THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE
Sex, Love & Stiletto's #4
Lauren Layne
Loveswept
As Lauren Layne’s salacious Sex, Love
& Stiletto series returns, a jaded columnist discovers a steamy way to get
over an old flame: falling for him all over again.
As
Stiletto magazine’s authority on all things breakup-and-heartache, Emma
Sinclair writes from personal experience. Five years ago, Emma was Charlotte,
North Carolina’s darling debutante and a blushing bride-to-be. Now she’s the
ice queen of the Manhattan dating scene. Emma left her sultry Southern drawl
behind, but not even her closest friends know that with it she left her heart.
Now Emma’s latest article forces her to face her demons—namely, the devilishly
sexy guy who ditched her at the altar.
After
giving up everything for a pro-soccer career, Alex Cassidy watches his dreams
crumble as a knee injury sidelines him for good. Now he’s hanging up his cleats
and giving journalism a shot. It’s just a coincidence that he happens to pick a
job in the same field, and the same city, as his former fiancée . . . right?
But when Emma moves in next door, it’s no accident. It’s research. And Alex
can’t help wondering what might have been. Unlike the innocent girl he
remembers, this Emma is chic, sophisticated, and assertive—and she wants
absolutely nothing to do with him. The trouble is, Alex has never wanted her
more.
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Lauren Layne is the USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance.
Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in e-commerce and web-marketing. In 2011, she and her husband moved from Seattle to New York City, where Lauren decided to pursue a full-time writing career. It took six months to get her first book deal (despite ardent assurances to her husband that it would only take three). Since then, Lauren's gone on to publish ten books, including the bestselling Stiletto series, with several more on the way in 2015.
Lauren currently lives in Chicago with her husband and spoiled Pomeranian. When not writing, you'll find her at happy hour, running at a doggedly slow pace, or trying to straighten her naturally curly hair.
Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in e-commerce and web-marketing. In 2011, she and her husband moved from Seattle to New York City, where Lauren decided to pursue a full-time writing career. It took six months to get her first book deal (despite ardent assurances to her husband that it would only take three). Since then, Lauren's gone on to publish ten books, including the bestselling Stiletto series, with several more on the way in 2015.
Lauren currently lives in Chicago with her husband and spoiled Pomeranian. When not writing, you'll find her at happy hour, running at a doggedly slow pace, or trying to straighten her naturally curly hair.
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“You’re
looking . . . glamorous,” Camille said, as Emma crossed her legs and carefully
made sure her short satin dress didn’t ride up.
“Long
story,” Emma said. Though her friends had an easy relationship with Camille,
Emma was newer to the group—newer to Stiletto—and she wasn’t quite secure
enough in her position at the company to run her mouth.
Not
that Emma was ever one to run her mouth. She was more the live-and-let-live
type.
It
was a natural evolution for someone who’d grown up with a twin sister who’d had
more than enough personality for the both of them. And speaking of her twin,
Emma had no doubt that Daisy’s southern-belle sensibilities would probably be
all why, I
never! if she could see Emma’s current state of
dishevelment.
Emma’s
perfectly coiffed sister would have found a way to emerge from a flooded
apartment looking every bit as darling as she had at the daffodil parades. All the daffodil parades.
It
hadn’t been easy being Daisy Sinclair’s quiet, boring sister. When they were
growing up, Daisy had been the quintessential little princess. She always
wore dresses, and the dresses would never have lemonade spilled down the front
like Emma’s. Daisy knew exactly what to say to boys to make
them fall all over themselves, whereas Emma had been horribly shy around the
opposite sex.
When
Emma had gotten engaged first, she’d been braced for Daisy’s resentment. Not
because Daisy was generally resentful, but because everyone—Emma included—had
assumed that Daisy would be the first sister down the aisle. But nobody had
been happier for Emma and Cassidy than Daisy. Because as if it weren’t enough
that Daisy were the charming one, she was also good. Emma
would be annoyed if she didn’t love her sister so damn much.
And
as it turned out, Daisy had been the first—and only—twin to walk down the aisle
after all. Of course, she’d also been the only sister to get divorced. Daisy
always joked that the twins had two unshakable things in common: a face and a
shit-ton of heartache.
Except
Daisy hadn’t actually said the “shit-ton” part. That was Emma’s special profane
spin on the situation.
“I’ll
tell you mine if you tell me yours,” Camille said.
“Sorry?”
Camille
pointed a coral fingernail at Emma’s still-damp hair. “You tell me why you’re
rocking the fresh-outta-the-shower look, and I’ll tell you while I’m leaving my
darling magazine in the hands of one of the Oxford
buffoons.”
Emma
pursed her lips. Couldn’t argue about the buffoon part. Although she
was pretty sure that, despite her boss’s words, there was plenty of mutual
respect between Cassidy and Camille. Still, Camille always saw Oxford as a
bit of an enemy. The competition, so to speak.
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