A brand new contemporary romance from New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Katy Evans.It started as a game.We flirted. We played. Most importantly—we won.Then I discovered who he was: Gambler. Famous playboy. Silver-eyed player who never plays to lose.…And my best friend’s soon-to-be brother in law, Cullen Carmichael.He needed a good luck charm, I needed a … Carmichael.
He needed a good luck charm, I needed a distraction.
So we made a gamble and set off for Vegas—but pretty soon—I was in too deep.
My heart, soul, and body weren’t supposed to be part of the deal.
But somewhere between big wins and long nights, my house of cards started to tumble.
What was this devil with those piercing eyes doing to me?
I’d given up on love, but the wicked, all-in Cullen Carmichael was upping the ante and wouldn’t stop until he’d won it all.
*This book contains characters of the Manwhore series but can be read as standalone.
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This book right here is why I LOVE Katy’s mad writing skills!!! I was so spellbound by Cullen and Wynn that I devoured page after page from beginning to end. Cullen aka Playboy was EVERYTHING…. sexy as sin, hot as hell and swoon-worthy beyond belief! Wynn is a beautiful woman who wants the dream…. marriage, a husband and kids but she feels that it’s just a DREAM! What happens when a bet becomes so much more? When the player might just be playing for KEEPS? Grab this read so you can be seduced by the PLAYBOY!
5 “You’re Mine” Stars!
Wynn Watson is a beautiful woman living in Chicago. She loves art, and has a gallery called the Fifth Street Gallery. She has fabulous friends, and was now the only one single in their group. She thought she’d be married with kids, but after her four year relationship ended she’s left questioning her choices when it comes to men. She’s a bit lonely and in need of a distraction when she encounters a hot gambler named Cullen Carmichael. He’s a professional poker player, and the current worldwide champion. He’s mysterious, and has a compelling, magnetic physical presence that people gravitate toward. He’s known as a ladies man, and goes by the name Playboy. He was easy on the eyes and intrigued her with his broody, multifaceted personality. He looks familiar, and she later figures out he’s her best friends soon to be brother in law.
Cullen gambles for a living and is very successful, but recently he’s been in a slump, and his luck turns around when Wynn is by his side one evening. Convinced she’s his lucky charm he invites her to travel with him to Las Vegas for some business. Wanting to get out of her rut, and out of town she accepts. She wants to have new experiences and some fun. They decide to spice things up a little be making a bet. They have a deal that each plans to win. As Cullen & Wynn spend the week together in Vegas, it’s an exciting time of big wins and long nights full of temptation. The attraction is mutual and becoming unbearable torture. Soon Wynn realizes she was kidding herself when she thought she could actually resist Cullen.
Wynn thought her heart was safe since Cullen’s not the type to fall in love, and she has no plans of falling again anytime soon, but it hits her out of nowhere. Suddenly it’s like nothing exists but this man, and their time together. He’s addictive, possessive and all consuming. She’s done thinking about the past, and is enjoying living in the moment. He shows her everything she’s been missing, and gives her the most intense passion she’s ever had. He’s sexy, complex, and a little dangerous. He makes her feel confident, free, and cherished when they’re together.
Things between them may have started out as a game, but they’ve turned very real. They weren’t looking for anything serious. Just no strings flirting and a good time. Now their so connected, and things could end in heartbreak. Cullen is done denying himself, and used to getting what he wants, and he wants Wynn. He craves her company, and deep feelings have developed. Could Cullen be “the one” for Wynn? Things between them are effortless but will she take a chance on him and be brave enough to love again? Could she finally be lucky in love?
This book was fantastic!!! From the start Cullen Carmichael is wickedly delicious, but then the more I read the more he stole my heart. Swoon, swoon and swoon some more. This man has so many beautiful layers to him that you uncover as you get into the story. We also get appearances from our other favorite couples Rachel & Saint, Gina & Tahoe, and Livvy & Callan. I really adore this whole series and loved everything about this book! I was left seriously crushing on Cullen! <333
4.25 stars—PLAYBOY is the fifth instalment in Katy Evans’ contemporary, adult MANWHORE erotic, romance series focusing on a tight knit group of friends. This is professional poker player Cullen Carmichael, and thirty-year old, gallery owner Wynn Watson’s story line. PLAYBOY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual first person points of view (Wynn and Cullen) PLAYBOY follows the building relationship between professional poker player Cullen Carmichael, and thirty-year old, gallery owner Wynn Watson. An illegal, underground poker game finds Wynn Watson the ultimate prize when her date loses everything to poker player Cullen Carmichael including our story line heroine. Currently in a slump on the professional circuit Cullen’s losing streak comes to an end with Wynn Watson at his side. Hoping to keep his run of good luck, Cullen makes Wynn an offer she cannot refuse as he embarks on the qualifying rounds for a showdown in Vegas. What ensues is the building relationship between Cullen and Wynn, and the potential fall-out as Wynn struggles between head and heart, and her inability to look past Cullen’s questionable profession.
