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About PURE WICKED: A Wicked Lovers Novella
During his decade as an international pop star, Jesse McCall has lived every day in the fast lane. A committed hedonist reveling in amazing highs, globetrotting, and nameless encounters, he refuses to think about his loneliness or empty future. Then tragedy strikes.
Shocked and grieving, he sheds his identity and walks away, searching for peace. Instead, he finds Bristol Reese, a no-nonsense beauty scraping to keep her family’s business afloat while struggling with her own demons. He’s intent on seducing her, but other than a pleasure-filled night, she’s not interested in a player, especially after her boyfriend recently proposed to her sister. In order to claim Bristol, Jesse has to prove he’s not the kind of man he’s always been. But when she learns his identity and his past comes back to haunt him, how will he convince her that he’s a changed man who wants nothing more than to make her his forever?
About Shayla Black:
Shayla Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than forty novels. For over fifteen years, she's written contemporary, erotic, paranormal, and historical romances via traditional, independent, foreign, and audio publishers. Her books have sold well over a million copies and been published in a dozen languages.
Raised an only child, Shayla occupied herself with lots of daydreaming, much to the chagrin of her teachers. In college, she found her love for reading and realized that she could have a career publishing the stories spinning in her imagination. Though she graduated with a degree in Marketing/Advertising and embarked on a stint in corporate America to pay the bills, her heart has always been with her characters. She's thrilled that she's been living her dream as a full-time author for the past seven years.
Shayla currently lives in North Texas with her wonderfully supportive husband, her teenage daughter, and a very spoiled cat. In her "free" time, she enjoys reality TV, reading, and listening to an eclectic blend of music.
ALPHA BOOK CLUB REVIEW
Title: Pure Wicked
Series Name: 1001 Dark Nights
Author: Shayla Black
Genre: Erotic
Overall Stars: 5 STARS
Rock Star
Chef
Love at first sight or simply refuge for a few days?
During his decade as an international pop star, Jesse McCall has lived every day in the fast
lane. A committed hedonist reveling in amazing highs, globetrotting, and nameless encounters,
he refuses to think about his loneliness or empty future. Then tragedy strikes. Shocked and
grieving, he sheds his identity and walks away, searching for peace. Instead, he finds Bristol
Reese, a no-nonsense beauty scraping to keep her family’s business afloat while struggling with
her own demons. He’s intent on seducing her, but other than a pleasure-filled night, she’s not
interested in a player, especially after her boyfriend recently proposed to her sister. (Amazon
Blurb)
When I started reading this novel, I seriously doubted it was possible for Jesse to truly be able
to go around incognito simply by removing some facial and head hair as well as remove his
earrings, and then I stopped and remembered my office Christmas party two years ago when I
dyed my hair black and dark purple (my natural hair color is light brown with some blond) and it
took most of my colleagues and bosses up to half an hour to realize who I was. Too bad it didn’t
take them longer! Part of the Wicked Lovers Series by Shayla Black, Pure Wicked was
amazing! I loved it; you found the rock star living the high life with the alcohol, the women, the
drugs and with one single decision everything was ripped out of his hands, and you also had the
girl next door, who expected nothing, except to be happy in life and enjoy what she does.
Reality checks aren’t easy to swallow, and yet Jesse still manages to take it into consideration –
something I highly doubt a few months ago he would have been able to do. Shayla Black does
not disappoint readers with her novel, making sure that her i’s are doted and her t’s are crossed,
by adding spice and conflict at just the right moments and especially making those electrifying
scenes realistic enough that most of us might need a few glasses of water to cool down, or a
cold shower, whichever works best! Even though the novella is part of the Wicked Lovers
series, it could be read as a standalone and readers would still be able to enjoy the story without
fear of being confused or even having to wonder every other page ‘who the heck is this
character’.
**Received a copy in exchange for an honest review. Read and reviewed by Kathleen for Alpha
Book Club**
Hidden Ink
Montgomery Ink Book 4.5
The Montgomery Ink series continues with the long-awaited romance between the café owner next door and the tattoo artist who’s loved her from afar.
Hailey Monroe knows the world isn’t always fair, but she’s picked herself up from the ashes once before and if she needs to, she’ll do it again. It’s been years since she first spotted the tattoo artist with a scowl that made her heart skip a beat, but now she’s finally gained the courage to approach him. Only it won’t be about what their future could bring, but how to finish healing the scars from her past.
Sloane Gordon lived through the worst kinds of hell yet the temptation next door sends him to another level. He’s kept his distance because he knows what kind of man he is versus what kind of man Hailey needs. When she comes to him with a proposition that sends his mind whirling and his soul shattering, he’ll do everything in his power to protect the woman he cares for and the secrets he’s been forced to keep.
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About Carrie Ann Ryan
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan never thought she’d be a writer. Not really. No, she loved math and science and even went on to graduate school in chemistry. Yes, she read as a kid and devoured teen fiction and Harry Potter, but it wasn’t until someone handed her a romance book in her late teens that she realized that there was something out there just for her. When another author suggested she use the voices in her head for good and not evil, The Redwood Pack and all her other stories were born.
Carrie Ann is a bestselling author of over twenty novels and novellas and has so much more on her mind (and on her spreadsheets *grins*) that she isn’t planning on giving up her dream anytime soon.
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Hidden Ink Excerpt:
Soon she found herself with only one drink on her tray along with a single cherry and cream cheese pastry.
His favorite.
Behind Maya’s work area sat another station.
Sloane Gordon’s.
All six-foot-four, two hundred something pounds of muscle covered in ink, his light brown skin accented perfectly by the designs. The man was sex. All sex. Sloane had shaved his head years ago. She was convinced he kept it shaved just to turn her on. He kept his beard trimmed, but that and the bald head apparently jump-started a new kink in her.
Who knew?
He was a decade older than Hailey, and though he didn’t speak of it, she knew he’d been through war, battle, and heartbreak.
And she loved him.
Only he didn’t see her. He never took a step toward her. He also looked as if he were ready to growl at her presence most of the time.
Much like he did now.
“Thought you’d forgotten me,” he said, his voice low and gruff.
She shook her head then raised her chin. “No, I have yours here.” After she had handed him his drink and pastry, careful not to brush her fingers along his, she glanced down at his client, who was in the middle of getting his back done.
While Sloane looked dangerous and battle worn, this guy looked gentler, but not soft in the slightest. His hair was longer on top and flopped down over his forehead and into his eyes, but the sides had been clipped short. He had a short beard and a smile that looked as if it came easily. His green eyes sparkled, and Hailey could only smile back.
“Hello there,” he drawled.
Oh, my. A southern accent—just a hint of drawl but not too much. If she hadn’t been in the presence of the one man her body and soul had chosen for her, she might have gone weak in the knees at the sound of it.
“Hi,” she said back, well aware that Sloane was staring daggers at her.
“What’s your name?” the stranger asked. “I’m Brody.”
“Hi, Brody. I’m Hailey. I own Taboo next door.”
His smile widened, showing a bit of dimple. “I’ve walked by there a few times, but now I know I need to go inside.”
She shook her head on a laugh. “I see. You scent my baked goods and now you’ll come inside.”
“It wasn’t your baked goods that made me want to step inside.”
What was she doing? Flirting with another man in front of Sloane like this? And why did she care? He wasn’t hers. He never would be. She would never have Sloane Gordon in her life beyond a few curt words and grunts of thanks. She was young, healthy, and alive. She should be able to flirt whenever she wanted.
