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Scandalous by LJ Shen

Publishing Date: September 29th, 2017

Genre: Contemporary Romance

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.

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.

Holy seahorses! This book is imperfectly perfect. I am left mute! Scandalous by LJ Shen was one of the most awaited books for me over the month. I was patently counting the days for its release and here is this masterpiece, breathing and living. I have many expectations about this baby because all the other books in the series covered the story of each HotHole (Jamie, Vicious and Ruckus) and I swear LJ Shen left Trent Rexroth’s book to the end for a big reason. And I wasn’t wrong. She could never disappoint her readers.

Her writing is my new kind of drug. She is a talented lady who has the power to turn a good story into gold like Midas King. Her books have something that makes them special. The other books in the Sinners of Saint Series are the best I have ever read. Each one better than the other.

This time LJ Shen mixes taboo, age difference and interracial issues. Topics that are sensitive and delicious forbidden. This is not a common book, it is perfection wrapped in a sexy cover.

Trent Rexroth is the last HotHole, the one who hide and says nothing when it is not needed. The one who didn’t have a golden spoon as the others. The one who lost and work harder to become a successful business man. A single dad who loves his little Luna. Words are not his strength. Relationships are not his thing after Luna’s mother left them. His only priority in life is his daughter.

“Trent Rexroth was the silent hunter who would circle you for hours, striking when you least expected it.”

I shall say that Trent is my second favourite of the four HotHoles. Things never were easy for him. He is a hardworking man. He is not perfect. He always gets his way. All is done as he says.

“But only Trent Rexroth looked tortured and serious enough to cross all the bridges in the world and burn them shore to shore to get his way.”

With all of these you will think he has not a weakness but he does: Eddie Van Der Zee.

“Trent Rexroth was more than smart. He was devilishly brilliant. But that wasn’t going to help him in this battle because I made him weak.”

Eddie is a pretty and young girl. The heiress of one of the most power men in Todos Santos and business partner of the HotHoles. Her life never was easy, but as stronger as a girl her age can be, she fights for her beloved ones. She is a caring and kind girl, passionate and smart.

The tension and attraction between Trent and Eddie is going to be intense as the fire of the hell. To Trent will not matter the age difference, not that she is his partner’s daughter. She is the light he and Luna needs.

“I wanted to get wet and let the tide wash over me without dipping a toe in the ocean. I wanted what was forbidden, and wrong, and fucking crazy. I wanted my partner’s daughter, who was nearly half my age.”

Trent is not going to be the Prince; he is going to be the villain (a sexy, cocky villain). And Eddie is going to play as a beautiful broken doll.

“I gravitated toward him like he was the sun. A beautiful pleasure conceived by nature that could very well kill you if you got too close. He looked at me like I was the moon. Pale and lonely and so far away.”

You will love the poetic writing of LJ Shen in this book. Every page was bittersweet. I could not put it down. There was a character in this book who stole my heart: Luna. The pretty girl who loves seahorses because she loves his daddy. She just has him and rather than later she has Eddie too.

Scandalous is a book you do not want to miss because if you have read the other books of the Series, you will have more of the other HotHoles. Trent and Eddie's story is the opposite of Jamie and Mel’s story. Both forbidden but pretty much intense. I highly recommend you this book. LJ Shen’s alpha men are going to ruin you for the others.

(ARC courtesy of author in exchange for an honest review)

5 SEA stars! Poetic and forbidden a singular mix for one of the best books I have read. Perfection wrapped in a sexy cover. Highly recommend!

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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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