USA Today bestselling author Stacey Kennedy returns to the passion-filled world of Club Sin and Dirty Little Secrets with this novella featuring a slightly flawed Dom who has six days—and six very steamy nights—on a Caribbean cruise to convince an innocent woman from his past that maybe the best way for two broken people to find true love is to jump headfirst into the deep end of desire.Liv … to jump headfirst into the deep end of desire.
Liv Sloane needs a vacation. After her cheating ex broke her heart—and their engagement—Liv never fully recovered. In fact, she’s spent the past two years avoiding romance at all costs… with the exception of that sizzling one-night stand she can’t seem to forget. So when her friends from college suggest a reunion cruise, Liv knows a relaxing week of sun, sand, and beach reads is exactly what she needs to clear her mind. But when they board the ship, Liv is hit with two surprises. Her friends accidentally booked a singles cruise, and her one-night stand is waiting on deck.
Miles Schantz has spent the past three months thinking about Liv. As a Dom at one of the hottest sex clubs in Las Vegas, Miles has his pick of women… so why can’t he get Liv out of his head? When he receives an email asking him to join Liv on a cruise, he can’t believe his luck. But when he meets her on board—and she’s completely unaware of her “invitation”— Miles has to come up with a new plan. Six nights of no-strings-attached passion. Six nights of wild fantasies, sexy games, and forbidden adventures. Six nights to show Liv that she belongs with him…
Five friends. One singles cruise. So many sexy shenanigans. Be sure to check out all of the standalone Gone Wild books!
Kissing Kendall by Katee Robert
Gaming Grace by Piper J. Drake
Attracting Aubrey by Avery Flynn
Beguiling Benjamin by Robin Covington
Loving Liv by Stacey Kennedy
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loved Liv & Miles story, they had sexy steamy chemistry that was off the hook, A must read, Loved it Stacey
This was a good finish to the series! I thought Miles and Liv were good together, and their chemistry was hot! There is some elements of BDSM in this story, but I didn’t feel like it was over the top. Miles and Liv have a little bit of a past, but nothing too dramatic. I thought Miles was a good hero, and I liked him. Liv was good for the most part, but she did get annoying at times. I really wanted her to be able to let go of the past. It’s not like it had only been months, it had been years. The ending was sweet, and I loved that they were able to be together. The epilogue was great, and tied everything together.
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced readers copy of this book.
4.5 Stars
I’ve been loving this series written by different authors. Some of them are my faves and Stacey Kennedy is one of them. I was instantly hooked on this book. A singles cruise is not what this group of college friends anticipated, but one they might need. I loved watching Liv blossom in this book. Miles brings out a passionate side to Liv that she never knew she had in her. This book does have bdsm elements to it, but it is tastefully done. Miles and Liv’s chemistry burns hot. You may find yourself fanning yourself during those parts. There is also plenty of heart and feels in the book. The epilogue was the perfect touch to end this series on. It made my heart happy and the last chapter Miles’ grand gesture swoon worthy!
5 deliciously sensual at first sight Master Miles … yes please! STARS
I love all things Stacey Kennedy. I’ve loved this woman since I read the Club Sin series years ago. If there’s an author out there that I know will deliver on the sexy, its Stacey! EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. Master Miles delivered 🙂 in spades! *shivers*
I felt Miles deeply. His insta attraction to Liv sparked off the pages and was woven into the story perfectly. Liv’s reluctance to this force was also deeply embedded into the story LOL which is coincidentally, my only point of discord with this book. It would have been explosive had Liv just let go but daaaaaaaaaaamn that girl took her sweet time letting Miles in!!! Even with that, this book was fantastic.
The concept behind this series is fantastic. I had a chance to read 4 out of the 5 books back to back and it made for an excellent reading experience all around! Well done ladies!!
Hurt badly by her cheating fiance Liv puts up a wall around her heart. One wild hook up with a sexy dom Miles has reignited a spark in her but still scorned and the fact they live in two different states has her pushing away any prospect of a relationship. Set to leave on a single cruise with her Best friends she runs into Miles who claims she sent him an invite. Miles convinces her to give him the duration of the cruise to see if there is anything between them. This was a enjoyable story as Miles introduced Liv to his world as a Dominate. This was hot, sweet fast read. I can’t wait to go and read the Club Sin series.
