Her prince of the skies conjured bedtime tales to thrill and inflame her. How can she resist the magic of his massive charm?Jagger McCannAs a pilot and a lover, I’m the best there is. I’m choosy and I’m hard to please. You’ll only get one night, but it will be the night of your life.My life is perfect. Or it was, until I met her. Alexa. We were supposed to have one night. No strings, no regrets. … supposed to have one night. No strings, no regrets. But now I’m hooked and I can’t shake free, but I can almost never see her and when I do she runs away before midnight.
To win her, I call her late at night and craft naughty bedtime stories.
Well, if that’s what it takes, that’s what I’ll do because nothing else matters. I have to have her. I have to.
Alexa
So, after the most horrendous break-up, I’m living my wealthy, glamorous step-sister’s life while she jets off halfway around the world with her too-perfect beau. Super high thread-count luxury silk sheets? Check. Big, soft, sumptuous bed? Check. Gorgeous bathroom with oils and beauty products for endless, shameless pampering? And a Manhattan view to die for? Check, Check, Check.
All that’s missing is the tiny detail, well, preferably massive detail, of a man.
Ah, well. BFF says, “Party,” and ‘BING’ we’re off to a glamorous opening. And who should I meet but the hottest hard-bodied hunk of growl-inducing, pant-wettingly delicious man. Oh, boy. Off to his hotel suite for the night of… well, you get the picture, right? Mmm, and believe me, it’s a BIG picture. You know what I mean?
He’s the ‘one-night only’ type of a guy, and that suits me just fine.
Only it doesn’t. He wants more and, after what I had, oh, boy, so do I.
But I’m so not ready for a relationship and, besides, I can’t let him find out that I’m not the glamor girl he thinks I am.
Oh, but the stories he tells me on the phone… How long can I resist him?
Come join Alice May Ball in this delightful standalone tale. Guaranteed to leave your breath coming in short pants and your tummy a-quiver. No cheating, no cliffhangers. GURANTEED super-melty HEA. This Special First Edition includes an Exclusive Bonus Story. (That one is also HOTTTT!)more
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This is a beautiful piece of fantasy fairy tale storytelling anchored in the reality of a newly single woman in modern day New York City. What strikes the reader as poignant, profound even, is the one beautiful truth of the classic Cinderella fairy tale that goes beyond the “one day my prince will come and rescue me from my woeful circumstances and we will live happily ever after” trope in the Cinderella fairy tale this author ingeniously captures. This overlooked “truth” is that when the prince comes to find Cinderella with the glass slipper, instead of seeing her attired glamorously as she was the night of the ball, the glass slipper fits on the foot of a lowly servant girl practically in rags with “cinders” on her face from her household duties and living in a lowly station in stepmother’s home and on her largess. Cinderella’s circumstance is inconsequential to the Prince. He loves her for her! She is beautiful beyond her station, beyond her normal attire.
So, too is our heroine, Alexa,on a time clock living a temporarily charmed life while housesitting for her wealthy stepsister in her luxurious apartment, going out in her designer clothes and shoes. Alexa is naturally beautiful, charming and witty. Her designer attire gives her an air of confidence and she shines like a star, or “a beautiful silvery fawn” as she is later alluded to in love story created by her “Captain”.
Our “fly boy” Captain Jagger McCann is quite something else. He is quite the lover whose glorious anatomy and reputation for his sensual skills precede him as a rule. He is 100% Alpha and a loves to hunt for his conquests assured there is no one who can resist his charm and prowess.
Of course the chemistry is potent when these two meet and the sex is sensational for both. Alexa keeping herself rooted in her reality makes a deal for a “one and done” encounter.
Something beyond “one and done” happened to both of them and Jagger touched unwittingly by this magic connection finally decides to get Alexa’s phone number before she whisks herself right out of his room and his life. However, our Captain is no prince charming at first. Their connection is tenuous and primarily physical at first. As they spend more time together, the Captain begins to realize that his desires are changing and he truly enjoys Alexa as a person, someone with whom to simply spend some time.
Alexa teasingly asks him to tell her a love story. His first story was a bit of a “fail”. But then as he is flying private jets around the world and talking to Alexa on the phone, his stories begin to take on more and more themes of true love and these stories allude to what is happening between Alexa and him.
Ms. Alice May Ball creates these intriguing “mise en abymes” in the narrative of the Captain. I just loved this creativity. And just as the prince searches far and wide for his Cinderella, the Captain through his storytelling is searching for the heart of his love, Alexa (even when he did not know it).
The reader is in for a treat with this author’s unique turn of phrase. The English is not pure American. There is a hint of something foreign. Even though the phrasing is not usual to the ear, the syntax is correct. I will say, that the typos do mar the beauty of the language somewhat and it is such a correctable error. I strongly encourage this author to do something about this.
There is a genuine sexiness and some passages can melt your kindle or whatever device on which you read it. The erotica is beautiful and moving. The last scene is quite something else. It is worth the price of admission. The author managed to add modern day reality and sizzling erotica to a cherished fairy tale while keeping the beauty and fantasy alive. Moreover, one of the important themes of the Cinderella fairytale is given center stage for the message it delivers. When your true love finds you, he will love you for you. This is the fantasy that you should bring to reality. Settle for nothing less.
I rate this book at 4.5. I always round up because of my respect for writers. I was given a ARC of this book. I loved it so, I purchased it. My thoughts and feelings are always my own. There are actually two books in this edition. A very nice value of sexy love story entertainment available in one click.
I really enjoyed the premise of the story and when you really start to get into it there are a few tell “tale” hints from some other fairy tales interwoven, which made the story even more enticing and fun to read.
As for Jagger – I never really warmed up to him -oh; I like him as a side dish -but his cocky attitude left me wanting to push him out of the plane without a chute more often than not –
Our princess, on the other hand, I really enjoyed. I liked her attitude and how she just rolled with the punches and got right back up