Title: Beauty From Love (Beauty Series #3)
Author: Georgia Cates
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: 340 pages
Released: January 30, 2014
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The epic romance between an all-American beauty and her Aussie continues in this final installment of The Beauty Series.
Jack McLachlan is fulfilled by more than he dared to dream possible. He finds everything he never knew he wanted—or needed—in Laurelyn Prescott, his last and final companion. Life is beautiful with his beloved by his side but their post-wedded bliss is cut short when his dark past springs into their present happiness. He wants to shelter Laurelyn but keeping her untainted by his previous life proves impossible when yesterday’s sins insist on returning to haunt him. Will it be possible for them to find happiness in their forever with a past like his?
Beauty From Love is an adult contemporary novel and is not intended for younger readers due to mature content.
Jack McLachlan is fulfilled by more than he dared to dream possible. He finds everything he never knew he wanted—or needed—in Laurelyn Prescott, his last and final companion. Life is beautiful with his beloved by his side but their post-wedded bliss is cut short when his dark past springs into their present happiness. He wants to shelter Laurelyn but keeping her untainted by his previous life proves impossible when yesterday’s sins insist on returning to haunt him. Will it be possible for them to find happiness in their forever with a past like his?
Beauty From Love is an adult contemporary novel and is not intended for younger readers due to mature content.
EXCERPT
This is an unprecedented moment. I’m awake before Jack
Henry, studying his sleeping figure—it’s a fine one—but that’s not what
makes this morning a new experience. I’m waking next to him as my
husband.
Wow. I did it. I married a man who propositioned me a
year ago, asking me to be his companion for three months. His idea of
our pairing deciphered into something much different back then—an offer
of noncommittal sex in exchange for the time of my life. Translation? I
agreed to be his whore. There, I admit it, and it was the best decision
I’ve ever made regardless of what kind of label we place upon it.
Now he’s my husband—forever mine—and I couldn’t be happier.
No number fourteen for him. Ever.
We began as strangers—as most couples do—but our beginning was so much more complicated.
That simple word makes me giggle each time I hear or say it now.
There’s never a time I don’t recall the freakish control my husband
displayed when he told me he was a man who didn’t do complicated.
Damn, was he ever wrong. I turned his world on its head. To know I hold
that power over him makes me feel invincible. And adored.
Some would consider our inception into this whirlwind a
perverted one. Even I did in the beginning, but then we became so much
more than either of us intended. Now we’re Mr. and Mrs. Jack Henry
McLachlan and this is the beginning of the rest of our lives. We’re
setting out into the world to write our own story—in stone, never sand.
I look at my husband’s face and see his eyes flutter
beneath his lids, a clear indication he’s dreaming, and I wonder what a
man like him sees when he’s in the deepest of sleep. Whatever it is, I
don’t want to disrupt it so I slide to the edge of the bed in slow
motion and place my feet on the floor of the plane’s bedroom suite. I
look over my shoulder to make sure I haven’t disturbed his slumber—and
he’s unmoving—so I ease from the bed with the agility of a thief in the
night.
When I’m finished in the bathroom, I return to bed and
repeat the same motion in reverse. I’m so pleased with myself because
I’ve managed to slip into bed next to Jack Henry without waking him. But
then I realize I’m basking in my accomplishment prematurely. He
suddenly rises, pinning me beneath him, a huge grin wide across his
face.
“Mornin’.” He lowers his mouth to mine and kisses me as
his grin grows larger, a sweet kiss just on the surface of my lips. “My
wife.” He places his forehead against mine. “You know … I think I like
the sound of that.”
“You better love the sound of it.”
“Hmm. Maybe it’ll grow on me with a little time.”
I push against Jack Henry’s chest and we roll so I’m on top. “And maybe you’ll grow on me.” I lower my mouth to his as close as possible without our lips touching. “If I try really, really hard.”
I am a wife, mother of two daughters and a labor and delivery nurse. I
have recently added Paranormal Romance Writer to my list of things to
keep be busy, but I am ecstatic to release my debut novel, Blood of
Anteros, the first book in The Vampire Agápe Series.
Like others that enjoy a great story of paranormal romance, I am easily bored by the tale of an obtainable, ordinary romance and was inspired to create The Vampire Agápe Series. When I am not tied up with my family or delivering babies, I am working feverishly on the second book in The Vampire Agápe Series.
Like others that enjoy a great story of paranormal romance, I am easily bored by the tale of an obtainable, ordinary romance and was inspired to create The Vampire Agápe Series. When I am not tied up with my family or delivering babies, I am working feverishly on the second book in The Vampire Agápe Series.
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