Cullen has wanted Wynn for a very long time but Wynn was in a relationship, and Cullen has no plans to become the ‘other man’. With the nickname ‘Playboy’ on the professional circuit, Cullen’s reputation with the ladies precedes his introduction to our story line heroine, a heroine who is well aware of the man at her side. Discovering Wynn to be his ‘good luck charm’ Cullen is desperate to keep our heroine by his side.
The relationship between Cullen and Wynn is based upon multiple bets, and an on-going game of winner takes all. Every action is measured by win, lose or draw but the ultimate loss comes in the form of a potential broken heart when the relationship becomes something more. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
There is a large ensemble cast of colorful secondary and supporting players who figure prominently in Cullen and Wynn’s life including all of the previous story line couples, as well as Cullen’s brother Callan and Wynn’s best friend Olivia (Womanizer #4). We are introduced to a number of players on the professional poker tour, one of whom is about to change the direction of Cullen’s life.
PLAYBOY is a fun and flirty story with sassy and sexy characters that reads a little bit like ‘Indecent Proposal’. Cullen offers Wynn everything she could every have imagined, an exchange that could have felt business-like but came with good intentions, from the heart. The character driven premise is realistic and spirited; the romance is tender, erotic and intense; the characters are charismatic and feisty. PLAYBOY is a sizzling and suggestive story from the pen of Katy Evans.
The manwhore series continues.
I loved this book! I really enjoyed the dual POV and really understanding Cullen. Wynn is hilarious in her own head, and it often made me laugh out loud at a few of her remarks. Katy Evans did a good job painting the Vegas scene with the gambling and such. I honestly felt as if I was right there the whole time.
Of course, as with all good books, I wanted more 🙂 I loved the ending! I don’t want to post spoilers… but if you have read any of the other Manwhore books, don’t hesitate… but this one now!
Fabulous. This story surprised me several times as I got to experience Wynn and Cullen, an unlikely pair. Wynn has given up on ever finding the one. She has been in several relationships and the last one, well, sort of shattered her when Emmett just let her go. Now, there is more to the story which is gut wrenching for Wynn. When she ends up at an underground poker game and is ‘sold’ as part of the bet to Playboy, well, she feels she’s hit the all-time low. Of course, she didn’t recognize Playboy as her best friend’s brother-in-law, Cullen. Cullen is a professional gambler and everyone sees him as a ‘player’ in all areas of his life. His fascination with Wynn, his new luck, is all consuming but Wynn needs a distraction so when they make a bet, she goes with him to Vegas. There are so many layers to this romance that starts out as a fling based on a crazy bet. I loved that they both really want love in their lives but have struggled to find it. There is a beautiful freedom and joy when they are together that was fun to experience. But the ultimate is when Cullen gives Wynn what she truly desires and doesn’t believe she will ever have, that was pure magic. I voluntarily read an ARC of this book and this is my honest review.
What happens when Cullen Carmichael & Wynn Watson get together, you get one explosive chemistry filled story.
From the moment Cullen finds out Wynn is “available “ all bets are off and as a gambler things will get interesting.
Wynn Watson is the last among her married friends to be single and with a recent breakup men are the furthest thing from her mind but when Cullen shows interest things take a sudden change.
You will see this amazing couple go through some ups and downs but when they get over some bumps in the road you can’t help fall for this couple and enjoy the journey with them.
Finallyyyy got my hands on this… and it’s the reason I’m up at 1:30 still when I should be in bed!!! Just when I think, “Katy, it can’t get any better than this one!”… I read another of your books! This one made me laugh and cry at the same time. I’m so grateful to my Mom for introducing me to your work years ago. Now I don’t want to read anything else!
No! I never wanted this book to end!! I loved it so much and so happy Wynn got her HEA! This entire series was phenomenal! Loved every second of it! Katy Evans is a really great writer and I can’t wait to read more of her books!
