Scandalous, the highly anticipated next standalone in the Sinners of Saint Series by LJ Shen is available NOW!
Title: Scandalous
Author: L.J. Shen
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Synopsis
They call him The Mute for a reason.
Hard, cold and calculated, he rarely speaks.
When he does, it’s with disdain.
When he does, his words aren’t meant for me.
When he does, my stomach flips and my world tilts on its axis.
He is thirty-three.
I am eighteen.
He’s a single dad and my father’s business partner.
I’m just a kid to him and his enemy’s daughter.
He’s emotionally unavailable.
And I am…feeling. Feeling things I shouldn’t feel for him.
Trent Rexroth is going to break my heart. The writing isn’t just on the wall, it’s inked on my soul.
And yet, I can’t stay away.
A scandal is the last thing my family needs. But a scandal is what we’re going to give them.
And oh, what a beautiful chaos it will be.
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Excerpt
Excerpt
Trent’s
gaze cut to mine and stopped when his grays met my blues. The fading
noise of Vicious barking at people to move along, and my father
finally letting go of my arm to move toward Jaime and Dean—probably
trying to gain both allies and sympathy—died down.
“I
don’t like you,” Rexroth whispered under his breath, his voice
harsh.
“I
never asked you to.” I shrugged.
“You
won’t be working here.” His arm brushed my shoulder, but I didn’t
think it was by accident. I let loose a sugary smile, scanning his
face and torso for no other reason other than to taunt him. “Good,
you’ll be doing me a favor. My father is the one forcing me to work
here. He’s pissed I turned down five Ivy League colleges. Remind
me, Mr. Rexroth—which top tier university did you attend for your
degree?”
The
low blow was supposed to retrieve some of my lost dignity, but bile
burned my throat, shotgunned from my stomach. Trent Rexroth was known
in Todos Santos as an exhilarating success story, rising from the
gutters of San Diego. He went to a shitty state college that accepted
even the illiterate, working as a janitor on campus after hours.
Those were given facts he’d recited himself in an interview for
Forbes.
Had
I really just tried to make him feel less worthy because he wasn’t
born with a silver spoon in his mouth? It made me sicker than wearing
my mother’s designer garbs.
Trent
smiled, leaning into my body, into my soul.
His smirk was more frightening than any scowl, frown, or grimace I’d
ever seen. It threatened to tear me apart and sew me back together
however he pleased.
“Edie.”
His lips were dangerously close to my ear. A delicious shiver moved
down my spine. Something warm rolled inside of me, begging to unknot
and flower into an orgasm. What was happening, and why the hell was
it happening? “If you know what’s best for you, you will turn
around and leave right now.”
I
elevated my head to meet his gaze and showed him my version of a
grin. I was born and raised in a world of intimidating rich men, and
I’d be damned if I go down like my mother—addicted to xanax,
Gucci, and a man who paraded her on his arm for a short, glorious
decade before keeping her solely for public appearances.
“I
think I’m going to go find my desk now. I’d wish you a good day,
Mr. Rexroth, but I think that ship has sailed. You’re a miserable
man. Oh, and one for the road.” I fished for a Nature Valley bar in
my mother’s purse and plastered it to his hard, muscled chest. My
heart slammed into my neck, fluttering like a caged bird.
I
hurried after my father as he glided down the vast, golden-hued
hallway, not daring to look back. Knowing I’d started a war and
arrived unequipped. But I also knew something else that gave me a
surfer’s rush—if I could slam the final nail in my employment
coffin and make Rexroth vote against me, I’d be off the hook.
I
had just the plan for it. All I had to do was act like a brat. Game
on.
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About the Author
L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat. Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards. She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.
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