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338 pages, Paperback
First published January 11, 2013
“Baby, you’ve fucked my mind without touching my body.”
“But the heart wants what the heart wants.”
Our precious time together feels like a candle with wicks burning at both ends. Once the flame meets in the middle, we’re over. I’ll never see him again, or hear his laugh or touch his skin. I’ll never share a bed with him again. Am I prepared for it when that time comes? I don’t think I am, but it doesn’t matter if I’m not. It’s coming, and I’d better figure out how to get ready.
“When the three months is over, so are we. I'll move on and you will too. Because you won't know my name or any identifying information about me, you'll have no way to contact me. Ever.”
“I know in that moment that I'll never be able to tell him no to anything. I want to be the woman to make his fantasies real.”
“I know he has something in mind because this man doesn't fly by the seat of his pants. He's done this enough to be calculating, his every move premeditated.”
“I think the odds of her killing me with sex are good, but what a way to go. At least I'll die happy.”
“Our precious time together feels like a candle with wicks burning at both ends. Once the flame meets in the middle, we're over.”
“Baby, you’ve fucked with my mind without touching my body.”
“My life is complicated for reasons I won’t discuss. When it comes to dating I need it to be simple and undemanding. Disclosing my identity complicates things, so you wouldn’t know my real name.”
“You’re not joking.”
I can’t read her reaction. I have no idea if she’s on board or freaking out. “When the three months is over, so are we. I’ll move on and you will too. Because you won’t know my name or any identifying information about me, you’ll have no way to contact me. Ever.”
“The three months we spend together would be the best of your life. You’d never be able to top what you’d experience with me.”
She sits back and laughs. “Well at least you’re not egotistical.”
“Don’t leave. I want you to be with me.” … I swallow before I say the words that will change this relationship forever. “You’re the one I need.”
“If I do this, something will go wrong and this man will hurt me. I know it as sure as I’m sitting here next to him feeling how much he makes me want to say yes.”What Jack soon realizes is that Laurelyn is nothing like the women he has ever been with. She’s open, funny, and sexy and has something that gets under his skin, having you doing things that he has never done with other women.
“My lasagne has been known to bring me to the knees."Their emotional connection, their friendship, and sexual tension. The “sex” scenes were incredibly sensual and so sexy and so hot.
"Baby, it doesn’t take food for you to bring me to my knees.”
“Don’t leave. I want you to be with me.”And Laurelyn – I loved her….she was someone so special…despite a horrible childhood, a flaky mom, betrayals in her life is still open to the possibilities of life…love, caring, sharing.
“You’ll have your family.”
I swallow before I say the words that will change this relationship forever. “You’re the one I need.”
“But that would mean meeting your family.”
It does, and I’m okay with that if it means she’s by my side. “I don’t care. I need you to be with me.”
She smiles and cradles my face with her hands. “Of course. I’ll come if it’s what you want, but this is going to change everything.”
“I know, but it’s what I want.”
“She has bewitched me. And I want her. She’s the one.”….why the hell did you let her go????
“I love her too much to let her leave and I need to tell her right this minute.”
“Liar, liar. My pants are so on fire. And so is the rest of me.”The settings were really great. Australia wine farms, exciting cities, and small towns. Loved it.
“Nothing speaks louder than your heart. Listen to what it's telling you.”I read this book NON-STOP. I couldn’t put it down. I am so invested in the story and Jack & Laurelyn that I can’t wait for the next “part” of their love story – which it is ….an amazing LOVE STORY.
HOW ON EARTH TO EXPLAIN ALL THESE FEELINGS?
"You're mine. Do you understand?"
"Yes!" I scream partly because it's my answer, but mostly because what he's doing feels so good.
"I want you to say it."
We're sideways on the bed and each thrust shoves me farther across the mattress until my head is hanging off the edge. "I'm...yours...and...no...one...else's."
"No one else touches you here like this."
I'm panting as I lift my hips against him and his fingers. "Only you, Lachlan."
I'm on my back and I stare up at the beautiful sheer panels draped over the canopy above us with one thought- this bed was meant for making love, but that isn't what we just did. It never is.
"Baby you've fucked my mind without touching my body."