PLAYBOY is the best of the series! If this is the end all I have to say is “What a way to go out.” Cullen is a very successful Poker player and knows he’ll go all in the minute he lays eyes on Wynn. I laughed my butt off at the way they would flirt and tease each other. I normally like stories that are full of angst but the lack of it in Wynn and Cullen’s story worked. There were parts of their lives that tugged on my heart strings and found myself smiling throughout the extended epilogue. It was a beautiful ending for this couple.
The last 40 pages wish there was more….. More about afterwards also.
Cullen Carmichael intrigued me from the first moment I was introduced to him. He opened his mouth and I was hooked. I absolutely loved this book, but then again Katy Evans never lets me down. Wynn and Cullen are so good together. They bring out something in one another than nobody before has. Their chemistry is undeniable!
Katy Evans has always been one of my favorite authors since I first found her through “Real.” I’ve kept up with her various series – and loved getting to fall in love over and over again with not just her stories – but her style of story-telling. Her writing is always amazing, well organized, and draws you in so quickly that you’re done with the book before you know it.
In Playboy, we get Wynn and Cullen’s story from the Manwhore series. Wynn has always been one of those side characters in the other books that made you smile, let you know she was a good person. And getting inside her mind this time, it was so much fun. A lovable, sweet, smart, independent woman whose been hurt. That’s our Wynn. Someone who has suffered and has more or less given up on the thought of love. At least for now.
Enter Cullen – brother to her best friend’s husband. Playboy in every sense of the word. And one that is determined to win what he wants at all costs. And now that Wynn is free – She’s the greatest prize he’d love to take home.
Their story was magnetizing. I loved every word. And really, I LOVED Cullen. He wasn’t at all what I expected, and I really loved to read his chapters, and know what he was thinking. And Wynn – Oh the feels this girl brought to my heart.
I loved Playboy. I can’t recommend it enough. It was different, and unexpected, really.
You can’t go wrong with ANY Katy Evan’s book. If I could give it more than 5 stars, I would.
GREAT story, GREAT writing..GREAT characters. Now go one-click this baby!
The Heroin, Wynn just became single again. Her dream has always been to get married and have a family. She’s not over her Ex when she meets Cullen “Playboy” Carmichael. The best poker player in town. He makes big money playing cards. Cullen knows the second he meets Wynn, she’s the one for him.
I read every book Katy Evans writes and Playboy (like all the other ones) did not disappoint.
I loved the slow romance between Cullan and Wynn, that build up to a great HEA final. Very Sexy and very captivating Story. Playboy is a well written romance. I enjoyed the deep characters. The Setting and Plot. Everything.
Playboy contains characters from the Manwhore series but can be read as a complete standalone.
I would recommend Playboy to everybody who loves sexy romance novels.
Well, I never thought anyone would dethrone Remy as my favorite Katy Evans H. But Cullen might have taken the title. I LOVE THIS MAN!!! Truly, deeply, madly. I know I sound like a teenager but that’s how much I loved this book and the characters. And that was unexpected. I always like her books but this one — Wynn and Cullen are a perfect match and I’m completely jealous of her LOL. Cullen is called Playboy, but once he sees Wynn, he’s mesmerized by her. He wastes no time romancing her, and boy is he hot!! Wonderful story and one of my favorites of this series.
Since I finished reading Womanizer, I knew I needed the story of Wynn and Callan’s brother, and it was worth the wait because it was everything I expected and more. This is a story so intense, sexy that it took my breath away and eating my nails during most of the plot. And I sighed so many times, I completely fell in love with the plot.
Wynn is disappointed in love, coming out of a relationship of several years that did not turn out as she expected. Unsure of her failure in love, I sincerely wanted to shake her more than once to eliminate all the self doubts she has. She meets Cullen in an illegal poker game and the sparks between them jump. Cullen is totally taken with her.
Cullen, OMG, I loved him, made me drool, I fell completely in love with him, he’s a character, complex, dark, sexy and the perfect Alpha male that will make you fall at his feet, his looks, his dialogues, I just can not deal with him, If I thought Callan was sexy, wait to meet Cullen, he will melt your heart and other things (lol).
After a bet they make travel to Las Vegas together and as time goes on their attraction and chemistry grows slowly until it is almost impossible to bear, their scenes together so loaded with passion and attraction are perfect, there were several scenes that, ufff they almost ignite my Tablet on fire.