I received an ARC and volunteered to leave a review.
4 1/2 STARS!
Filled with heat, heart and happily ever afters! With the final book in the Gone Wild series, Stacey Kennedy delights readers with some familiar Club Sin faces! The characters were fresh and easy to relate to and the steam was off the charts!
After a heartbreak, Liz is wary … of men, of love, of ever losing herself in that way again. She’s really easy to relate to and sympathize with.
Miles is heart stopping. He hasn’t been able to get Liz off his mind since their one night together months ago, yet can’t get her to agree to see him again. He can tell she’s skittish and is more than willing to ease her into a comfort zone when fate … and a little helper … put them together on this cruise.
I highly recommend this book as well as the whole series for anyone wanting a fast paced story line filled with fun characters, friendships and lots of yummy sexy times. Really enjoyed the series!
Liv and Miles are hot! I really liked their storyline, since it wasn’t just a random meet up on board the ship, but planned by someone who knew one of the in advance. That added a little intrigue into a fun and very frisky couple! Word of warning, Miles is Dom, which I know could turn so readers off. While there isn’t a lot of the lifestyle acted upon in this book, he’s very up honest about it.
Above and beyond that, Miles does his best to bring Liv out of herself and help her experience fun, which she’s held herself back from since her ex cheated on her. I found Miles attention to her outside the bedroom even hotter than in, as his focus was always on her and what she wanted and needed. Not that their adult time wasn’t hot as hades…it certainly was!
Stacey Kennedy was a new to me author, but Loving Liv was so great, it springboarded me to binge read the Club Sin series! I’m so very glad this series introduced me to not just great stories but great authors as well!
Liv’s heart is encased in ice ever since her fiancé cheated on her not just once, but many times. So when she meets a gorgeous, intense man at a wedding, the last thing she wants is to give him the chance to hurt her. But no matter, she’ll never see him again after this wedding, so she’s fine. Wrong…because when a dear friend meddles with only her happiness in mind, it will set her and Miles back on the path to happiness – IF and that’s a big IF, she can let go and allow him in and allow herself to be vulnerable.
Miles knows Liv is scarred emotionally, knows she’s as vanilla as they come, but he is still set on claiming her and claiming something his life is missing, even if he can only have her for the few days of this cruise someone manipulated them into being on at the same time. But he’ll do his Dom damndest to convince her of how good they can be, along with giving her more pleasure than she’s ever had in her life. The question is, will he be able to let her go when the cruise ends? Or will he uproot his life in Vegas to be with her in the City by the Bay?
This is a fabulous end to this fun series. Liv, though super frustrating, is likable and relatable, and Miles is beyond sexy and sweet. The perfect Dom in my mind – alpha with a big heart and a sweet side brought to his knees by his special someone. If this series has to end, I’d say this is the way to go out – with a sweet, sexy couple that has chemistry and heart for days.
Loving Liv by Stacey Kennedy is book 5 in the Gone Wild Series. This is the story of Miles Schantz and Liv Sloane. I did feel this was a standalone book. Liv has had her heart closed up for the last few years due to a broken engagement due to a cheating ex. The only time she left herself feel was a several months ago with a one night stand. So Liv thinks that this college friend cruise ship vacation is what she need to get going again. What she is surprised to see is her one night stand…Miles. Mile hasn’t been able to get Liv out of his mind, so when he receives the information that she is going to be on this trip he all aboard. But he soon learns she wasn’t the one to provide that information and she is shocked to see him. But now he has a few days to see where this attraction can lead. Really enjoyed this book.
This is the final book in the Gone Wild series about 5 college friends trying to reconnect but mistakenly book themselves on a singles cruise. This is Liv’s book and man oh man is it hot and I mean HOT. Liv is trying to heal a broken heart from her cheating ex and just so happens to run into a one night stand she had at a wedding.’ Miles is a sexy sex club owner who definitely knows how to dominate in the bedroom if you know what I mean. This book is definitely different than the others with some public sexcapades and such but similar in the insta love, HEA way. Such a fun series to read.
