Bøker av Lauren Blakely

Two star hockey players and their best friend's little sister in a runaway bride rom com!Picture this. I'm about to walk down the aisle when the groom decides to drop this news on me - he wants to dial it down to just f-buddies.That's when my brother's two pro-hockey playing buddies help me escape seconds before the wedding march begins.But what's a runaway bride to do with a broken heart and a non-refundable honeymoon? Book an extra ticket and take two off-limits, totally charming, absolutely gorgeous star athletes who want to lift my spirits.When we arrive there's only bed in the hotel room.And it happens to fit three. The goalie, the forward and me.Looks like I'm about to get thoroughly pucked on my double honeymoon. Talk about lifting my spirits...Thoroughly Pucked is a standalone hockey, brother's best friends, runaway bride MFM romance with a guaranteed why-choose style HEA! No swords cross. This story is perfect for fans of spicy hockey romance!

"A Lauren Blakely book is a guarantee of a good time." -Meghan Quinn, USA Today bestselling authorGrumpy meets sunshine with a Hollywood twist in this charming and hilarious small town romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely. I really don't need a bodyguard-I run a small-town lavender farm, for bee's sake! But I'm getting one anyway since my identical twin sister just booked the movie role of a lifetime and it's being shot in my hometown. And guess who my new broody, tattooed protector is? None other than the guy I had a one-night stand with last month. Correction: he's the guy with the wicked mouth and heated eyes who ran out on me before the bang without so much as goodbye. And of course he arrives in my tiny hometown where the film is shooting right in the nick of time to save me from the paparazzi at the market. The coffee shop. The dress shop too. I'm trying hard to stay mad after the third time the sexy jerk rescues me. Maybe just one night would relieve all this tension? But one night turns into another, and then into sharing hearts and secrets that are best locked up. Especially since he's leaving and I'm staying, and there's no way we can be more than a summer romance that ends far too soon.

A forbidden romance with my brother's hockey-playing teammate wasn't on my to-do list when I moved across the country...I uprooted my quiet life for a new job in the city, not to spend my first evening here with a sexy stranger who rescues me when I'm locked out of my friend's apartment wearing nearly nothing. Then rescues me from an O drought.But the next morning, I learn the generous, filthy-mouthed man from last night is not only my brother's new hockey teammate. He's also - wait for it - my brand new roommate.The last thing I need is a complicated fling, and Wesley doesn't want to rock the team boat, so we agree to a friends-only rule.It's not easy though when the shameless flirt walks around the house shirtless. Or when he gives me heated looks that make my pulse pound.It's harder still to stay friendly when he offers me rides to work, pitches in at my library's fundraiser and takes care of me when I get hurt. He makes me feel seen in a way I've never experienced before.I don't know how long I can stick to our rules, especially the night Wes comes to my door and tells me exactly how he'd like to break them.Every single one.

"A Lauren Blakely book is a guarantee of a good time." -Meghan Quinn, USA Today bestselling authorWhen the hot new quarterback desperately needs a fake girlfriend he turns to his best friend's sister, only to find that sometimes the woman for you is the one who's been by your side all along...When I enter the Most Valuable Playboy charity auction, my goal is simple-be the player who goes for the most dough. But when trouble shows up at the auction, I need a whole new play. Enter Violet-she's my best friend's sister and she's my close friend too. With a smile as sweet as cherry pie and a mind that runs quicker than the 40-yard-dash, Violet saves the day with the highest bid. I don't even give her a two-minute warning before I kiss her in front of the whole crowd and then announce that she's my girlfriend. Which would be fine except my agent tells me we've got to keep up the act while he's negotiating my contract. Violet takes one for the team and pretends to be mine, and soon our boyfriend-girlfriend scrimmage quickly turns into a full contact sport. But falling for her wasn't in the playbook...

The best way to save my little shop? Marry my fake fiancé for real...When a sexy single dad walks into my shop and buys every box of chocolate just to ask me out, I say yes. By the end of a smoldering night, I'm saying oh yes.And in the morning I'm saying yes, yes, yes to an idea that can save both our businesses so long as Gage and I pretend to be engaged and wildly in love. But since my messy life is riding on this new venture, we agree that our one night was our only night.Except, all our fake kisses quickly melt my resolve. Gage says he has no room in his life for romance, but he touches me like he can't get enough. Tells me he can't resist me. And gets down on one knee in the most romantic fake proposal ever.But when my vindictive corporate rival threatens to expose the lie of us, my protective fiancé steps up and declares I'm his wife.Looks like I just walked into a marriage of convenience.At the end of the year, I'll walk out of it...as long as I don't fall for my husband.

