by Lauren Rowe
I look up from reading the note, my cheeks hot, my dick tingling.
“Well?” Louise asks. “Good news?”
“Great news.” I pull my phone out of my pocket and Google the address on the note and quickly discover it’s a professional-grade racetrack about forty minutes outside of Seattle, exactly as I figured. “Fantastic news,” I say. I kiss Louise and Gracie on their cheeks and gather my car keys off the counter. “Thanks for watching Gracie. We’ll be home around midnight, if not before.”
“Don’t rush home. Kat pumped before she left—we’ve got plenty of milk to tide us over.”
“Thank you so much.” I kiss Gracie again. “Bye, Little G. I love you, honey.”
“Guh,” Gracie says.
I sprint toward the exit of the kitchen.
“Hey, wait, honey,” Louise calls to my back. “Aren’t you hungry? Maybe you should take a little something to nibble on?”
“Good point.” I say. Quickly, I make a couple orgasm-inducing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches—one for me and one for my wife—and throw them into a bag with some apples and chips and bottles of water. “A meal fit for a king and queen,” I say. I wink at Louise. “Thanks again for watching Little G.”
“Have fun, honey,” Louise calls to my back.
“Oh, I will,” I yell back.
I race outside, hop into my fucking awesome new car, and peel out of the driveway of my fucking awesome house, my dick throbbing, my heart racing, my skin buzzing; and, once I’m driving smoothly on the highway, I press the button to call Kat through my wireless connection.
“Hey, Playboy,” Kat purrs into the phone. “Did you get my note?”
“I sure did,” I say. “I’m on my way.”
“Are you mad about dinner being cancelled?”
“Hell no. This is a much better offer. YOLO, right, babe?”
“Words to live by.”
“Especially for a guy who happens to have ’em stamped on his ass.”
“Amen.” Kat laughs. “Drive safe, my love. I can’t wait to celebrate your birthday in a manner befitting the one and only Playboy with the Heart of Gold. I’ve got a whole bunch of surprises waiting for you.” She snickers. “I sure hope you’re well rested.”
“Thanks, baby. You’re the best. I think you might know me better than I know myself sometimes.”
“Might? Sometimes? Of course, I do—and don’t you ever forget it. If there are two things I know in this life, it’s PR and Joshua William Faraday.”
I chuckle. “Truer words were never spoken, PG.”
“Okay, get off the phone, honey. Concentrate on your driving—I need you here in one piece or else you’ll fuck everything up.” She makes a sexual sound. “Oh, baby, I’m gonna give you a birthday present you’ll never, ever forget.”
“Oh, yeah, Party Girl?” I ask.
“Oh, yeah, Playboy,” she replies. “It’s gonna be so goooood.”
I laugh. “So that’s how this story ends, huh?”
“You don’t know how this story ends?” Kat asks.
“Well, yeah, I do—we fuck like rabbits.”
“Oh. Well, that’s a pretty damned good ending, I’d say.”
“And then we live happily ever after,” I add.
“Aw, amen, baby,” she says softly. “The best ending of all.”
“I love you, Kat,” I say quietly, my heart soaring. “I love you, I love you, I love you.”
“I love you, too, my beloved Joshua. With all my heart and soul.” She sighs on the other end of the line. “Forever.”
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Books by Lauren Rowe
Standalone Novels
Smitten
When aspiring singer-songwriter, Alessandra, meets Fish, the funny, adorable bass player of 22 Goats, sparks fly between the awkward pair. Fish tells Alessandra he’s a “Goat called Fish who’s hung like a bull. But not really. I’m actually really average.” And Alessandra tells Fish, “There’s nothing like a girl’s first love.” Alessandra thinks she’s talking about a song when she makes her comment to Fish—the first song she’d ever heard by 22 Goats, in fact. As she’ll later find out, though, her “first love” was
actually Fish. The Goat called Fish who, after that night, vowed to do anything to win her heart.
SMITTEN is a true standalone romance that will make you swoon.
