100 Shades of Sin… In The Billionaires, Calista Fox delivers a sexy and sensuous friends-to-lovers tale with a delicious love triangle twist. Jewel Catalano, Rogen Angelini, and Vin D’Angelo had been childhood best friends, spending every possible moment with one another. Rogen became her first love, the first one to show her what pleasure could be. Until a volatile feud erupted between their … be. Until a volatile feud erupted between their powerful California wine country families and she and Rogen were torn apart from each other. What she didn’t expect was to find comfort and passion like she had never known in Vin’s arms and bed. But when that too ended in disaster, Jewel moved to San Francisco to work for the Catalano empire. Years later, a series of daring acquisitions brings Jewel back to River Cross, the hometown where Rogen and Vin have recently returned as well. Jewel has the curves, the smarts, and the success to bring any man to his knees–especially the two men who remained best friends and still burn to possess her.
Mixing family business with erotic pleasure ignites a smoldering love triangle. But in order to pull off the bold deal that will build the trios’ own legacy and to stay in their heady, sensual paradise, they must discover what true love really is–or lose everything their hearts’ desire, in The Billionaires by Calista Fox.
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The Billionaires is a steamy second chance ménage. Jewel Catalano, Rogen Angelini and Vin D’Angelo are three childhood best friends who have been torn apart by the family feud between Jewel’s and Rogen’s powerful California families. Rogen and Jewel were each other’s first loves. But, when his parents forced him off to boarding school because of their feud with Jewel’s family, Vin, Rogen’s best friend and Jewel’s too, became much more than Jewel’s friend. But, this relationship, too, ended and left Jewel devastated enough for her to leave for San Francisco and not come back very often to River Cross where their families reside and work.
Now, 10 years later, Jewel has come back to River Cross with an idea in her head and a proposition for Gian Angelini: he and his wife and son sign over to her their rights to a piece of land owned jointly by the Angelini and Catalano families, and in turn, Jewel will give him a rare bottle of Scotch distilled by his ancestors ages ago, a bottle he’s never been able to get his hands on and desperately wants. As she’s leaving, she runs into Rogen and the feelings and passion they had for each other when they were teens are still there and they end up in a steamy encounter. But, when she runs into Vin a short time later, her anger at him for having ghosted her 10 years ago on their prom night overwhelms her and ends with her slapping him (hard!!) across the face. Yep, poor Jewel, it seems her passion for both men still runs deeply within her and she can’t help but want both men. When she has naughty, dirty sex with him in a public bathroom during a lunch the three of them are having, she knows something has to be done about the feelings she has for both men. But, it won’t be easy, because their families have a huge secret that fuels the feud between them, and Jewel, Vin and Rogen must navigate their feelings when they aren’t even sure what those feelings are precisely.
The three of them together are the perfect complement to the others. Of the three, I got Jewel the most. I love her, she’s tough, feisty and compassionate. Rogen is the sweet, sensual lover who holds half of her heart with his slow burn lovemaking and shared memories. Vin is the broody, aggressive man who holds the other half of her heart with his edgy, demanding roughness. He was harder for me to connect to until it came to light why he had left Jewel heartbroken, and then I understood all his anger and hurt. As they embark upon their steamy, erotic relationship, I was on the edge of my seat just waiting for it all to implode. I certainly wasn’t expecting what the big secret turned out to be, and it was a big one. But, it was pretty heart rending, and just brought the three lovers together even more and gave them something more to bond over.
I can’t wait for more of this steamy, exciting world that Calista has written, bravo, Ms. Fox!
I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway.
This is book One in the “Lover’s Triangle” series. This is the story of Jewel Catalano, Rogen Angelini, and Vin D’Angelo who started off as friends when they were younger. Rogen was Jewel’s first love but a family feud had broken that up. Now years later…Jewel is looking to talk to Rogen’s brother Gian Angelini about a deal for a piece of land for an exchange for a rare Angelini scotch. Jewels had surprised emotions when seeing Rogen again. When she ups and leaves the party she was at after seeing Rogen she runs into Vin. Vin was unaware of Rogen and Jewels sexual relationship and thought that it had just be a friendly relationship.
it is my second book by Calista Fox as i read The Billionaires: The Bosses, first and i’m already planning to read The Billionaires: The Stepbrothers..
I love menage stories or better say polyamorous stories .. specially if there is love not just sex ..
The story was good, it was different and there was not so much drama << that. i love. as i tend to have a hard time, with books that have so many angst and turns that will just gave you a whiplash.. it was also believable because you get to grow with the characters and see how they don't really know how to feel about the whole thing but still didn't want to stop fighting for what they wanted.. They don't understand how they can love each other or how Jewel can love two men.. we see how the journey between them takes place and how each one, has the time to think and see if they will be able to be in a relationship that is "not the typical one" we get to read their journey, their growth, their insecurities and even tastes .. I love Jewel, she is a strong heroine, she was very assertive and strong, she owned her love and sex life fiercely no matter if it was going against her family or the whole gossiping town of River Cross .. The story of two families who share some part of their land.. great friends and business partners until something happened that makes this two family draw apart... Tired of all the drama Jewel returns to River Cross to make all that change and try to persuade Mr. Angelini to sale a portion of his land, to make a thriving business she has in mind.. but in her return old flames grow back. Rogen and Vin two handsome guys who are brothers not by blood but by life circumstances, who happened to love the same woman, Jewel and are trying to figure how to be with her without one of the three, getting hurt.. Things get complicated when Mr. Angelini is not entirely convince on Jewels motives and ideas to get that land.. she offers him to give something very precious in return as a token, for letting her have what she needed but still, he has another agenda that can complicate her plans and also her love for her two men.. not to mentioned the Angelinis and the Catalanos have a secret that separated Jewel, Rogen and Vin.. so in love with Jewels fashion and style, the way she was always impecable, the way her men want her and desire her, it was amazing and lets just say Rogen and Vin, wow these two where hot .. but i have to admit Vin is my man!! he is super dirty, strong, aggressive (in a good way) he owns his sexuality in a way that makes you melt ..
If you want a book with a lot of sex scenes then you will enjoy this book. Scarlet is an insurance fraud investigator on a cold case regarding the 20 million dollar art theft from the Vandenburg estate. After 2 months of trying to interview Michael she discovers upon their meeting, that they share an amazing chemistry. That’s a problem since Scarlett needs to keep her focus on this investigation and not on Michael. Michael answers questions that he never thought he would discuss with anyone because he can’t stay away from Scarlet. Sam, Michael’s stepbrother, is a rancher in Wyoming, far from New York.. When he ends up rescuing Scarlett from her crashed SUV, they end up snowed in for a while and, Sam is also fascinated by Scarlett. He also finds himself answering questions he never thought he would answer. This is a complex case, as is the relationship between Scarlett, Michael and Sam.
I really liked that Ms. Fox established the relationships between Scarlett, Sam, and Michael individually before they come together. This story is a suspenseful, sexy romance with quite a few twists and turns around the mystery that Scarlett is trying to solve. Plus there are definitely lots of hot sexy times as well as intimate moments that help the reader fall for and understand these characters. I recommend this book to other readers and am looking forward to the next book in this series.
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.