Be seduced by the sensual, emotionally-charged Seductive Nights series and this tale of two red-hot lovers in the city of sin... Happy endings don't come easily. They're hard-won and I'm going to have to keep earning mine...I thought my future with the fiery Julia Bell was clear sailing.But life doesn't work that way and trouble looms in every corner. Trouble from clients, trouble with timing, and, most of all, trouble from her past returns on our trip to Vegas. A dangerous man who knows much more about my woman than he should surfaces in Sin City where we're enjoying a dirty, delicious weekend getaway. But I'll do everything to protect her, no matter the cost...as long as I'm not too late. The reading order for the NYT Bestselling Seductive Nights series is Night After Night, After This Night, and One More Night and A Wildly Seductive Night.

The sexy, emotional sequel to the NYT Bestseller Night After Night...Some women are impossible to forget no matter how hard you try.Believe me, I've tried to get the gorgeous and captivating bartender out of mind since she skipped out after one seductive weekend together.Trouble is, I can't. Since she's in my heart.When I run into her at her sister's wedding, she falls into my arms again, and my bed.Finally, she tells me everything, and it's my turn at last - to help her find her way out of the trouble that's been chasing her.As long as I can keep her far away from the men who put a price tag on her head.

Experience all the feels in this unforgettable, second chance, standalone romance from #1 New York Times bestseller Lauren Blakely! I didn't break her heart, and she didn't break mine -- we broke each other's.I never stopped loving her, but time and distance played its cruel role in ripping us apart three years ago when she moved halfway around the world. Now after all those endless miles away, she's returned . . . but I'm not the guy I was before.Beautiful, kind, and loving, she's the same -- my hope.The only one who can make a day better, who can make me feel again with one kiss, one touch, one night.There's so much I have to put back in place now that I'm alone and on my own. Things I never wanted at the age of twenty-five. When I receive an unexpected letter that might hold the clues to everything I desperately need to understand about my family, I'm sure I have to follow it. But that means leaving her once more.She says she'll come with me, and having her by my side will unbreak my heart . . . or destroy it.That's the chance I have to take.

The rules of the game were simple.One weekend.We play our roles. Actually, we play lots of roles. I get the info I need for a secret work project. We go back to how we were. That's what I proposed to handsome, clever, commanding Jake. That's what he said yes to - this decadent gift of a weekend that would get me out of trouble. But that's not what happened when our nights together in Vegas ended . . .

Midnight in Paris meets Night at the Museum! A gorgeous standalone forbidden romance with magical elements! Fall in love with The Muse, a sweeping romance set in a modern day Paris that's full of magic, art, mysteries, and passion from #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely!The first time a woman stepped out of a painting, I thought I was seeing things.The second time, I thought I was going mad.The night she emerged from a Renoir, I felt something else entirely - a deep stirring of desire, and the wish to get to know the brilliant beauty who's been trapped inside a painted garden for years.She can only come out at night in the Musée d'Orsay, where I work. There, after hours, we wander through galleries, with the Van Goghs, the Monets, and the Toulouse Lautrecs the only witnesses to our midnight kisses and, soon, our trysts.She opens her heart to me, and I learn her story.But she keeps secrets too, ones I hope to unravel. Why she was trapped. Why Renoir is hunting her. And why artwork in famous museums across the world is starting to disintegrate.Why I, too, seem to be the only person who can repair the masterpieces.As I fall deeper for the woman who's trapped in a museum, I'm caught up in another side of Paris after dark, one inhabited by forgers, ghosts of famous artists and, impossibly, by Muses.But someone is after the woman I'm falling in love with, and it's up to me to save her...even if it means losing everything I've found with her.

Let me just say -- none of this was supposed to happen. I didn't expect the letter to go viral. I didn't think anyone would figure out who Dear Sexy Ex was. And I especially never thought he would find out about it. Yeah, bit of a miscalculation there. But see, I need the money to fund my brand new venture. And Dear Sexy Ex, well, it turns out he needs me to save his business. By becoming his fake fiancee. Yup, that's the pickle I find myself in -- pretending to be madly in love with the charming, brilliant, and utterly infuriating man known as Dear Sexy Ex.Only, it's not an act. And he can never know.Dear Sexy Ex-Boyfriend is a standalone romance you can escape into! The other standalone romances in The Guys Who Got Away series include The What if Guy and Thanks For Last Night!

