Bane
Author: LJ Shen
Pub Date: May 6, 2018
Genre: Contemporary
Romance
Synopsis
Bane, the
highly-anticipated next standalone in the Sinners of Saint Series by L.J. Shen
is LIVE
Bane
Naked
surfer. Habitual pothead. A con, a liar, a thief and a fraud.
Last
I heard, he was extorting the rich and screwing their wives for a living.
Which
is why I’m more than a little surprised to find him at my threshold, looking
for my friendship, my services, and most puzzling of all—looking humbled.
Thing
is, I’m on a boycott. Literally—I cut boys from my life. Permanently.
Problem
is, Bane is not a boy, he is all man, and I’m falling, crashing, drowning in
his sweet, perfect lies.
Jesse Carter
Hot
as hell, cold as ice.
I
wasn’t aware of her existence until a fat, juicy deal landed in my lap.
She’s
a part of it, a little plaything to kill some time.
She
is collateral, a means to an end, and a side-bonus for striking a deal with her
oil tycoon stepdad.
More
than anything, Jesse Carter is a tough nut to crack.
Little
does she know, I have the f****** teeth for it.
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Excerpt
Bane
Then.
A liar.
A con.
A godless thief.
My reputation was a big wave that I rode, one
that swallowed everyone around me, drowning every attempt to fuck with what’s
mine.
I’d been known as a stoner, but power was my
real drug of choice. Money meant nothing. It was tangible, and therefore easy
to lose. See, to me, people were a game. One I’d always known how to win.
Move the rooks around.
Change the queen when necessary.
Guard the king at all fucking times.
I was never distracted, never deterred, and
never jealous.
So, imagine my surprise when I found myself
being all three at once.
It was a siren with coal black hair who robbed
me of riding the biggest wave I’d seen that summer. Of my precious attention.
Of my goddamn breath.
She glided from the ocean to the beach like
nightfall.
I crouched down, straddling my surfboard,
gawking.
Edie and Beck stopped beside me, floating on
their boards in my periphery.
“This one’s taken by Emery Wallace,” Edie had
warned. Thief.
“This one’s the hottest masterpiece in town.”
Beck had chuckled. Con.
“More importantly, she only dates rich
bastards.” Liar.
I had all the ingredients to pull her in.
Her body was a patch of fresh snow. White,
fair, like the sun shone through her, never quite soaking in. Her skin defied
nature, her ass defied my sanity, but it was the words on her back that made my
logic rebel.
It wasn’t her curves or the way she swayed her
hips like a dangling, poisonous apple that
warranted my reaction to her.
It was that tattoo I had noticed when she swam
close to me earlier, the words trickling down the nape of her neck and back in
a straight arrow.
My Whole Life Has Been Pledged to This Meeting
with You
Pushkin.
I only knew one person who went gaga over the
Russian poet, and, like the famous Alexander, he was currently six feet under.
My friends began to paddle back to shore. I
couldn’t move. It felt like my balls were ten tons heavy. I didn’t believe in
love at first sight. Lust, maybe, but even that wasn’t the word I was looking
for. No. This girl fucking intrigued me.
“What’s her name?” I snatched Beck’s ankle,
yanking him back to me. Edie stopped pedaling and looked back, her gaze
ping-ponging between us.
“Doesn’t matter, bro.”
“What’s. Her. Name?” I repeated through a
locked jaw.
“Dude, she’s, like, way young.”
“I will not repeat myself a third time.”
Beck’s throat bobbed with a swallow. He knew
damn well that I didn’t mess around. If she was legal—it was on.
“Jesse Carter.”
Jesse Carter was going to be mine before she
even knew me.
Before I even knew her.
Before her life turned upside down and her fate
rewrote itself with her blood.
So here was the truth that even my lying ass
wouldn’t admit later on in our story—I wanted her before.
Before she became business.
Before the truth caged her in.
Before the secrets gushed out.
I never did get to surf that day.
My surfboard broke.
Should have known it was an omen.
My heart was going to be next in line.
And for a small chick, she did one hell of a
fucking job obliterating it.
About LJ Shen
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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