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Blurb

Lucas Thorn wasn’t born a cheater. All it took was a single moment—say, a certain disastrous incident on the night before his wedding—and boom. Reputation destroyed forever and always. So now he owns it. He has a lady friend for every night of the week (except Sundays—God’s day and all), and his rules are simple: No commitments. No exceptions.

But a certain smart-mouthed, strawberry blonde vixen is about to blow that all to hell.

Avery Black has never forgiven Lucas for cheating on her sister. And suddenly being forced to work with him is pretty much a nightmare on steroids. Of course, it does afford her the opportunity to make his life as difficult as possible. But no good revenge scheme comes without payback. Because he didn’t become the Lucas Thorn without learning a few things about women.

Now Avery’s lust for vengeance has turned into, well, lust. And if Lucas stops cheating, it’s definitely not because he’s falling in love…

EXCERPT:

Shaking, I ran my hands through my hair and was about ready to have a nervous breakdown when my phone rang.

“Yeah?” I grabbed my coat and headed out of the restaurant.

“She’s a clinger.” That’s all Thatch had to say before I burst out laughing. “She asked for my phone number.”

“How else is she supposed to have another booty call with the good doctor?” I grinned like a smug bastard, enjoying his panic, and then I warned him to stay away. “You know this is your fault, right? You know that inviting a woman to your apartment usually means that she’ll start envisioning her shit all over the place—and next thing you know, she’s about to have your baby.”

“SHE’S NOT PREGNANT!” He started cursing again. “Look, you know I have commitment issues.”

“No.” I rolled my eyes. “Shocker.”

“Like you should talk, you selfish bastard.” Thatch sighed loudly. “Break up with her for me?”

“Not a chance in hell.”

“But—”

“Nope.”

“Lucas Thorn.”

“Maybe if you had tits, and even then, that just makes shit weird, Thatch.”

I hit the elevator button and waited while Thatch started complaining about why sex can’t just be sex.

“You’re telling me.” I snorted into the phone. “Look, I gotta go. Just remember Austin and Avery are best friends, meaning, you screw her, her friend is most likely going to try to find a way to screw me. Girls go to the bathroom together. If they do the nonserious stuff in teams, you bet your ass they’re going to treat a breakup the same way.”

“That really wasn’t helpful, not at all, Lucas.”

“Or”—I shrugged and hit the button for my floor—“you could just make the sex really, really bad next time, say, finishing in like thirty seconds and screaming ‘Porcupine!’ or something.”

He was quiet, then said, “I can’t decide if that’s genius or stupid.”

“You never know until you try. Think of Christopher Columbus. Everyone thought he was stupid for sailing toward the New World, and look! He proved them wrong. The earth was in fact round, my friend.”

“Did you just compare yourself to someone who discovered an actual continent? Because it seems like you did, and this is after you told me to yell ‘Porcupine!’ when I orgasm.”

“Well, when you repeat it back like that . . .” I grumbled as the elevator doors opened to my floor. “Look, I gotta go. Leave me out of it though.”

“No promises,” he said just as I ended the conversation and greedily searched for Avery.

She wasn’t behind her desk.

Nor was she under it—I had to check because hiding and pouncing was exactly the kind of thing I could imagine her doing, just so she could scare the shit out of me and get it on camera or something. Then again, she wasn’t seventeen anymore, but this was still Avery we were talking about. Ergo, I still looked.

Frowning, I turned around in an effort to casually strut into my office and slammed right into Avery, knocking her backward onto her ass.

Folders went everywhere.

Papers scattered across the floor.

And her wedged heels somehow managed to fall from her feet, though they still dangled around her ankles.

“Are you okay?” I leaned down to grab her hand, but she didn’t take mine.

“Yeah.” Her cheeks reddened. “Sorry, I was just dropping off some files, and then I saw that these were addressed to another department and thought I could drop them off and . . .” Her voice trailed off as she flashed me a worried look, like I was going to fire her any minute.

Instantly feeling like an ass, I grabbed her by the waist and hoisted her into the air. “I’m not going to fire you.”

“Okay,” she huffed, tears welling in her eyes.

“Shit, Avery.” Earlier I’d been taking out my frustration with my family on her. Apparently, the distance and years hadn’t changed this aspect of our relationship, because this was a familiar pattern. I made her feel bad or guilty about something that wasn’t her fault—something she had no control over.

Especially the fact that I was extremely attracted to her—and knew it was wrong then, just like it was wrong now.