It should be an easy rule to follow - don't bang your boss...But I didn't know who he was when I met him. And the first time I saw him, our connection sounded like the stuff of romantic legends -- that whole "their eyes locked across a crowded room" moment that turned into more.I didn't believe it. . . . until it happened to me.Fine, the charming, clever, sexy-as-sin guy in the tailored suit was only trying to buy the same Snoopy lunchbox (as a gift!), but still, our eyes totally locked, and my lady parts definitely tingled as we vied for the prize.Naturally, I did what any badass business woman would do. Negotiated for the lunchbox, then found my what-if guy online and made plans to see him the next night.One night only -- that was the deal we made. But one fantastic night had us both changing our minds in the morning. And making plans for another.Until I walked into the office to learn he just bought my company.And here's the biggest rule of romantic legends -- no matter what, don't bang your boss. Especially if you're already falling for him.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely comes the final book in the sexy, emotional and deliciously addictive No Regrets trilogy.It started as one night. It turned into a friendship. Then Harley became my everything.She owns me, heart, mind and body. And for a few brief days, our future seems bright and certain.Until, the past wraps its arms around us in so many terrible ways. Someone I never expected to see again reappears in my life.Trying to keep us apart.I'll do anything for her, but the question is - will anything even be enough?Every Second With You is the final novel in the No Regrets and should be enjoyed following The Thrill of It.

A sexy enemies-to-lovers standalone, rich with masquerades, billionaires and forbidden trysts! When the invitation arrived, it detailed the rules of the masquerade--no names, no identities.I set one more--find a most wicked man for one night.The kind who'll bring me deliciously naughty pleasure in dark corners.But as the clock ticks to midnight, he finds me, whisks me away to a secret alcove, and delivers all that dirty bliss and then some.We make arrangements for another secret rendezvous before I rush out of the ball. But fate has other plans, since I see my most wicked man the next morning.He's the billionaire owner of the hotel across the Strip from mine.My rival. My enemy.We vie for business every second of every day, so the last thing I can do is let him in my bed at night.I give in one final time, in a daring, risqué game of chance, and then I vow to resist.And that's what I do every time I see him, every time I get to know the brilliant, mercurial man who wants a piece of my business.Until the night he ups the stakes. And I have no choice but to see his bet and raise it.

I couldn't have scripted a more perfect night.For one fantastic evening, at a masquerade party in the heart of Manhattan, I'm not the millionaire everyone wants a piece of. Fine-multimillionaire. But who's counting all those commas? Not me, and not the most intriguing woman I've ever met, who happens to like dancing, witty banter, and hot, passionate up-against-the-wall sex as much as I do.There's no need for names or business cards. And that's why I'm eager to get to know her more, since my mystery woman seems to like me for me, rather than for my huge...bank account.Everything's coming up aces. Until the next day when things get a little complicated.Newsflash - a lot complicated. She's writing an exposé on me.

Just my luck - my new next door neighbor is a unicorn.Yep, the British hottie is clearly a mythical man because - get this - he's a sexy, witty, charming, big-hearted single dad.Who, wait for it, wants to find Mrs. Right and get hitched.Darn shame I'm not on the market. I'm a single parent like him, and raising my teenage daughter is my top priority. Plus, falling for a guy who shares your property line is a line you shouldn't cross.Still, I'm an outgoing gal, so I do the neighborly thing and offer to be his dating insider. Surely, I can help this small town's most eligible bachelor ever navigate his way through all the fantastic single ladies eager to make his acquaintance. What could possibly go wrong in helping the dream guy next door find his one true love?So I set him up on one date, two dates, three dates -- and I'm about to find out exactly how dangerous my offer is.

A friends-to-lovers, stuck-in-a-cabin sexy romantic comedy!I'll be the first to admit I've got it bad for my good friend Mia. But I've never acted on this crush. She's my best friend's little sister and, oh, there's that little problem of her living three thousand miles away.So I resist her every time I see her...until one night she's in town and she confesses she's been wanting me too.What's a guy to do? I give in till she's screaming out my name.But in the morning we swear we won't let it ruin our friendship.Especially since she hires my adventure tour company for a week-long retreat for her new business.If there's one thing I'm committed to, it's running a squeaky clean business. Number one on my list of iron-clad rules?Don't screw your customers.It's hands off when we head into the woods.At least that was the plan until we wind up stuck in a tent, then a car, then a cabin...Find out what happens next in this he-falls-first sexy romance!

