A BILLIONAIRE AFTER DARK (Overnight Billionaires #2) by Katie Lane-a review

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About the book: Release Date March 29, 2016

With endless wealth comes irresistible temptation . . .

It’s an undisputed fact that Nash Beaumont is the hottest of the Beaumont brothers. His slow, sensual smile charms every French Kiss employee-and tempts every woman to buy the company’s lingerie. But beneath Nash’s raw charisma is a dark, kinky side that he struggles to control . . . a side that may be exposed by one lovely-and unexpectedly adventurous woman.

Reporter Eden Huckabee needs a story. And when she discovers Nash’s dirty little secret, she thinks she’s found it. But Eden doesn’t count on Nash turning the tables on her-or that she will fall so deeply for this unbelievably sexy, one-in-a-billion Beaumont.

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REVIEW: A BILLIONAIRE AFTER DARK is the second installment in Katie Lane’s adult, contemporary OVERNIGHT BILLIONAIRES romance series focusing on the Beaumont Brothers –Deacon, Nash and Grayson. This is French Kiss Lingerie owner Nash Beaumont, and reporter/ bar tender Eden Huckabee’s story line. A BILLIONAIRE AFTER DARK can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Nash and Eden) A BILLIONAIRE AFTER DARK follows reporter Eden Huckabee as she goes undercover as an escort to expose the seedy underworld of prostitution and escorts services in San Francisco. What ensues is a late night encounter with a ‘client’ known only as the ‘Dark Seducer’- a client whose kinky wants and needs find our heroine entering a domain she knows nothing about. When the escort service mistakenly believes that Eden is setting up her own nightly business, not only is Eden threatened, but so too, are the other girls who inadvertently allowed Eden to ‘entertain’ one of their clients.

The relationship between Eden and Nash is one that begins as a professional service but Eden’s inexperience throws a bit of a wrench into Nash wants and needs. Nash is a man with a dark and secreted past-a past filled with heartbreak and betrayal that have shaped the man that Nash has become. Eden is a woman on a mission; determined to make it in the world of investigative journalism but finds herself falling in love with the man she is using to uncover the truth. The $ex scenes are seductive and provocative. Eden’s lie of omission about the investigation finds our heroine alone when the truth is finally revealed.

The secondary and supporting characters include Nash’s brothers Grayson, and Deacon ( A Billionaire Between the Sheets ), as well as Deacon’s wife Olivia, and her step-mother whose own love life is about to implode. PA Kelly, and her fiancée / lawyer Jason return as they prepare for their own upcoming nuptials. And of course, Eden’s hippie grandparents-the Beaumont’s nudist neighbors-make for some entertaining scenarios.

The world building continues to focus on the rehabilitation of The French Kiss Lingerie company, and the Beaumont Brothers endeavor to design comfortable but sexy lingerie. The reader is also brought into the family dynamics-the history of the Beaumont siblings, their father Donny John, and the mother who died too young.

A BILLIONAIRE AFTER DARK is an emotional story line about one man’s dark past that has tormented his adult life; about one woman trying to make it big as a journalist in a world of which she is unprepared; and about a couple who fall in love but are destroyed by betrayal and lies. The premise is fateful and dramatic; the characters are charismatic, inspiring and fun; the romance is passionate, emotional and somewhat destructive-lies, even by omission, make for awkward bedfellows when the truth is revealed in black and white.

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Reviewed by Sandy