SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
by Lauren Blakely
Released – June 2019
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* Audiobook performed by Andi Arndt and Jason Clarke, with Jason performing an album of fully produced classic love songs at the end of the story!
Lauren is donating 10% of the proceeds for SATISFACTION GUARANTEED for the first month to animal rescues! (In honor of the hero being a veterinarian and the heroine working in animal rescue). This donation applies both to ALL preorders and to all sales in the first month across all formats!
Blurb
Look, she started it.
She issued me a challenge I couldn’t back down from. Make her purr like no man has done before.
Fine, she’s my business partner’s daughter. All right, I’m also working in the same damn practice with her. Yes, she happens to be my ex-fling. But that was seven years ago, and it was barely a week-long thing.
Except, Sloane is still the one I can’t stop thinking of — brilliant, sexy, captivating Sloane. Maybe a week of taking her to new heights will get her out of my head.
So what if we spend a few nights on the town too? So what if I romance her across Manhattan? It’s all in the name of scientific pursuit of more magnificent Os.
Until the rules change…
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Review
4.5 stars!!
Oh, how I love second-chance romances and Satisfaction Guaranteed delivers a good one! Full of dirty, flirty, sexy, fun, it is the perfect mix of sugar and spice as Sloane and Malone finally get their shot at love.
Sloane and Malone clicked the instant they met and ended up spending an amazing week together. They knew they had something special and were all for turning their fling into so much more.
During that one delicious week, we were all about lingering talks, kisses on moonlit streets, and deliberate anticipation. We took things slow. We did it by choice, wanting to savor what had promised to be the sweetest, most tantalizing courtship.
Unfortunately, before they could fully explore their connection, Sloane became suddenly off-limits and whatever could be just fizzled out, leaving them with a whole lot of “what if’s.”
Fast forward seven years, Sloane runs an animal rescue and her father, who is Malone’s boss, thinks it would be great idea for her to run it out of his and Malone’s veterinarian practice. Now, Sloane and Malone are back in each other’s space and all the feelings they pushed down before spark to life once again.
The kind of chemistry we have doesn’t disappear with the snap of your fingers or the flip of a switch.
Satisfaction Guaranteed is a well done, believable second-chance romance and I loved it. The characters, the story, the laughs, and the love all drew me into the book and wouldn’t let me go.
Malone and Sloane spent an amazing week together and the only reason they couldn’t be together had nothing to do with them but instead who she was. It’s not dramatic or over the top but rather it was understandable albeit frustrating for them. Their feelings were real yet they knew what they needed to do. Now, they have another shot and I was giddy when they decided to make a move, finally pursuing what could have always been.
“You know why there’s tension.”
“Why?” Her voice trembles.
Yup, the illumination is indeed growing brighter.
“Because you kissed the fuck out of me the other night, and because I’m still thinking about it. And because if your father wasn’t in the bathroom, I’d kiss you even harder right now. So hard you’d see stars. You’d grab your purse and say, ‘Let’s get out of here right now.’ Because you and I have unfinished business, and you know it.”
Sloane and Malone are such entertaining characters and you can’t help but root for them from the get go. I love that they are real, relatable, honest, and trustworthy. They make each other better and are one another’s biggest supporters. It is so sweet and swoony, but they can also light the pages on fire with their charged chemistry and the forbidden aspect making things more intense. Malone and Sloane are delicious together, and I couldn’t get enough of their relationship.
Overall, Satisfaction Guaranteed is an entertaining, original, lighthearted second-chance romantic comedy you don’t want to miss.
*ARC generously provided by the author and Candi Kane PR in exchange for an honest review*
Excerpt
I meet Sloane’s gaze then go for it. Because this night has only one destination. “We should go to Tahiti.”
“Tonight?”
“Too long a flight?”
She lets go of my hand and holds up her thumb and forefinger. “Maybe a little. Not that I’m turning down a trip to Tahiti. Wait? Are you saying you want to take me to Tahiti? Because I can pack like that.”
Smiling, I slide my hand to her ass, squeezing. I whisper roughly in her ear, “I’m saying I’d like to escape with you. Like we’re getting away for the night. Let’s fuck away all this hot, wild desire.”
She exhales then goes quiet, perhaps lost in thought. “But I thought we were going to resist kissing.”
I brush the backs of my fingers along her jaw. “We already failed that test.”
She pouts. “I was supposed to be an un-vixen.”
“Didn’t work. You’re the opposite, and I want you so fucking much.” I press against her. “You have me so wound up. I’m pretty sure you’re wound up too.”
She pushes back. “You know I am. You know I want you too. That was never the issue.”
I have to get closer to her. I need to have her. “Let’s give in. Just once.” I slide my fingers into her hair, she leans her head against my palm, and I continue making my case. “I can take you places. I can make you feel extraordinary, like I’ve always wanted to.”
She hums. “You’re making it hard to say no.”
“True. I’m very hard to resist.”
A smile spreads across her face. “You are, Malone. You’re terribly, impossibly hard to resist.” She nibbles on her bottom lip. “One night. Our secret. What happens in Tahiti stays in Tahiti.”
“Absolutely,” I say as my dick high-fives me.
“And where is this alternate universe?”
I curl my fingers around her hip bone. “My place isn’t far. There’s also a hotel down the block. Either way, I intend to strip you naked, get my lips all over you, and make you feel as fucking good as you looked when you were watching me sing.”
She shudders. “I looked good when I was watching you? How so?”
I run my thumb over her hip, rubbing in slow, sensual circles. “You’re so seductive. You looked so incredibly alluring. You looked exactly as you are—the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met.” My fingers stray to her belly, gliding down the fabric of her dress toward my final destination. “And you and I have unfinished business.”
She leans her head back, and the most delicious moan ever recorded escapes her lips. When she raises her face, she tap-dances her fingers down my chest then runs them over the silk of my tie. “Are you saying we’re going to finish the business tonight?”
“Yes, and then tomorrow . . . we can be friends again.” The thought pains me, but I know this is the only way to deal with our reality.
“Exactly,” she says, nodding her agreement. “We take a trip tonight. We get away to a remote island. And tomorrow we go back to the real world?” She’s seriously considering this. Hell, I’ve already considered it six ways to Sunday in the span of ten seconds, and I say it’s a brilliant plan.
“Let me take care of you tonight. Let me spend the night worshipping your body and driving you wild with pleasure.”
“You say these things . . .”
I grin. “And?”
“And you make it impossible to walk away.” She grabs my tie and tugs my face inches from hers. “But what do you think my voice says?”
I want her to say it. The permission must come from her, and I’m dying for it. “You tell me.”
She brings her mouth to my ear and whispers, hot and sexy, “It says take me to Tahiti. Fuck me hard. Fuck me good. Fuck me senseless.”
That’s the only voice I’m listening to tonight.
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About the Author
A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’ssweet, sexy and witty. Her heroines are strong and smart and her heroes have hearts of gold and fantastic funny bones. With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, and she’s sold more than 3 million books.
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