A charming British hero, the woman who tempts him, and a hands-off arrangement that's oh-so-hard to maintain...My bags are packed and I'm ready to go.All I have to do is board a plane, and I'll be on my way to fulfilling a promise I made long ago. Bonus points -- my last week in Paris looks to be even better when I meet a gorgeous, clever American woman and make plans to take her back to my flat that night.But before we can get together for what would surely be a fantastic final fling, my boss hits me with a double whammy. My previous client didn't pay, so the trip's postponed, and the new client I now desperately need is none other than the tempting American I'm about to take home.Time to keep my hands to myself. And as I do, we get to know each other while we wander the streets of Paris together, where I discover she's witty, kind and has a delicious zest for life. Trouble is, I'm taking off for the other side of the world any day now.What could go wrong with falling in love in Paris? Everything, if one of you is leaving...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely comes the next book in the sexy, emotional and deliciously addictive No Regrets trilogy...I swear I'm changing. I'm trying so damn hard to step into the wild unknown of my future.At least Trey is on the other side waiting for me, and he's the closest I've ever come to something real, something true, something like love instead of addiction.But when I learn what the man I love has been hiding from me, I fear our future will be riskier than I ever could have imagined.And I don't know how the hell I'll ever be ready for it.The Thrill of It is the second novel in the No Regrets and should be enjoyed following The Start of Us. Trey and Harley's story concludes in Every Second With You.

A week-long trip. A fake marriage. And seven delicious nights with only one bed in the hotel room.He's my business partner, my good friend, and the man I've craved for years.But I've resisted the sexy Brit, and I plan to keep up my walls because I've been there, done that, and I know how much it hurts when you let someone into your heart.Then an opportunity comes along for us to snag the business deal of a lifetime.The catch?We need to pretend we're married to pull off this high-stakes deal.So the clever, charming man with secrets a mile deep becomes my temporary husband, as we travel around Europe. Soon, we fall into bed, tangled together like newlyweds who can't keep their hands off each other.One week to explore our fantasies, then we return to who we were.But when I learn the dark secrets he's been keeping, I doubt we can go back.Because they change everything.

A box set of the three full length Seductive Nights Novels! Night After Night I wasn't looking for a man like Clay Nichols, with a dirty mind and a mouth to match. But then he walked into my life one night and he's everything I want. He's also exactly what I can't have. Because there's a price tag on my head. I'm a wanted woman and I owe debts that were never mine.Clay is irresistible though, so I steal away to New York to spend one delicious weekend with the man who unlocks pleasure in me I never knew was possible, and who captivates my mind.But when I return home, trouble is waiting for me and for everyone I care about. After This Night Some women are impossible to forget no matter how hard you try.Believe me, I've tried to get the gorgeous and captivating bartender out of mind since she skipped out after one seductive weekend together.Trouble is, I can't. Since she's in my heart.When I run into her at her sister's wedding, she falls into my arms again, and my bed.Finally, she tells me everything, and it's my turn at last - to help her find her way out of the trouble that's been chasing her.As long as I can keep her far away from the men who put a price tag on her head.One More Night Happy endings don't come easily. They're hard-won and I'm going to have to keep earning mine...I thought my future with the fiery Julia Bell was clear sailing.But life doesn't work that way and trouble looms in every corner. Trouble from clients, trouble with timing, and, most of all, trouble from her past returns on our trip to Vegas. And I'll do everything to protect her, no matter the cost...

A sexy, emotional, suspenseful romance novel from #1 New York Times Bestselling author Lauren Blakely...Some women are just off-limits. But that doesn't stop me from wanting Elle Mariano. She's clever, big-hearted and the sexiest woman I've ever met. The thing is, she's fighting the demons of her past and do I ever know how hard those are to battle.So I try my best to be her shoulder to lean on. Until the night we combust. And one night turns into hot, dirty days, and secret trysts.If it all sounds too good to be true, it is. Because once I learn the secret she's keeping from me, my entire family's future turns riskier than I ever imagined.Especially since the bastards who tried to tear my family apart years ago are tailing both of us now.Our every move...

A sexy standalone second chance romance between a single dad athlete and the woman who got away!Things that suck on my wedding day -- walking in on my groom kissing another woman twenty minutes before the ceremony.Things that suck worse? The woman he's kissing is my mom.I head straight for the bowling alley bar down the street and ask for a double. And in walks a deliciously charming local football hero -- Harlan Taylor.Yes, I'll take another drink in the form of a one-night stand with this hunk of a man. In the morning, he asks if I want to get together again. More rebound nookie? Yes please!But then I learn his football team just hired my yoga studio to teach downward facing dog to their star player, making my O-delivering hottie officially off limits.Trouble is, the more time I spend working with the sexy single dad who dotes on his daughter, the more I'm feeling all the things far too soon.There's no way this can end well, but tell that to my runaway heart...A Wild Card Kiss is a sexy, flirty sports romance featuring a charming, pie-baking, single dad who's never forgotten the red-hot kiss he planted on the feisty, sassy blonde one night years ago and a jilted bride heroine determined to move on from heartbreak. This story contains sexy times that can cure getting-left-at-the-altar blues, and heart-tugging swoony romance that'll melt the most jaded hearts.

