Braelynn Wolf is focused on two things: work and law school.
That is how she survives.
That is how she’ll make a difference.
Until she meets HIM.
Peyton Haas is sexy, dangerous, and forbidden. The defense attorney on Braelynn’s first legal case is the only man who can cloud her judgment. Unable to stay away, she finds herself lying to everyone around her so she can spend time with the man who makes her feel things she never felt before—things she never dreamed possible.
With the legal case hanging on a thread, can Braelynn ignore the relationship she has built with Peyton?
Or will she succumb to the man who has the power to throw away her future?
That is how she survives.
That is how she’ll make a difference.
Until she meets HIM.
Peyton Haas is sexy, dangerous, and forbidden. The defense attorney on Braelynn’s first legal case is the only man who can cloud her judgment. Unable to stay away, she finds herself lying to everyone around her so she can spend time with the man who makes her feel things she never felt before—things she never dreamed possible.
With the legal case hanging on a thread, can Braelynn ignore the relationship she has built with Peyton?
Or will she succumb to the man who has the power to throw away her future?
The bar was crowded, so I scooted between two men who had their backs to each other and waited to get the bartender’s attention. She patrolled the bar, pouring a few drinks before she headed my way. Then she passed right by me and started talking to the gentleman next to me, never once looking in my direction. I looked down at his full drink; he didn’t need anything from her.
Seriously?
He wore perfectly tailored designer suit pants which hugged his ass and sculpted legs. His fitted, light gray shirt wrapped around his trim torso and arms like it was custom-made. He was tall and handsome, from the side at least, and totally fuckable. He looks like the kind of guy who'd give me that up-all-night-making-my-body-ache-so-I-can-no-longer-walk-the-next-day kind of sex.
Wow. I seriously need to get laid.
I closed my eyes for a brief second as I tried to calm my raging hormones. When I reopened them, he was staring right back at me.
Fuck me.
He wasn’t sexy. No, that word wasn’t enough to describe what this man was. He was an alluring come-hitter, as Kennedy would call him—guaranteed to make you come every time he hit it. It was dark so his facial features were hard to make out, but from his strong jawline I could tell he looked manly. He smiled, and as the light at Quay changed, I noticed his hazel eyes scanning me from head to toe. My body ignited with desire.
“May I buy you a drink?” he offered. His velvet voice would make any girl melt.
I inhaled deeply, trying to calm my rapid pulse. “No, thanks. I’ve got it as soon as someone starts doing their job.” I locked my eyes on the pink-haired bartender.
Completely oblivious to anyone at the bar who didn’t have a penis between their legs, she walked away when a guy across the bar shouted for her. Sighing, I waited impatiently.
“Let me buy you a drink,” he insisted. “What do you want? Long Island or sex on the beach?”
Really? Was this sex on a stick seriously trying to pick me up when minutes before he was flirting with the bartender? Who did this guy think he was, with his fancy clothes and preconceived notions about a woman’s taste in alcohol? Did he assume every girl drank only those two drinks? I had planned on getting a Long Island, but based on his assumption and arrogance, I decided to make a statement and order something over-the-top.
“Since you insist, I’ll have a Louis the thirteenth.” I met his eyes in challenge, puckering my lips as I waited for his response.
His eyebrow rose and a smirk appeared on his face. “Interesting.” The word poured out of his mouth like silk. I shrugged my shoulders, affecting nonchalance as he took another moment to study me. Calling over to the bartender—who jumped when she heard his voice—he ordered my drink.
“What’s your name, beautiful?” he asked, moving his body closer to mine. I laughed before I shook my head at him. “I just bought you a drink. The least you could do is give me your name.”
“The least, huh?”
“Yes, the least. I want to make sure I know the name of the woman who’s going home with me later.”
When the bartender slid the drink in front of him, I reached across and grabbed the snifter. His eyes locked with mine, but I didn’t say anything. I just lifted my eyebrow, smirked, and walked away. If he was expecting a quick fuck as a thank you, he wasn’t getting it from me.
Asshole.
I didn’t care how scorchingly yummy he was, I refused to be added to his list of drooling girls.
"I couldn't find it in me to be angry. When he was near, I couldn't make my body move in any other direction but toward him. Even so, I knew that if I didn't stop playing with fire, he would be my downfall."
Consenual by Livia Jamerlan is a book about needed more to life then just a career, that sometimes in order to feel alive, you need a passion to be stirred up within your soul and to let it free, no matter what the consequences may be. Consenual follows Braelynn Wolf and her journey to accept the firery passion that Haas gives her in the bedroom, a passion that makes her feel alive, and even when she knows it could be her undoing, a passion that she can't walk away from. I give this book 3.5 stars and would recommend it to others. Beware of the hot bdsm-type sex scenes, but really who can resist reading about a hot, sexy lawyer named Peyton who can be both demanding and soft and gentle at the same time? I know that I sure can't.