Once upon time
A few mistakes ago
I was in your sights
You got me alone
You found me
You found me
You found me
I guess you didn't care
And I guess I liked that
And when I fell hard
You took a step back
Without me, without me, without me
And he's long gone
When he's next to me
And I realize the blame is on me
Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So shame on me now
Flew me to places i'd never been
So you put me down oh
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So shame on me now
Flew me to places i'd never been
Now i'm lying on the cold hard ground
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
No apologies
He'll never see you cry
Pretend he doesn't know
That he's the reason why
You're drowning, you're drowning, you're drowning…
Book 2 where are you?? Sarcasm inserted here:
I had a dream last night…..
I'm reading a book that is a stand-alone single book that has that elusive Happily Ever After.
….
Then I wake up.
Another Mother-effing @$#%&^%$ cliffhanger!
Sadistic authors. They do so love to torture. My frustration is in direct proportion to how good this book is. Way up there. This is my first read by this author and I can already tell you I will be checking out her other books…yes I know, I am a masochist. Sue me.
This book starts out with Jack McLachlan, (aka Lachlan aka Jack Henry) sitting in a bar on the hunt for his next prey. He is selfish, calculating, and unapologetic about it. His m.o. is finding agreeable women to have a purely sexual relationship for an agreed upon amount of time where they know nothing about each other. Not even their real names. Usually these only last a few weeks but he is ready to find someone to use for 3 months this time. Then they part and never contact each other again. Well, he's about to be in for a rude awakening. And her name is Laurelyn.
Laurelyn is visiting Australia with her best friend for 3 months and escaping from a painful history in order to make some big life choices. She's a talented musician, honest, funny, and beautiful. The whole package. Love her. She meets Jack her first night there and Jack pursues her ruthlessly to agree to his "deal".
The more time they spend together, the more rules Jack wants to break with Laurelyn. She blows him away with her sweetness, vulnerability, honesty, and sexiness. How can he give her up? He's determined to do just that. Stubborn man. We see a metamorphosis from detached and selfish to affectionate, possessive, and battling his feelings with every step. Laurelyn brings him to his knees (literally) and as the end of their three months approaches, they both come to realize that this relationship is so far from what they planned it's in another hemisphere.
This book kept me on edge, smiling, laughing, and cursing. Loved the fact that it was set in Australia. I've read quite a bit of Brit Lit but this was new for me and I loved learning some Aussie slang. ( sanger for brekkie anyone?)
This is a fabulous book and I will definitely be picking up book two this summer.
I slide off the bed to my knees in front of her and wrap my arms around her legs. “I’m so sorry for not treating you the way I should have, Laurelyn.”
You made my every fantasy come
true and that includes finding the love of my life. Now, it’s my turn to keep my promise.
I love you, Jack Henry, with every fiber of my being. Forever.
Laurelyn
Your American girl.
But I did fall in love with her, and now she’s gone.
I’ve known pain my whole life, but this is a new kind for me. It isn’t born of something wrong or ugly. This pain is conceived out of beauty—my love for Jack Henry McLachlan. I embrace it. I clutch it as tightly as I can with both fists because I never want to forget the love I have for him. Loving him will forever be my Beauty from Pain.
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They agreed to three months...
But their love knew no boundaries.
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“When the three months is over, so are we. I'll move on and you will too. Because you won't know my name or any identifying information about me, you'll have no way to contact me. Ever."
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"I’m a very wealthy man. The three months we spend together would be the best of your life. You’d never be able to top what you’d experience with me... I'd make your fantasies a reality.”
"Sounds like you need an escort or a prostitute, and I'm neither of those things."
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She makes me want to break down and tell her everything. It’s strange -- I’ve never wanted to do that before. She makes me want to do lots of new things.
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The pain is conceived out of beauty - my love for Jack Henry McLachlan. I embrace it. I clutch it as tightly as I can with both fists because I never want to forget the love I have for him. Loving him will forever be my Beauty from Pain.
"You don't always know the true worth of a woman's love until it becomes a memory."
"Right now, all I'm thinking about is how I'm going to get you in my bed so I can show you all the ways I can make you come."
"Listen to me, Laurelyn. The best way to get over somebody is to get under someone else."
"How can you think it's possible to have something this hot without one of us getting burned?"
“You might as well be the devil.”
“Baby, you’re the one holding the apple.
I didn’t love you the day I met you, or even a month later. But somewhere between hello and the goodbye I’m unable to bear, I fell desperately in love with you.
I’ve known pain my whole life, but this is a new kind for me. It isn’t born of something wrong or ugly. This pain is conceived out of beauty– my love for Jack Henry McLachlan.