When the star receiver needs to rehab his rep, he turns to the only woman who can help... but fighting their desires is the toughest play of all. I've been daydreaming about the off-limits player for years, and resisting him just got harder...As the team's publicist, I desperately need a football player to be the face of our charity calendar. Turns out our one-time party boy receiver Jones Beckett needs a savvy PR woman to manage his new good guy rep.Sounds like a simple give and take, even though I'll be traveling around the country, snapping pictures of the sexy athlete holding rescue kittens and puppies. Still, I'm dedicated to my job, so I'll stick to my iron-clad rule -- don't date a player. And never ever fall for one. No matter how charming, big-hearted and devilishly clever the man is.Once I start spending my off-season days and nights with Jones, I'm following a brand new playbook, one that has me falling hard for the incorrigible flirt -- heart, body and mind.But my job is at stake, and I can't afford to lose that as well as my heart.

A delicious new standalone featuring a strong, protective bodyguard and the beautiful, brilliant hotel heiress he protects...I shouldn't want my bodyguard the way I do. His job is to protect me. It's not to fulfill all my nighttime wishes.And so I resist him, fighting the enticing pull of the powerful man who watches over me.Until the night we combust in my penthouse suite.It won't happen again, we say the next day.Besides, my mission is singular - pull off the event of a lifetime - a one-night only concert with one of the world's biggest rock stars.A man my bodyguard happens to know.And a good bodyguard knows all sorts of things about his client. Turns out he knows my secret desires, and he wants to make them come true. Including a VIP engagement so I can experience both men at the same time...I want to say yes, but what if I fall even more in love with the man whose mission is to keep me safe?One Night Only is a standalone romance in The Extravagant world.

A delicious fake fiancé romance! I don't mean to just blurt it out. "Why, yes I'm engaged!" But once I say it to a potential client, there's only one logical thing to do -- cast the role of my fake fiancé.Easy enough. As a casting director, my job is to find the most talented players for every part, so I choose dreamy, edgy, sexy, sarcastic Reeve. And I sign him up for one week in the role of mine.It's not as if I'll fall for him in five nights even if we get a little cozy one night at theater. It's not as if I'll want more even after a scorching afternoon in the stacks of the New York Public Library.I can't let myself because on Friday at midnight the curtain falls on our fake romance...

Let me list the reasons why dating the sexy, charming pro hockey star is a bad idea: He's one of my closest friends...All our friends are friends...The wounds I've got from past relationships go deep...And so do his.We're both devoutly single -- it's just safer for the heart that way.But there's no reason not to bid on the gorgeous, clever athlete at the charity auction this weekend. If I win, it'll be a "friendsdate."And I do win. I win him big. And hard. And all night long.The trouble is . . . what happens in the morning?

Some fantasies are better left unsaid.Besides, I don't need to act on my wildest dreams, not when my fiancé and I have the kind of after dark adventures others long for - alluring, daring and oh so frequent.I can't risk losing him by voicing my deepest desire, so I focus on building our life together, expanding my career, and prepping for our wedding. But the hotter our role playing gets at night, the closer I come to telling him what I want most during the day.Until the night I do...NOTE: THE ENGAGEMENT GIF was first released as a novella and has now been expanded to a full novel.

There are three little words most guys don't want to hear on the first date."Knock me up."This single gal has had enough of the games, the BS and the endless chase. I know what I want most, and it's not true love. It's a bun in the oven, and I'm not afraid to hit up my sex-on-a-stick co-worker to do the job. Ryder is gorgeous, witty and wild - and he's also a notorious commitment-phobe. That makes him the perfect candidate to make a deposit in the bank of me.I won't fall for him, he won't fall for me, and there's no way baby will make three.Right?

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely comes a second chance romance that'll make your heart feel good! I have a big plan for my career and it most certainly doesn't involve my ex. AKA my first love. It definitely doesn't entail working with him every day on a brand-new project for my jewelry line.And it absolutely doesn't include falling for the man all over again.But the trouble is, he's kind, charming and so darn smart. Not to mention easy on the eyes. And thoughtful, too.Also, he wants to get to know me again. To take me out for coffee, to chat on the phone, to go to museums.It's a dizzying, delicious courtship, but I don't know if my heart can handle this from the man who broke it to pieces once upon a time...Or am I willing to risk everything for a second chance at first love?