*~*Friends Wanting Benefits by Luke Young Release Day Promo, Excerpt & Giveaway*~*

Title:   Friends Wanting Benefits (Friends With Benefits Series Prequel #0.5)

Author:   Luke Young

Genre:   Contemporary Romance, Humor

Release Date:   March 24, 2014

 

Victoria Wilde and Jillian Grayson meet while aboard a romantic Caribbean cruise with the men in their lives. The two become fast friends despite being in completely different relationships–Victoria, a young widow, is finally moving on with a new and exciting romance. Jillian, on the other hand, is struggling in a long marriage that’s barely hanging on by a thread.

But when Victoria offers Jillian advice on how to get the spark back between the sheets… things don’t exactly go as planned. With a misunderstanding of international significance, all hell breaks loose in paradise. Can Victoria repair the damage that has been done? Will she truly help Jillian save her marriage?

Find out in Friends Wanting Benefits. A prequel series to the Friends With Benefits series.

 

Have you read the other books in the Friends With Benefits Series?

 

Title:   Friends With Partial Benefits (Friends With Benefits Series Book #1)

Author:   Luke Young

Genre:   Contemporary Romance, Humor

Jillian Grayson is a disillusioned divorcée and best-selling romance novelist who suddenly can’t write a chapter without her hunky male heartthrob suffering ED, an STD, or even worse. Brian Nash is a tennis-obsessed college senior who’s unlucky in love and the roommate and best friend of Jillian’s son, Rob. When Rob brings Brian home for Spring Break, and Brian meets the surprisingly young and tennis passionate Jillian, their shared interest quickly develops into an intense mutual attraction. After nearly giving in to their feelings, they hatch a plan, while under the influence (of something more than just the perfect Miami night), to be Friends With Partial Benefits, complete with rules to define the boundaries. Will the lonely pair continue with this distinctive relationship, actually explore their desires, or discover all of it is a really bad idea?

**This book contains explicit language, sexual content, slightly inappropriate humor and is recommended for mature audiences who like that sorta thing!

 

Title:   Friends With Full Benefits (Friends With Benefits Series Book #2)

Author:   Luke Young

Genre:   Contemporary Romance, Humor

For best-selling romance novelist Jillian Grayson, writer’s block is a thing of the past now that her clandestine relationship with her son’s best friend, Brian Nash, has lifted her out of a post-divorce funk. The prospect of breaking the news to her son seems daunting, but it’s nothing compared to the nightmare of meeting Brian’s superstrict, off-the-wall, disapproving parents.

After Jillian, Brian and his younger brother Jim, learn an eye-opening secret about the Nash parents they all go scurrying back to Miami where Jillian’s best friend Victoria finds Brian’s sexy, but innocent college senior brother to be just what the doctor ordered. But when Jim comes on a little too seriously, will Victoria lose interest and return to her life of casual fun or will things get even more complicated?

Friends With Full Benefits is the second book in the Friends With…series. And although the stories are connected, they can be read on their own and book two is a great introduction to the hilarious and complicated world of Jillian and Victoria.

It’s an edgy and somewhat raunchy romp filled with humor, sex, romance, passion and surprises. Full Benefits will leave you laughing out loud, slightly worked up and maybe even chasing your spouse or partner around the bedroom…

Title:   Friends With More Benefits (Friends With Benefits Series Book #3)

Author:   Luke Young

Genre:   Contemporary Romance, Humor

Victoria, Jim, Brian, Jillian, Rob, Laura and Caroline are back with more eye-opening revelations, steamy triangles and sexy surprises in the third book in the Friends With… series.

As Jillian and Brian’s destination wedding date nears, Jillian’s just released novel’s complicated success threatens to destroy their big day. While Rob’s new job grows extraordinarily more mysterious Brian’s becomes infinitely more unfulfilling and both struggle to find the answers. Victoria finds it more and more difficult to hide her secrets and when they are finally exposed there is no shortage of collateral damage. When thoughts are revealed will the wedding be ruined, will Jillian’s career survive and will everyone forgive Victoria?

Title:   Friends With Extra Benefits (Friends With Benefits Series Book #4)

Author:   Luke Young

Genre:   Contemporary Romance, Humor

The long-awaited next chapter in the Friends With… Benefits series, Extra Benefits, is part romantic suspense, part legal thriller, part medical drama, part steamy erotic romp, and part screwball comedy.

Victoria, Jillian, Brian, Jim, Caroline, and Rob are back in book four, the 400-page epic next chapter in the series. Who will prevail in the Brookhart v. Grayson trial? Will Victoria have a boy or a girl, and will she finally find happiness? Will Rob figure out what the hell is going on with his mysterious and unstable boss, and will Brian find a career? Will you be able to get through the steamy chapters without tossing your e-reader to the floor and chasing your partner around the room?

The answers to these and many, many other questions are found inside Extra Benefits.