*** I did receive a free advanced readers copy of this book from Stacey Kennedy and Social Butterfly PR in exchange for a fair and honest review ***
This book had me sucked in from the very start. The connection and lust between Liv and Miles makes up the chemistry of soul mates.
I finished this book in 1 day and highly recommend it.
Loving Liv and Attracting Aubrey are the stars and must reads of this series of cruise books.
Highly entertaining, laugh out loud, fun and sexy romantic journey filled with interesting charters, witty dialog, heartwarming moments and undeniable passion. Was a really fun and exciting read from beginning to end. Really enjoyed this adventure!
This is my first Stacey Kennedy book, but it won’t be my last.
This is part of a multi-author series that all released on the same day, so I’ve been reading them all, and they are all very different based on the authors’ writing styles and genres, but they are all thoroughly enjoyable.
Liv is closed off to love after dealing with a cheating fiance, and she’s still drifting from day to day and struggling with her emotions. She has a wild night with an out of towner that introduces her to BDSM, and it scares her even more when she realizes that she likes it.
Miles is looking to find what’s missing in his life after all of his friends are settling down, and Liv wakes up something in him that he’s not familiar with. But she rebuffs his advances, and he shuts down, until she reaches out to him out of the blue to join her on a cruise (the other friends on the cruise make up the other books in the series)
Liv’s friends meddle to get the two of them to work out their feelings and give each other the chance that they need to be whole.
WOW! WOW! SHAMWOW ! What do I say about this book! I loved Stacey Kennedy’s Club Sin Series. It was a series that I read when I was in a slump and had kind of given up on reading. That series reignited a spark and a love of reading for me. Those stories were so passionate and well done. When I signed up to review the Gone Wild Series, I did not make the connection that Stacey Kennedy was writing one of the books. I went into it because of my love for Avery Flynn. Imagine my pure delight to not only get a story by Stacey but that it has characters from Club Sin make an appearance, one of my most favorite series.
Loving Liv is simple a wonderful, spicy and sexy read. I loved every sexy second of this story. Liv has experienced the gravest of all insults. She gave her heart to a man who then turned around and instead of caring for it he cheated on her. He had not 1 but 5 mistresses. Liv is afraid to trust her heart to anyone. She has simply been living day to day instead of for herself. She has built up so many walls around hear heart just so she can function.
A chance meeting with Miles at a friend of a friend’s wedding and a hot moment of connection has left the two them dancing around each other for the last 3 months. An anonymous email to Miles has sent him running for a chance with Liv. Miles has booked himself on the same singles cruise that Liv is on with her college friends. The fates seem to be on Miles’ side as Liv seems equally happy to see him.
Devoured this book and was emotionally invested to see what would happen with these two once the vacation bubble pops. While this was absolutely a vacation-based book with a new dominate/submissive relationship it was not dark in the traditional sense of those kind of books. It was fun, light with plenty of sexy. This was a 5/5 star read for me! And you get a HEA!
Stacey Kennedy may already be one of my auto-buy authors but if she wasn’t already, after reading Loving Liv, she’d be on my list. While enjoying the Gone Wild series, the final book in the series, Loving Liv, is my favorite. I loved Liv and Miles so much! Their chemistry is irresistible. SK’s series contribution was very fitting with the series title,Gone Wild. Loving Liv is a fun and sexy romance that will have you wanting to catch up on SK’s Club Sin series and Dirty Little Secrets series.
Loving Liv is so hot. Stacey Kennedy brings the heat with this one. Loving Liv is a hot second chance encounter romance. Liv was looking forward to quality time with her friends and is nursing a broken heart. I love her spirit in this. Liv comes alive with Miles. You will love Miles gentle dominance side. I love how he slowly finds out what Liv needs and wants. Miles and Liv are perfect for each other. You need to read this one because Stacey Kennedy does a fabulous job with the mix of a little sweet and a whole lot of heat. I couldn’t put it down.
I enjoyed this one so much. This is the first book I’ve read by this author so I have no backstory in terms of her Dom series but I fell in love with Miles. The story is funny, quirky, passionate, and lots sexy! I couldn’t put it down.