Hate Love Duet
An addicting enemies to lovers romance with humor, heat, angst, and banter. Music artists Savage of Fugitive Summer and Laila Fitzgerald are stuck together on tour. And convinced they can’t stand each other. What they don’t know is that they’re absolutely made for each other, whether they realize it or not. The books of this duet are to be read in order:
Falling Out Of Hate With You
Falling Into Love With You
The Reed Rivers Trilogy
Reed Rivers has met his match in the most unlikely of women—aspiring journalist and spitfire, Georgina Ricci. She’s much younger than the women Reed normally pursues, but he can’t resist her fiery personality and drop-dead gorgeous looks. But in this game of cat and mouse, who’s chasing whom? With each passing day of this wild ride, Reed’s not so sure. The books of this trilogy are to be read in order:
Bad Liar
Beautiful Liar
Beloved Liar
The Club Trilogy
Romantic. Scorching hot. Suspenseful. Witty. The Club is your new addiction—a sexy and suspenseful thriller about two wealthy brothers and the sassy women who bring them to their knees . . . all while the foursome bands together to protect one of their own. The Club Trilogy is to be read in order, as follows:
The Club: Obsession
The Club: Reclamation
The Club: Redemption
The Club: Culmination
The fourth book for Jonas and Sarah is a full-length epilogue with incredible heart-stopping twists and turns and feels. Read The Club: Culmination (A Full-Length Epilogue Novel) after finishing The Club Trilogy or, if you prefer, after reading The Josh and Kat Trilogy.
The Josh and Kat Trilogy
It’s a war of wills between stubborn and sexy Josh Faraday and Kat Morgan. A fight to the bed. Arrogant, wealthy playboy Josh is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants is Kat Morgan. The books are to be read in order:
Infatuation
Revelation
Consummation
The Morgan Brothers
Read these standalones in any order about the brothers of Kat Morgan. Chronological reading order is below, but they are all complete stories. Note: you do not need to read any other books or series before jumping straight into reading about the Morgan boys.
Hero.
The story of heroic firefighter, Colby Morgan. When catastrophe strikes Colby Morgan, will physical therapist Lydia save him . . . or will he save her?
Captain.
The insta-love-to-enemies-to-lovers story of tattooed sex god, Ryan Morgan, and the woman he’d move heaven and earth to claim.
Ball Peen Hammer.
A steamy, hilarious, friends-to-lovers romantic comedy about cocky-as-hell male strippe
r, Keane Morgan, and the sassy, smart young woman who brings him to his knees during a road trip.
Mister Bodyguard.
The Morgans’ beloved honorary brother, Zander Shaw, meets his match in the feisty pop star he’s assigned to protect on tour.
ROCKSTAR.
When the youngest Morgan brother, Dax Morgan, meets a mysterious woman who rocks his world, he must decide if pursuing her is worth risking it all. Be sure to check out four of Dax’s original songs from ROCKSTAR, written and produced by Lauren, along with full music videos for the songs, on her website (www.laurenrowebooks.com) under the tab MUSIC FROM ROCKSTAR.
Misadventures
Lauren’s Misadventures titles are page-turning, steamy, swoony standalones, to be read in any order.
- Misadventures on the Night Shift –A hotel night shift clerk encounters her teenage fantasy: rock star Lucas Ford. And combustion ensues.
- Misadventures of a College Girl—A spunky, virginal theater major meets a cocky football player at her first college party . . . and absolutely nothing goes according to plan for either of them.
- Misadventures on the Rebound—A spunky woman on the rebound meets a hot, mysterious stranger in a bar on her way to her five-year high school reunion in Las Vegas and what follows is a misadventure neither of them ever imagined.
Standalone Psychological Thriller/Dark Comedy
Countdown to Killing Kurtis
A young woman with big dreams and skeletons in her closet decides her porno-king husband must die in exactly a year. This is not a traditional romance, but it will most definitely keep you turning the pages and saying “WTF?”
Short Stories
The Secret Note
Looking for a quickie? Try this scorching-hot short story from Lauren Rowe in ebook FOR FREE or in audiobook: He’s a hot Aussie. I’m a girl who isn’t shy about getting what she wants. The problem? Ben is my little brother’s best friend. An exchange student who’s heading back Down Under any day now. But I can’t help myself. He’s too hot to resist.
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Author Biography
Lauren Rowe is the USA Today and international #1 best-selling author of newly released Reed Rivers Trilogy, as well as The Club Trilogy, The Josh & Kat Trilogy, The Morgan Brothers Series, Countdown to Killing Kurtis, and select standalone Misadventures.
Lauren's books are full of feels, humor, heat, and heart. Besides writing novels, Lauren is the singer in a party/wedding band in her hometown of San Diego, an audio book narrator, and award-winning songwriter. She is thrilled to connect with readers all over the world.
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