Determined to be better than the childhood that her older sister tore her away from, Braelynn Wolf has worked hard her entire life, with one goal; to be a successful lawyer. Earning the coveted internship at her professor's law firm, Brae is on her way to having everything that she wants in life with no distractions, that is until she accompanies her friends for a night of clubbing, where she meets the illustrious Haas. A series of misunderstandings cause her to walk away from a one-night stand with him that she wants more then her next breath, and once she meets him again by chance across the conference room table, all bets are off.
"Yeah, right! I don't chase them; I replace them.
Peyton Haas has relationships with woman that are anything but orthodox. With a penchant for control in the bedroom and submission from his partner, he separates himself into two different personas; Peyton and Haas. It is only when he meets Brae that all of the rules that he has put in place for himself are thrown out the window. He wants her more than for a night or two and he definitely wants her for more than just some steaming hot sex. But he isn't sure if changing his ways is the right thing for him at this point in his life.
"Turning toward me, she laid her head on my chest and wrapped her arms around my torso. Holding her felt great. It felt like....like I was fucking screwed."
Being on opposing sides of a case was holding Brae back from becoming further involved with Peyton and she was warned what it could do to her career by her friends on more then one occasion. Unfortunately when it came to Haas and what he made her feel when they were together; she was unable to resist him and basically pretended that the serious nature of being caught in a relationship with the opposing counsel would cause.
The back and forth with these characters was sometimes funny and sometimes crude, but I enjoyed every minute of it because the banter was so realistic to me. My only issue with the book was some of the sex scenes, as they reminded me of another book slightly; but I was able to look past that in the end while getting to the heart of this story and I know that other readers can do the same. The cliff hanger at the end was something that I hadn't expected and it has me hooked and ready to read book 2!
I was very pleasantly surprised by Consensual by Livia Jamerlan. The synopsis grabbed my attention and I thought... sure… I’ll take a crack at this one. Wooza… I was not expecting the hotness factor to be off the charts! Like I need a cigarette and I don’t smoke hot! Ms. Jamerlan just drew me into the story and never released me. There were times I thought the story would get a bit cliché but overall I really enjoyed it. I did not know this was a series going in so when I got the ending I was like, ummmm… excuse me…. I think I’m missing pages!! But the ending was a bad cliffy. You just know their story isn’t over. The story is told in dual POV.
Braelynn is a hardworking law student doing housekeeping jobs on the side to get her way through school. Her parents passed away when she was young, she was raised by her older sister how has sacrificed so much to get them where they are now. She just accepted her dream internship at her professor’s law firm and given her first case to brief. Little did she know the opposing lawyer would be the uber hot and sexy Peyton Haas who she had met a couple of nights prior at a club.
“He was out of my league. He smelled like forbidden fruit- the kind you bite into and then let the succulent juices slide down the side of your mouth.”
Haas knew he wanted her but Braelynn doesn’t do one night stands. The chemistry between them is off the charts! She is torn between her heart and her responsibility. She is drawn to him and him to her. Even though they know being together is a huge conflict of interest and can cause Braelynn her internship, they cannot fight the feeling of when they are together.
“When he was near, I couldn’t make my body move in any other direction but toward him. Even so, I knew that if I didn’t stop playing with fire, he could be my downfall. But God, do I yearn to get burned.”
When Braelynn starts to uncover the past of the defendant in the lawsuit, she doesn’t realize how dangerous this man is and works harder to try to piece together his past discretions. When a woman comes forward and agrees to testify against him, Braelynn life is put in danger. What happens next had me turning the pages of my kindle and I needed to get to the end. What will happen with Braelynn and Haas relationship? Will the case break the apart or bring them closer together. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out in the 2ndbook. Without the hotness factor I probably would have rated the story at 3.5 stars, but the hot hot hot scenes bumps it up to a 4 star.
Livia Jamerlan is a hopeless romantic she is always looking for her next love story to pop in her head. Though Livia kept a journal throughout her early life, she never thought about pursuing a career in writing, she always used it as form of therapy, pouring her heart out into words. It wasn’t until a story developed in her head that she decided that maybe she could write a book. At first it was just an escape from reality but now she use it as a power to put all her feelings, hopes, and fears on paper. Deciding it was time to tell her story she began to write, with each passing day the story grew, characters we formed, and what seemed like a hobby at first has now become a passion for Livia.
When Livia is not writing she is spending time with her husband and their two dogs, she might also be curled up with a new book, or she is out traveling the country to support indie authors at their book signings.
When Livia is not writing she is spending time with her husband and their two dogs, she might also be curled up with a new book, or she is out traveling the country to support indie authors at their book signings.