My Review:

It was my first Rachel Van Dyken book. But why??? Why haven't I read her books yet? I loved her style. I have The Matchmaker's Playbook on my kindle, but I haven't read it yet. I will read it as soon as I have time. 😊

So about this book... I LOVED IT! It was so funny! I enjoyed reading it! And I couldn't put it down.

"Nobody ever tells this side of the story - but it's important. Cheaters aren't born, they're made. Never forget that. You don't wake up one day and decide to cheat, you don't make a career out of it, and you sure as hell don't want to end up hurting an endless number of people for your own psychotic reasons."~Lucas

The Prologue was so perfect! It made me curious, and I couldn't wait to dive in!

I knew Lucas was a 'cheater', and I couldn't be one of his women, but I couldn't hate him. YES I loved him. He was so hot and funny. And I think finally everyone fall in love with him. 💓 I didn't like his lifestyle, but I found it interesting. What I didn't like his past. He was found in bed with his fiancée's sister before his wedding. And from this time, he decided he was a cheater, and started his new lifestyle: he had 6 women, different woman every day.

"They say every man has a story. Mine started the night I was found in bed with my fiancée's sister."~Lucas

"I sleep with a different girl every day of the week - except Sunday. That's God's day, so I hand out with my sister, Erin"~Lucas

Avery is Lucas' exfiancée's little sister (not the one who was found in bed with Lucas). She is much younger than Lucas, she is only 22. Lucas is 32. Sometimes this bothered me a little, because we could see she was young from their conversations. But she was a likeable character too.

"Hating him was difficult. Being attracted to him was inevitable."~Avery

"That's the thing about crushes - if you're lucky, they go away and you find someone so incredible that the whole crush is laughable, a distant memory you think about or maybe dream about once every three years after having too much sangria." ~Avery

I loved them together. I loved their 'fights'. I was laughing a lot! And I couldn't wait Avery to let Lucas have her. The sexual tension was so thick. They wanted each other, but Avery was afraid. She didn't want to be one of his partners, she didn't want to share him. Understandable. And Lucas was afraid too, because he didn't know whether he was capable of being in a relationship. He was afraid that he want others too.

I loved to read about how their feelings were developing.

"I love you. When you love someone, you let them win - not every battle but at least the ones that matter." ~Lucas

I loved the whole book, I couldn't say anything bad or negative about it! One of my favorites in 2017!

Véleményem:

Ez volt az első könyvem az írónőtől. De miért? Miért nem olvastam hamarabb tőle? Nagyon tetszett a stílusa. Még egy könyve megtalálható az ebook olvasómon, de még nem olvastam. Ezek után biztos olvasni fogom, amint lesz időm rá. 😊
Tehát a könyvről... IMÁDTAM! Alig tudtam letenni, élveztem az olvasást.
Már a bevezetés tökéletes volt, nagyon érdekessé tett, alig vártam, hogy kezdhessem a könyvet.
Lucas egy pasi aki 'megcsal' másokat, több barátnője van egyszerre. Én nem tudnék egy lenni közülük, de nem tudtam utálni Lucast. IGEN szerettem őt, mert szexi és vicces volt. És úgy gondolom előbb utóbb mindenki beleszeret. 💓 Nem tetszett az életstílusa, de érdekesnek találtam. Amit nem szerettem, az a múltja. Az esküvője előtt ágyban találták a menyasszonya testvérével... Innentől kezdve új életet kezdett, és minden nap más nővel volt. Minden napra volt egy nője.
Avery Lucas ex-menyasszonyának kishúga (nem az akivel ágyban találták). Ő jóval fiatalabb mint Lucas. Lucas 32 éves, Avery pedig csak 22. Néha ez azért egy kicsit zavart, mert a párbeszédeikből nagyon kivehető hogy Avery mennyivel fiatalabb. De ő is szerethető karakter.
Szerettem őket együtt. Szerettem olvasni a vitáikat. Sokat nevettem. Alig vártam, hogy Avery beadja a derekát. Erős volt a vonzalom közöttük, akarták egymást de Avery félt. Nem akart egy lenni a partnerei közül, nem akart osztozkodni rajta. Érthető. De Lucas is félt. Nem tudta, hogy képes-e kapcsolatban élni, nem akar majd e mást is.
Szerettem arról olvasni, hogy alakultak ki az érzelmeik egymás iránt.
Szerettem az egész könyvet! Nem tudok negatív vagy rossz dolgot mondani róla. Egyik kedvencem lett 2017-ben!

About the Author:

Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she's not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.

She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband, adorable son, and two snoring boxers! She loves to hear from readers!

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