From USA Today bestselling author, Laura Lee, comes a witty and sexy office romance that’s sure to make your temperature rise. It can’t get much worse than finding your fiancé banging his secretary over the back of your couch, right?Wrong.Try discovering your unforgettable, dirty talking, arrogant as f*ck one-night stand is your new boss. The same man that you hate with a fiery passion but your … same man that you hate with a fiery passion but your traitorous body refuses to read the memo.
I’ll admit, Liam Maxwell’s cockiness is not unwarranted–in the bedroom or the boardroom–but I’m a professional. I refuse to let an inconvenient attraction affect my career. I’ll just have to do what I do best: manage the situation objectively.
Why do I get the feeling that’s going to be much easier said than done?
Note: This is the first installment in the Bedding the Billionaire world. This novella was previously published in the Temptations boxed set collection under the title, Bad PR. (No longer available) The content has since been revised.
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I’m actually giving this 4 and 1/2 stars. I loved Avery and Liam. Avery catches her husband cheating so she goes out and hooks up with Liam. The sexual chemistry is off the charts but it was only for one night. Or so she thinks. Liam knows who she is and is impressed by her career. When he learns she has left the company she was working for he sets up an offer she cant refuse to work for him. She thinks this is a new chance to start fresh and is surprised when she walks in and her one night stand is Liam. Even more surprising to find out he knew who she was all along. Will they give into their sexual chemistry? Loved this short read but I wished there were a little more character and relationship development
Avery catches her fiance cheating and hooks up with a guy to feel better. She’s shocked when she goes to meet her new boss and her seriously sexy one-night stand is looking back at her. These two will fight the attracting at every turn as inter-office relations aren’t something either of them are interested in but what will happen when they cave? Will the head or the heart win out? This is a good book, definitely worth your time.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I was underwhelmed by this short, sexy read. I didn’t feel any real chemistry between the characters except sexually. There was no real story here just an alpha male who wants what he doesn’t think he can have and a take no prisoners female. The characters could have been developed more, especially Liam, and maybe that would have made it more interesting for me. But every part of their relationship seemed underdeveloped and rushed. I love romance novels, especially those with some steamy sex scenes but this was just sexual encounters, a little erotica, and no romance. Just not for me.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I usually love the enemies-to-lovers and office romance tropes, which is why I wanted to read Laura Lee’s “Public Relations.” As it turned out, I did enjoy those aspects of the story. I thought that the emotional growth of the relationship between Liam and Avery was nicely paced, and they didn’t exchange “I love yous” too fast. It was a good idea to have time jumps of several months between some of the chapters to really allow the “enemies-to-lovers” aspect of their relationship to develop.
That being said, I couldn’t get past the fact that Liam was just too much of a dominant a**hole for my tastes. His behavior towards Avery on the day she came to work for him made me very uncomfortable, to be honest. He was very aggressive, and it almost felt like it bordered on sexual harassment to me. He didn’t come out and say, “You must sleep with me to keep this job,” but he didn’t really give her much choice in the matter. He immediately summoned her to his office because he decided that they needed to bang each other out of their systems, or whatever, before she started work, and the next thing she knew, she was bent over his couch!
When they started sleeping together again a few months later, Liam was once again the pursuer, and he did it after hours by forcing Avery to leave a date to return to the office. Again, there seemed to me to be an implied threat of “You must do this if you want to keep your job.” It was all about what Liam wanted, and he seemed to use the fact that he was Avery’s boss to make sure she complied. Ultimately, Avery did want to be with Liam, so I don’t think she’d agree that he harassed her. However, the fact that it made me so uncomfortable was a real turn off and detracted from my enjoyment of the book.
Then there was Liam and Avery’s sexual relationship. I was expecting it to be very steamy based on the book’s description, and normally I’m OK with that, but to me, this bordered on erotica in some places. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it’s just not my cup of tea. Also, Liam was really into anal sex. He brought it up at least 3 or 4 times, and there was an extended, detailed sex scene that included anal near the end of the book. Again, that is really not my thing, and had I known that it was going to be so explicitly included in this story, I wouldn’t have read it.
Bottom line, even though I didn’t love this book, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t readers out there who will love it. It just wasn’t for me.
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
A quick easy hot read, one I have read previously. I love fiery strong h’s who give as good as they get. Liam was a bit OTT at times & I think Avery was the only one with a level head. The cheating ex got his comeuppance too!
Our strong lady finally tamed her man.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. 3.5*