Title:   Friends With Way Too Many Benefits (Friends With Benefits Series Book #5)

Author:   Luke Young

Genre:   Contemporary Romance, Humor

As Jim and Victoria learn to live together and raise their new baby, Jillian and Brian embark on a challenging and hilarious struggle to conceive one of their own. Getting pregnant seems like a piece of cake compared to what’s involved in bringing Jillian’s novel to the big screen as an unwelcome guest and an ill-advised celebrity free pass complicate matters immensely.

Featuring expanded Ian Dalton scenes, this book is also the continuation of the steamier Victoria Wilde version of the series. The optional “Ian” scenes are easily skipable by readers who prefer the Luke Young variety.

Containing summaries of all four earlier books, Friends With Way Too Many Benefits is also a great place to join the series. Come to know this wild, fun and amazing group of characters who share far too much with one another and where no dare, practical joke or topic of conversation is off-limits. So whether you are new to it or been following this group of friends around since the beginning, you are sure to have “Way Too Much” fun with Way Too Many Benefits.

Victoria Wilde sat in her car less than two miles away, outside a large home in an upscale Miami suburb, staring at her cell phone with her thoughts swirling. Should she drive away, go alone and just call him to say she made a mistake? Was this really the right move for her after everything that happened? The moment she saw Ethan step out the front door to the brightly lit portico, her doubts disappeared. It wasn’t just his striking good looks, or his steely blue eyes, or his trim muscular physique. It was the confidence with which the young man carried himself. Yeah, it was that, along with the unbelievable night the two had spent together in that hotel room just a few days earlier.  She shook her head and sighed. If he hadn’t showed up that day in Tampa and rescued her, she didn’t want to think about what might have been. Yes, this was the best thing to happen to her in over a year. And no, she wasn’t going to over analyze it—she was just going to do.

 He wore a huge smile as he headed to the car carrying a small suitcase. Slipping into the passenger seat, he closed the door then gave her a deep kiss.

She pulled away first, grinning. “You’re full of energy this morning.”

“Well, I missed you.”

“I missed you too.” She gave him a skeptical look. “Your parents really don’t have a problem with you going with an old… I mean… Older woman?”

“No,” he replied softly.

“Wait…” She scoffed. “You didn’t tell them did you?”

“Well, um, no. I said I was going on a cruise with this girl I was dating from school—that it was a last minute thing.”

“Uh-huh.”

“We did actually meet at school, so that’s mostly the truth.”

“Okay…”

“I also said it was this girl’s graduation present. I think they felt a little guilty since their gift was sorta lame in comparison.”

“What’d they give you?”

“A wallet.”

“A wallet?”

“Yeah, but it had five hundred in cash…” he frowned, “…plus they just paid for my one hundred twenty thousand dollar college education.”

“College is that much now?” Victoria scoffed. “I think you should be happy with the wallet.”

“Yeah, probably.”

“You don’t think they’d approve of me?”

“Maybe. I don’t know.” Looking her over, he flashed her a grin. “My dad certainly would.”

“Maybe I should’ve met them or—”

“I’m twenty-one for God’s sake. I can make my own decisions.”

“Okay.” She nodded. “I’m just glad you could go. I really need to get away from here for a while.”

“I can’t think of a place I wouldn’t go with you.” They shared a smile until he gave her a hesitant look. “So you didn’t finish telling me about Rebecca. Is she still… breathing?”

She put on a deadly serious tone and said, “If shallow breaths count then yes, when I left her she was still breathing.”

“Seriously?”

“I’m joking.” She held back a laugh. “If I learned one thing from watching all those Dateline Mysteries, it’s that you don’t kill when you have a motive.”

He nodded in agreement. “I’m so sorry that I had to be the one to tell you she was sleeping with your husband.”

“Look, it was a long time ago, and he’s not here for me to yell at or… I don’t know.” She exhaled deeply. “Let’s not talk about all that. I just want to have fun for a change. I’ve been depressed for longer than… it’s been over a year since…” She shook her head. “Let’s just change the subject.”

“Okay.”

They shared a tender smile before she asked, “Hey, have you ever been SCUBA diving?”

“A couple times.”

“That’s what I wanted to hear.” She shot him a sexy grin as she put the car in drive.

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Luke Young is the Kindle-bestselling author of the Friends With…Benefits series as well as the novel Chances Aren’t.

Young’s Friends With…Benefits novels are filled with passion, longing, comedy, and, yes, sex. His relationship comedies feature strong, sexy female characters — women who seize every opportunity for fun and don’t let a little thing like age stand in the way of love or desire. In each book Young sets different wheels in motion, applying his comedic touch and pitch-perfect ear for playful couples’ banter. The result is warm, funny, sexy storytelling at its best.

Young got his start writing screenplays, which earned the praise of contest judges while never quite making it to the “green light.” He adapted his second screenplay into a novel and found himself hooked on the new form. Since then, he’s released five novels, one novella, and one short story.

Young’s prolific nature is a gift to fans across the globe who have enthusiastically embraced the Friends With…Benefits series. This fan support has driven the books up the Kindle bestseller lists. If you enjoy romance, sex, and unexpected hilarity, you will love Young’s books.