Review Tour & Giveaway: Billionaire Banker

The Billionaire Banker

Book One

By: Georgia Le Carre

Blurb

When Lana Bloom learns the devastating news that her mother is dying, she is faced with a terrible dilemma.  The one thing that can save her is the one thing she does not have.  For young and innocent Lana, the unthinkable becomes her only choice.

But when she walks through the door of that exclusive restaurant she has no idea of the seismic shift her life is about to take, for the highest bidder will not be the rich man she has accompanied.  Fate drops her at the feet of the deeply mysterious and dazzlingly gorgeous American banker, Blake Law Barrington.  Throbbing with raw masculinity and arrogance, this is a man who owns all that he pursues.

And now he wants her.

Lana cannot deny she is both intrigued and intoxicated by the world Blake inhabits and the smouldering passion he stirs in her body, but she is also fearful for this man is addictive, and right now she is very vulnerable.  She knows she should focus only on the arrangement, but how can she…when he has opened a door that cannot be closed?

Buy Link

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Author Info

Georgia Le Carre lives in England, in an old 19th century romantic cottage surrounded by a magical garden filled with fruit and walnut trees. 

When she is not feeding words into her laptop, she is either curled up in bed with a box of chocolates and a good read, or lost in a long walk in the woods. Especially on moonlit nights.  And often with the man of her dreams.

Author Links

Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/georgia.lecarre

Twitter -  https://twitter.com/GeorgiaLeCarre

Email Add:  georgialecarre@gmail.com

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7266555.Georgia_Le_Carre

Excerpt

Rupert directs his astonished, vicious eyes at Lana’s.  ‘You offered yourself to him too?’

 Lana stares mutely at Rupert.  His eyes move derisively, hatefully over her.  She feels herself cringe. 

‘Does he know how much you charge?’

‘Do you doubt I will be able to afford her?’ asks Blake.

Rupert shrivels the way a leech that has had salt thrown on it does.  ‘This is why you invited me here, isn’t it?’ 

‘Yes.’

‘What a joke!’ he taunts, but his jibe lacks any real bite.  ‘The great Barrington can’t find his own whore.  He has to steal mine.’

‘I didn’t steal her,’ Blake notes reasonably.  ‘I just offered to pay more.’

Rupert’s eyes bulge, bug-like.  ‘She’s just a cheap bloody tart.  I’ve just finger-fucked her out there,’ he taunts maliciously, jerking his dandruff-laden head in the direction of the door.

Lana feels Blake’s hand tighten around her waist.  ‘Consider it an unearned freebie, then,’ he says quietly, but there is warning in the calm words.  A warning that is not lost on Rupert.  The air becomes tight with tension.  Lana looks from one man to the other.  It is like watching two lions fighting for supremacy.  But her body knows which lion she wants to win this fight.

Rupert shrugs.  He knows he’d be a fool to go against a Barrington.  He has much to lose.  ‘If you think I’m going to fight over her you’re mistaken.  Have her.’

He turns on his heel and leaves.

Blake lets go of Lana.  She realizes she is trembling.  She leans against the desk, hating herself, but unable to stop—nothing is more important than the money—she asks, ‘Did you mean it about the money?’

Laura's Review: 

There's this trend in romances lately to take a complete story and chop it up into pieces then call it a series without having a separate story arc for each book. I don't mind cliffhangers when they are done well, but just suspending a plot halfway through and not really resolving, well, anything, is not cool unless you are writing a serial. Needless to say, that's what is done here, and what is going to prevent me from giving it more than 3 stars even though I rather enjoyed the book - at least once I got past the initial shock that our heroine was prostituting herself to a stranger (even if it is for a good reason and that stranger is smoking hot, I still find it on the shady side.) Once I got done saying "really?!" to my nook, I let myself enjoy the actual romance between Lana and Blake, who were self-aware enough to compare their story to Fifty Shades of Grey. The way they sort of fumbled around each other became endearing to me and I  wanted to see how it would work itself out. Of course, that's where it ended so abruptly, so I guess I'll have to wait with everyone else on that one.

Billionaire Banker: 3/5 stars

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