Title: Fixed on You
Author: Laurelin Paige
Release date: June 2013
Age Group: Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Stalking and restraining orders are a thing of Alayna Pierce’s past. With her MBA newly in hand, she has her future figured out – move up at the nightclub she works at and marry the manager, David. He’s perfect for her because, although he’s attractive, he doesn’t get her all turned inside out and upside down like some other men have. It’s a safe plan, one that assures she’ll remain in control of her obsessive love disorder.
But what Alayna didn’t figure on is Hudson Pierce, the new owner of the nightclub. He’s smart, rich, and gorgeous – the kind of guy Alayna knows to stay away from if she wants to keep her past tendencies in check. Except, Hudson’s fixed his sights on her. He wants her in his bed and makes no secret of his plans to seduce her. Avoiding him becomes impossible after he offers a business proposition Alayna can’t turn down and she’s drawn further into his universe, unable to resist his gravitational pull.
Soon Alayna’s charmed by Hudson in every way possible and the control over her old behaviors slip. When she learns Hudson has a dark history of his own, she realizes too late that she’s fallen for the worst man she could possibly get involved with. Or maybe their less than ideal pasts give them an opportunity to heal each other and finally find the love their lives have been missing.
Fixed on You by Laurelin Paige
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
*ARC Given to Blog for Honest Review*
5 “precious” Kisses!
My heart is full. Very full. Of love. Of promise. Of possibilities. That is what this book has brought me. Oh…and because I’m a dirty book whore, my heart is full of lust. Because jeez louise as much as this book angst’d the crap out of my heart, it equally filled it up with desire and longing…and horniness. Just sayin’… I really had no idea where this book was going to take me, but wow am I more than pleasantly surprised. I couldn’t put this book down, read it in less than a day. Devoured it because that’s what it did to me. It devoured me…mind, body and soul, and I couldn’t get enough! I’m begging for more! Give me more Hudson!!! *deep calming breaths*
Alayna ‘Laynie’ Withers…she’s a 26 year old bombshell with long brown hair and actual brains to go along with all those good looks. She’s graduating with her MBA from Stern…yet she’s a bit of a contradiction because while some would be looking for a job in the field where you get your degree from, Laynie is quite alright staying right where she is…working as a bartender at The Sky Launch Nightclub. But that’s a different issue….of course she’s a catch, she has to be to garner the eye of a certain über rich mogul, but beneath the gorgeous exterior lies a mentally troubled girl. The death of her parents when she was younger left her in a fragile state. Something that wasn’t handled as quickly as it should have been. She was raised by her older brother, leaving their relationship in less than stellar shape because who wants to have to deal with a teenage girl with ‘issues’. But the past is in the past, Laynie is making progress…until he sits down at her bar.
‘“I so got this.” I so didn’t have it. Not with Mr. Draw-Laynie-To-Me-Whatever-The-Cost-To-Her-Sanity sitting at the end of the bar.’
Hudson Pierce – Mr. All Business, Mr. No Emotions, Mr. Holy-shit-you’re-so-freaking-hot-just-screw-me. Hmm…may have gotten carried away with that one. He’s 29 with floppy brown hair and intense grey eyes that just scream ‘fuck me’…or maybe I just screamed that while I was reading about him. There is just something about a dark, brooding, self-contained businessman that just does it for me in all kinds of delicious ways, and Hudson Pierce did that. Very well. It wasn’t just all those good looks and sex appeal that did it for me, there is more to Hudson, I promise. He’s successful and intelligent and says the most drool worthy things, but when you combine all that in such a steamy package…well, that’s just kryptonite for me. 🙂 So…there’s a…’deal’ if you will, I don’t wanna spoil the deal because that was the jaw drop moment for me and I’d hate to steal that from someone. I didn’t see it coming…and I loved it.
‘He lowered his head to my ear. “Wait, Alayna.” His breath tickled and burned simultaneously. I closed my eyes, taking it in, bearing it. “I apologize for overwhelming you. That wasn’t my intent. But I want you to know that whether or not you decide to help with my situation, I will continue to seduce you. I’m a man who gets what he wants. And I want you.”
Um, holy wow.
Turned on did not begin to describe how his statement made me feel.’
So welcome to the world of ‘girl with obsessive issues’ meets ‘boy with love and commitment issues’…two people with ‘less than ideal pasts’ that you really shouldn’t want to be together, but damn it, they’re just so flippin’ perfect for each other. He and Laynie have a lot in common in the mental issues department. She loves too much, to the point of obsession and he doesn’t love at all. It’s sex with Hudson…take it or leave – and GOD Bless America, does Laynie ever take it. But seriously, it’s better to have Hudson than to not have him at all. You couldn’t put a better couple together than Alayna (because he doesn’t call her Laynie) and H (her nick name for him….and yes I think it’s the cutest thing on the planet). I can’t lie…the physical aspect of their relationship hooked me first. Hello…this would be a red alert on the ‘panty melting’ – like sweet Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus did this book set me on fire.
He let out a brief laugh, as if he recognized his own vulnerability and it amused him or confounded him. “I’m drawn to you, Alayna. Not because I want to hurt you or make you feel a certain way, but because you’re beautiful and sexy and smart and, yes, a little crazy, maybe, but you’re not broken. And that makes me hopeful. For me.”
I have no shame, clearly, with what I am about to say…this book had me panting. I could feel their chemistry. It was electric. Their connection, their desire, all of it was just so…freaking….HOT! I couldn’t get enough. They might be able to deny soooo many things, their feelings, the reality of the situation, anything else – but the one thing they cannot deny is their physical attraction to each other and the fact that they are sexually very compatible. This book is in it’s own category in my brain because the sex scenes were worthy of an erotica book, but the plot, writing, characters, everything else was 100% contemporary romance…it was an amazingly well meshed blend. And there is so much more to this book than all the hotness…there’s Hudson’s evil mother (I’m not exaggerating…she is evil), the possibly evil ‘friend’ Celia…there’s drama with Laynie’s brother…so, it’s not all smooth sailing and hot sex…but I tell you that’s why it hooked me! If I wasn’t all tied up in knots over angst, I was gasping for breath over the sexual chemistry between these two. Win/Win if you ask me!
‘He labeled it as a kiss for our distant spectators, but it was completely ours—a harmonic blending of him and me, so thoroughly fused I could no longer remember where he began, where I ended, whose taste belonged to who. And it was more—a love song without words, a promise without fear. It was a spark, a beginning of something new.’
Holy crap do I need their sequel. God Bless Miss. Paige for not cliffing me, which I thought she might do there for a hot second, but she didn’t…so they’re happy, I’m happy…but we could all be happier. I need my ‘finality’ with them, they’ve worked very hard to get where they are and now they need a conclusion. A beautiful one, that I may have already dreamed up in my imagination – but I have a feeling the actual version will be a million times better. I have yet to be anything less than thrilled to bits with what I have read…I doubt Found In You will be anything short of amazing.
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Laurelin Paige is a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however. When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s
probably singing, watching Mad Men and the Walking Dead, or dreaming of Adam Levine. She is represented by Bob Diforio of D4EO Literary Agency.
