If you are looking for another great billionaire book then look no further, The Billionaire Banker by Georgia La Carre is your next read! This guy is cold & calculating but I can definitely see him warming up over the rest of the series! The story starts with our billionaire, the deeply mysterious and dazzlingly gorgeous American banker, Blake Law Barrington seeing our heroine Lana Bloom dressed to kill, propositioning one of our heros rich acquaintances. They have the moment when their eyes lock and then our Blake steals her away from her original bachelor by offering her double the money she was asking for. He doesn’t care why she wants the money, he just wants her (but he doesn’t know why!). That is the not so romantic start to our story, but it had me hooked!
I enjoyed the book and thought that even though the story has been told before, this one had some very original ideas! I liked the idea of a girl from the council flats in London meeting a billionaire American banker. They both have their quirks and their secrets and we only start to see through them in this first book of the series.
The Blurb:
Time is running out for Lana Bloom. She needs money desperately and fast. And the only thing she has to sell is her body. When she walks into that exclusive restaurant she does not know that the highest bidder will not be the rich man she has accompanied into the restaurant.
Utterly confident and breathtakingly handsome, Blake Law Barrington is the fourth generation of an illustrious banking family. He has everything he desires, and everything under control. As is the custom in the great, old houses, marriage is a time of consolidation and expansion. Blake is due to marry Victoria Montgomery, daughter of the Fourth Earl of Hardwicke.
If he had left that restaurant five minutes earlier he would not have seen the girl in the cheap, orange dress and the six-inch high, plastic platforms walk in.
His carefully constructed universe would still be intact…and his terrible secret, safe.
An Excerpt:
Rupert directs his astonished, vicious eyes at Lana’s. ‘You offered yourself to him too?’ His eyes move derisively, hatefully over her.
Lana cringes with shame.
‘Does he know how much you charge?’
‘Do you doubt I will be able to afford her?’ Blake asks coldly.
Rupert shrivels the way a leech that has had salt thrown on it does. ‘This is why you invited me here, isn’t it?’
‘Yes.’
‘What a joke!’ he taunts, but his jibe lacks any real bite. ‘The great Barrington can’t find his own whore. He has to steal mine.’
‘I didn’t steal her,’ Blake notes reasonably. ‘I just offered to pay more.’
Rupert’s eyes bulge, bug-like. ‘She’s just a cheap bloody tart. I’ve just finger-fucked her out there,’ he taunts maliciously, jerking his dandruff-laden head in the direction of the door.
Lana feels Blake’s hand tighten around her waist. ‘Consider it an unearned freebie, then,’ he says quietly, but there is warning in the calm words. A warning that is not lost on Rupert. The air becomes tight with tension. Lana looks from one man to the other. It is like watching two lions fighting for supremacy. But her body knows which lion she wants to win this fight.
Rupert shrugs. He knows he’d be a fool to go against a Barrington. He has much to lose. ‘If you think I’m going to fight over her you’re mistaken. Have her.’
He turns on his heel and leaves.
Blake lets go of Lana. She realizes she is trembling. She leans against the desk, hating herself, but unable to stop—nothing is more important than the money—she asks, ‘Did you…did you mean it about the money?’
Genre: Adult Erotica Modern Romance
Author: Georgia La Carre
Rating: 4 stars
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This is a quick easy read from a new author and has all the bits that I love in my books including the angsty male hero and the beautiful heroine. The writing was good and can only be improved upon with the future books that are scheduled! I am rating this book 4 stars because I really enjoyed it and I am looking forward to the rest of the series.
All in all, I really enjoyed this book while I was reading it and I will definitely be reading the next book in the series when it is released in January 2014!
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