Title:
Beauty
From Pain
Author:
Georgia
Cates
Release
date: January 31, 2013
Genre:
Contemporary romance
Age
Group: Adult
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Description:
They agreed on three months...but their love knew no
boundaries.
Jack McLachlan is a winemaking magnate and easily
one of Australia’s most eligible bachelors. His success and wealth makes him no
stranger to the complications of romantic relationships and that’s why he goes
to extreme measures to avoid the hassle. He prefers simplicity in the form of a
beautiful female companion with no strings attached. He arranges relationships
like business deals and they’re always the same. No long term relationships. No
real names.
It’s his game and his rules. He’s content to play as
usual, but when Laurelyn Prescott enters his life, his strategy must change
because this player is like none he's ever encountered. His world is turned on
its head after he begins a three month affair with the beautiful American
musician. Nothing goes according to plan and as he breaks more and more of his
own rules for her, she’s exceptionally close to becoming something he never
thought possible. His ultimate game changer.
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About
the Author:
Georgia resides in rural Mississippi with her
wonderful husband, Jeff, and their two beautiful daughters. She spent fourteen
years as a labor and delivery nurse before she decided to pursue her dream of
becoming an author and hasn’t looked back yet.
When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about
writing. When she’s being domestic, she’s listening to her iPod and visualizing
scenes for her current work in progress. Every story coming from her always has
a song to inspire it.
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Beauty
from Pain Excerpt #2
Laurelyn Prescott’s POV
I unlock the door and
all but fall inside the empty apartment. Addison is out with Zac for their
first postcoital date. I have no idea where Ben is, but I’m glad to be alone. I
don’t want to explain why I’ve returned from a date with a man I can’t name.
It’s
still early but nothing is on television, so I change into my pajamas and go to
bed. Sleep doesn’t find me easily because my mind keeps racing with thoughts of
what Mr. Nameless has asked me to do.
It’s
shocking. It’s bizarre. It’s interesting.
His
proposal sounds so wrong, but it’s a fascinating idea. I’d never had a
relationship where I didn’t walk away hurt. With what he’s proposing, I know
how things would end. There would be no chance of a broken heart. He said it
would be the best three months of my life. I’d experience new and wonderful
things. He’d make my fantasies come true.
It
takes hours for me to doze off because I can’t stop thinking about the things
Nameless said. But I do fall asleep, only to be awakened by Addison sneaking
into our bedroom again. Does she think that Ben is stupid? He has to know what
she’s doing with Zac.
I
look at the clock: 6:27 a.m. this time. She almost made it to a reasonable
hour.
She
slides into bed next to me. “Tell me I’m not going to wake up to this for the
next three months,” I say.
“I
make no promises. I see you’re here so the good-looking suit must not have been
a serial-killing weirdo. How did it go?”
She
was dead wrong about the weirdo part. “It was a bizarre date to say the least.”
“I’m
finding out Aussie guys are different.”
I
can think of many words to describe Nameless, but none do him justice. There
needs to be a new word for what he is. “Different doesn’t even begin to cover
what this guy asked me to do.”
“Ooh,
that doesn’t sound good.”
“My
first thoughts were that it was crazy, but now I’m not sure. I’ve had time to
think about it … and it might be sort of hot.”
Addison
sits straight up in the bed. I have her full attention. “What did he do? Ask
you to give him a hand job under the table at dinner?”
I
can’t bring myself to tell her the part about how he wouldn’t tell me his name
or anything personal about his life. “He asked me to date him for the next
three months and then walk away without any further contact.”
She
lies back on the bed. “So, the guy isn’t into long-distant relationships? Seems
pretty reasonable since you’ll be nine thousand miles away. Zac and I sort of
have the same arrangement.”
No,
it’s not the same, but I can’t tell her the rest. “I guess. He told me he was
rich and he would make the next three months of my life the best I’ve ever had.
He said he’d make my fantasies come true.”
“Umm,
the best three months of your life and fantasies coming true? What’s holding
you back?”
“It
just seems pointless to date someone when I know it’s going to end in three
months.” And then there’s the whole issue of having sex with someone I don’t
love. I’m not sure I can do that.
“You’re
overthinking it, Laurelyn. The guy’s rich and he promises you the best three
months of your life. It’s a no-brainer.”
I
can’t believe I’m considering it. “You think I should do this?”
“If
you don’t, will you go home and wonder what you might have missed?”
The
answer is clear. “Of course I would.”
There’s
a knock at our bedroom door. “Come in,” Addison says. Ben opens it.
“There’s
a delivery in here.”
Addison’s
face lights up. “What kind of delivery?”
“It’s
flowers and a catered breakfast.”
“Awesome!”
she says, throwing back the covers. “See? I told you I knew how to play the
game.” It looks like Ben is going to find out about Zac sooner than she’d
planned.
We
walk into the kitchen and there’s a floral arrangement on the counter next to a
basket of breakfast pastries. Addison holds a bottle of champagne in one hand
and orange juice in the other. “Mimosas for breakfast. Can you believe that?
And this isn’t cheap champagne. It’s expensive. Very expensive.”
She
takes the card from the blank envelope and her smile fades after she reads it.
“Oh. This isn’t for me.”
I
feel a surge of hope. Could all of this be for me? From him, the man with no
name? “What does the card say?”
She
holds it up. “‘You won’t regret saying yes.’ It’s signed, ‘from Lachlan.’”
I
smile, but bite my lip in a failed attempt to hide my pleasure. His name is
Lachlan.
I’m
confused by this unexpected confession. He said names weren’t part of the game,
so what has changed? Maybe he decided he is more interested in a normal
relationship than the bizarre one he proposed last night.
I
pluck the card from Addison’s hand because I want to read it for myself. I rub
my thumb over his written words. The penmanship is masculine. I’m sure he
signed it personally.
I
hear a pop as Addison opens the champagne. “Laurie, this guy is jockeying hard
for you, girl.”
Ben’s
arms are crossed and he looks pissed. “Come on. You just met this guy. Doesn’t
this seem like a little much?”
“I’d
love it if a guy did this for me.” Addison tops up her champagne with some
orange juice. “This is a guaranteed panty-dropper in my book.”
“Addison!”
Ben
storms out of the kitchen and slams his bedroom door. “You shouldn’t have said
that in front of him, and we both know why.”
Addison
reaches for a pastry. “Oh, he’ll get over it. So, what are you gonna do?”
There’s
nothing wrong with trying it. If it doesn’t feel right, I can always back out.
“He asked me to meet him tonight if I wanted to discuss it further. I think I’m
going to go.”
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