In spite of the attraction, both have several doubts that hinder openness to the other completely. Especially Wynn is very afraid of jumping into a new relationship after the previous one left her so broken.
I loved having a look at the characters in the previous books and their life together.
If you are a fan of Katy Evans and you want a story full of passion, sensuality and intense it is perfect for you. You will not want to miss it.
No surprise here….I grabbed this book as soon as it released and was so excited to dive into Katy’s latest creation. Her stories captivate me with her characters and Wynn and Cullen were no different . Cullen was the sexy, dangerous, mystery that had Wynn all twisted up knots. I could see why….Cullen’s sexy swagger, glint in his eye and his smirk was enough to make anyone swoon.
I loved their sexy banter, their inability to resist the opportunity to get under each other’s skin and the lengths that Cullen would go to show Wynn how much he adored her. Their underlying “bet” being what simmers under the surface but their affections grow under the Vegas lights.
Cullen stole my heart as we uncovered a few more layers to his “playboy” persona. His thoughtfulness and attention to detail made it easy to see why Wynn was falling head of heels for Cullen even though she had sworn off men. Her ex really have left her feeling unwanted and damaged. I can tell you that I was routing for them to find their way and make each other whole.
Catching up with the other characters from the Manwhore Series is always a pleasure and they gave insight and added a little fun to the story line as well. Katy wraps the story leaving you with a smile on your face and your heart full. Haven’t started this series yet….what are you waiting for? Each book in this series will give you a couple to route for and fall in love with.
Katy Evans can’t do wrong!! I freaking love the cover, the story, the epilogue… in a nutshell I am now upset because it’s over. She is showing again that she is bloody brilliant.
“People don’t really know how addictive love is until they fall. Once you’re in, you crave the feeling like a drug and you feel lost without it.”
I was really looking forward to read Cullen and Wynn’s story… He is a manwhore and a gambler. He is a FIRST CLASS PLAYBOY and I love him so much for all of the above LOL
Wynn is newly single and bump into sexy Cullen Carmichael at a poker game. He knows who she is straightaway and she soon becomes his lucky charm. Wynn’s whole life is falling apart and she accepts Cullen’s offer to go with him to Vegas … # indecentProposalStyle
“I can think about is Cullen. Breathe Cullen Carmichael. Live Cullen Carmichael.”
I am not going to go into details but I can tell you that Wynn and Silver Eyes’s story was magical, romantic, and addictive and so much more. The sex scenes were hot obviously but what I liked the most is the kiss. Their first, second, third – all- their kisses made my heart beat loudly and made me melt on the spot. I was in awe!
Trust me The Playboy is THE REAL DEAL!!
4 stars to Cullen, the playboy searching for his best bet, and Wynn, the girl who is up to the game.
Wynn is a woman who recently has ended a 4 years relationship, hardly believes in love now because of her bad streak in it and just be up to a good time to get rid of the bad taste her last boyfriend left in her mouth.
Ok, that sounds not very appealing. But the thing is that all her friends are already married and having the life their never dreaming of but Wynn always wanted to. However, she has given it up because there is something she will never could have.
That is when Playboy show up, a mysterious, brutal poker player who mesmerizes her from the first moment they met. But this player has an as under his sleeve, always plays to win and is certain that this bet is a sure winning.
What do I think about the book? Well, I liked the story. I liked to be able to see bits of the rest of the gang, especially of Tahoe and Gina.
But the story is about Wynn and Cullen, so. The truth is that the very beginning they have an explosive chemistry that overflows the pages and penetrates your system. But (always a but) I felt sometimes was too much, and I wanted to things getting together, that they made their mind up together, or not together, because they were always betting. However, when the time was up, the regard was priceless. Both of them play all in, rising the stakes at every step, taking no prisoners.
The end was bittersweet to me.
Although both had their HEA, ‘cause Katy always fulfill that, there was this little detail I though it sorted out miraculously. In perspective, I feel like that was the way it has to be, giving a more real touch to the story. A touch that makes me love it even more.
Just don´t ever quit me.
Me? I would never fold when I’ve got a winning hand.
Bets anyone ?
I love me a betting man and a man who’s willing to bet for a lady is just right up my ally!
I love everything about this story! You’ll have to read for yourself to find out all the details!
One of my favorite books loved these characters hard!!