
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Macmillan



Chloe is tired of Graves treating her like his best friends little sister. She wants him for herself and she knows he's interested, but when she finally makes her move he's already hooked up with another woman for the night. So she give him an ultimatum if he doesn't give himself to her for her birthday she just give her virginity to her brother's other friend Luke. 

Grave is going crazy. He can't let Chloe go to Luke. Luke is such a man-whore he'd take her no questions asked. So he set out to try and convince her not to do it, but that doesn't work Graves can't resist the woman he's wanted forever. Unfortunately, when her brother finds out what's going on, he's ready to put a stop to it and he might just convince Chloe that its the best possible way for this who thing to end. 

This is one of those predictable stories of girl in love with her brother's best friend. It isn't as bad as it seems though. The writing is in top form, the story starts off the series and introduces everyone to the rest of the series characters and you just can't help but fall for Graves and his little nerdy gadgets and robots. 

Description:
The first original e-novella in Red Garnier’s fabulously sexy Billionaire’s Club series about the some of the world’s most wealthiest, powerful men and women they claim—and keep…

Graves Buchanan has always been secretly obsessed with Chloe Lexington, an innocent “princess” who also happens to be his best friend’s sister. But Graves would never dare touch her—his desires are too erotic, too deep…too dark. Little does he know that Chloe is just as infatuated with Graves. She’s dreamed about him for so long, despite her brother’s warnings that she could never handle a man like him. Now that Chloe has turned twenty-five, what she wants for her birthday is Graves. But once she has him, can Chloe tame the passion that will be unleashed?

Read all five e-novellas in this sensational series—and look for the full volume of THE BILLIONAIRE'S CLUB in January 2014 from St. Martin’s Paperbacks.


Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Romance Book Review: Red Garnier's Taken By Him


Author: Red Garnier
Series Connection: The Billionaire's Club
ISBN-13: 978-1466833456
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks


Luke is shot while having sex with a stranger in his apartment. That's nothing new for him, Luke doesn't mind sharing his bed with a different woman every day and thinks it is his due especially with all his money. 

His friends convince him it is best for him to go away for a while, so the police can sort out who tried to kill him, so he goes to a beach resort and spends some time away from women and to spend some Luke time. 

Peyton is an executive who has worked her butt off and deserves a break. She's decided she's been a good girl for long enough and wants to have her first fling. She meets Luke and decides that she's never going to have a chance to meet a man like him again and goes for it. 

For three days the couple spend practically no time out of bed and the sex is wild and fun, until the day they have to part and realize it has never been like this for either. They part thinking they will never see each other again. 

Peyton's back in her Chicago and back at work and finds out that Luke isn't who she thought he was and when she gets to meet him again, she's ready to give him a piece of her mind. 

This is one of those books where it is just too short to really believe the outcome. As much as I like Peyton's character and love the idea of her branching out and finding vacation fling, which she seems to richly deserve, we don't get a chance to really see Luke's character really change from just a three day fling with Peyton.

Description:
The Billionaire's Club: The wealthiest, most powerful men, not only in Chicago, but in the world. They are used to having whatever they want, whenever they want it.

Luke Preston is the ultimate playboy among his billionaire friends. Every bad girl in Chicago has surrendered in his bed. Some good girls, too. But when he ends up in the hospital after an assassination attempt, his friends suggest he take a long vacation to recoup, regroup and lay off the women until the man is caught. However, when Luke lays eyes on the stunning brunette across the beach, she inspires every dark, erotic thought his mind can conjure.

Peyton Lane has always been serious and responsible and she's determined to have some fun for once in her life. And that means a deliciously, sexy affair with a stranger while she's on vacation. So when a blond Adonis named Luke crosses her path at the Cancun resort, she's determined that he will be the one. But Peyton gets more than she bargained for when Luke introduces her to a passion unlike any she has ever experienced and she discovers that behind that charming smile are secrets and a beautiful, damaged soul.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Romance Book Review: Anthology Men of Danger


Authors: Lora Leigh, Red Garnier, Alexis Grant, Lorie O'Clare
Anthology
ISBN-13: 978-0312576363

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks


I picked up this book because Lora Leigh and Lorie O'Clare was offering a quick read story, so as far as I was concerned I got my money's worth with just those two stories. The other stories were just okay, but I thought they needed to go on a little longer to get the full effect out of them. 

Each story feature a bit of mystery and suspense with a love match romance. 

Description:
LORA LEIGH
“Hannah’s Luck”
When burglars try to break into her home, kindergarten teacher Hannah Brookes is lucky to have Sheriff Rick Grayson on her side. Especially when their mutual attraction leads to distraction…

RED GARNIER
“Reckless”
Police detective Zach Rivers isn’t the only man in Phoenix who’s obsessed with the beautiful Paige Avery—but he’s definitely the sexiest and, quite possibly, the most dangerous…

ALEXIS GRANT
“Tempt Me”
R&B star Anita has beauty, talent, fame—and her very own stalker—which is why she needs a professional bodyguard. But can she resist mixing business with pleasure when the hired muscle is to die for?

LORIE O’CLARE
“Love Me ’til Death”
Homicide detective Ashley Jones hates working with the FBI. But Chase Reed is one special agent whose rule-breaking methods, razor-sharp mind, and rock-hard body make for one killer combination…