Liv has been hurt badly by a cheating ex-fiance and she has her heart on lockdown in the aftermath. She has just barely been able to climb out of a deep depression but she is basically drifting from one day to the next, existing but not truly living. One night with a sexy Dom visiting from out of town lights her up in ways she has never experienced before, and it scares her badly enough to shut him out completely when he shows interest in getting to know her better. After all, if she was hurt that badly by someone who didn’t evoke those feelings in her, what would this man do to her? Not to mention that she is an innocent when it comes to the BDSM world, so if she couldn’t hold her fiance’s interest, she believes she has no shot when it comes to Miles.
After watching his friends slowly pair off, get married and have children, he has been feeling that something is missing from his life. Liv ignites a spark in him that he has never experienced before, but chasing is not in his makeup so he backs off after being shut down time and time again. When he receives an email from her out of the blue inviting him to join her on a cruise, he doesn’t think twice about accepting.
Thank goodness for meddling friends because being put back into close proximity for 7 days is exactly what they need to work out their issues and feelings. Let the sexy times commence with a little bit of soul searching and revelations too. Miles knows this is his one shot to prove to Liv that they have something worth exploring even if he is holding back most of his Dominant side. They certainly find ways to have some adventurous fun along the way, and Liv realizes that she is becoming the woman she lost after meeting her ex. But overcoming that kind of hurt and fear is going to take a lot of work, and when she has the slightest opening, she is going to do what she does best: run. Ugh!
Despite my absolute frustration with her at times, Loving Liv is my favorite of this series so far! She and Miles had chemistry to spare, and while I am not familiar with the side characters from the author’s other books in related series, I am definitely interested in exploring them after getting a little taste in this book.
This is the fifth book in this series and the first book that I’ve read by this author and this book is a real, quick insta love romance and I really enjoyed reading it. This book is a awesome ending to this series and I really liked this author writing style to.
This is book five in this series. A Gone Wild Novel.
Book 1 = Kissing Kendall
Book #2= Gaming Grace
BOOK #3= Attracting Aubrey
BOOK #4= Beguiling Benjamin
BOOK #5= Loving Liv
Liv desperately needs a break away after her ex cheated on her and broke her heart, also there engagement and Liv needs to mend her heart that has never recovered.
After that Liv turned away from romance for along time apart from a one night stand that she can’t seem to forget.
Liv ends up on this cruise with her friends and she also realize that it’s a singles cruise and 2 her one night stand Miles is also on the cruise. Liv is worried about opening up her heart again because of the fear she’ll get hurt again.
Miles is the owner of a sexy club in Las Vegas and needs a break.
Miles has also spent time thinking about Liv and although he can have his pick of women he just wants her.
(NO SPOILERS).
I enjoyed reading this installment in this series of not a tad predictable with the story. I loved these characters and how hot they were, they have alot between them both not just chemistry but alittle history between each other. I was rooting for them to both find there happily ever after. This author has written these two characters awesome and I really enjoyed reading this book and seeing the outcome of there completely explosive connection.
Thank you to the author and publishers for allowing me to read an early copy of this book.
ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.
This book is expected to be released 24th March 2020.
Loving Liv by Stacey Kennedy is the fifth in the multi-author Gone Wild series. It is connected to Ms Kennedy’s Club Sin series and tells Miles Schantz’s story.
Miles Schantz and Liv Sloane meet by chance at a mutual friend’s wedding celebration. Their chemistry is immediate and powerful. Liv’s previous relationship did a number on her though, and she’s understandably reluctant to allow that connection to grow despite Miles’s willingness to pursue. When her friends plan a relaxing cruise for a vacation and Miles receives an anonymous suggestion that he be onboard, neither is able to continue to deny the strength of their attraction and agree to spend the week indulging.
While Miles is part owner of Club Sin and an acknowledged Dom, Loving Liv is BDSM-lite, and an enjoyable love-at-first sight read. Ms Kennedy does a great job of tying this into her series without being heavy handed and this stands alone well. Loving Liv is a very satisfying take-me-away read.