SLASH by Laurelin Paige: Blog Tour, Excerpt, Teaser & Mary’s Review – Delish, Devine and All Mine…. one book boyfriend at a time.

Slash, an all new sizzling hot 1,001 Dark Nights Standalone Novella in the Slay series by New York Times bestselling author Laurelin Paige is available now!

Camilla Fasbender has a secret.

Underneath her posh accent and designer clothes lies the evidence of her pain.

Every heartbreak, every bad day, every setback has left a scar.

From behind her camera, she shows the world what to see. And it isn’t her.

Until him.

He sees right through her carefully constructed facade.

And he’s going to slash it all to pieces.

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Excerpt

Hendrix didn’t strike me as ridiculous. Or impulsive. Or silly.
Why on earth, then, would he believe that there could be something worth seeking out with me? If that’s what he meant at all. Which…he did, didn’t he?
It’s confusing, and confusion makes me hide, on the whole. But since I can’t hide because I’m the fucking teacher in this class—seriously, how did this happen?—and for some reason the educator is expected to stay present, I find my confusion turning to anger. It works itself through me until the beauty of our night together is cropped out of my memory and what’s left is trite and fleeting. His presence feels nothing like flattery—which it did feel flattering, admittedly, for a half second there in the midst of everything else. Now, though, it just feels invasive and unprofessional and mean.
Perhaps I’d confront him about it, if I were a different sort of person, one who isn’t afraid to stand up to a challenge. One who isn’t afraid to live her life.
But I’m not that sort of person, so after I give out the assignments and send the students on their way, I plan to gather my things and get on my way as soon as possible, so fond of hiding that I am. I was stupid enough to believe—or perhaps hopeful is the better term—that Hendrix would let me do that, as he’d let me leave that night in Paris, not that I’d given him a choice.
He doesn’t, though, of course. Of course. He approaches me, his leather camera bag slung over his shoulder, a man satchel underneath.
“Camilla,” he says in that American accent that makes me both cringe and swoon all at once, and for the briefest of moments I find myself considering something different for a change. I consider staying.
But underneath my long sleeve polo neck, my skin throbs with an intensity that equals the blaring of a car alarm, and I think of Fred waiting for me at home to take him out for ice cream and the dead husband who hurt me as much as he loved me and the ugliness that marks me inside and out. And in the chaos of those thoughts, there is no option to stay.
“You being here is in bad taste,” I say before he has a chance to say anything else. “Don’t do this to me.”
I brush past him then, and with the heat of that brief contact following me in radiating waves, I rush outside to disappear among the Saturday-morning Londoners who are out enjoying the early signs of spring.

MARY’s 5 STAR REVIEW

This book is the one I very much wanted Laurelin to write. We met Camilla in the Slay Series as the sister of Edward Fasbender. We knew she had a young son that Edward was fond of and that he would do anything for both of them. What we did not have was the complete story about her and what made her the way she is. Heaven knows that she was not very accepting of Celia!! Yet would finding out more about her make us warm up to Camilla or would she continue to be stand offish?

We know that Edward and Camilla were both in foster care during their younger years. What we didn’t know was that while they were Camilla was the recipient of abuse. Abuse that left her with scars. Once Edward was able to get custody of her as he reached a legal age to obtain guardianship, he sent her off to boarding school. At boarding school, she continued to abuse herself by cutting. And of course, we know that once she married, she was plagued by an abusive husband both physically and mentally. In spite of this abuse she made it her top priority to shelter her son from any of this. There was never any doubt about her mothering abilities as he was the the most important being in her life. She fiercely protected him and his happiness.When her ex-husband was no longer in the picture it was pretty hard for her to break from the template of feeling damaged and low self-esteem. So she hid herself in her long sleeves and pants. Not worthy of having a man in her life and when she did it was always a one-night stand… in the dark. This is how she protected herself from the demons of her past. That is until a night in Paris with Hendrix Reid. A man who saw her as the woman that she was. Beautiful. Engaging. Smart. Their night together had been one she would never forget, nor would she ever forget Hendrix. But the sad part about it was that she let it slip away but the memory would never be forgotten.

Photography was always something that Camilla loved. So, when she began to teach a class, she found Hendrix Reid on the class roster. Could this possibly be the same one? But why would he want to take her class when he was already a well-established and famous photographer? As she watched the time tick down, she became more and more anxious and hopeful that she had been wrong. But sliding into the classroom at the last-minute leaves every ounce of her being in chaos.

Then began a game of cat and mouse with Hendrix pursuing and Camilla running away. Until that one evening with Camilla’s acquiescence, the night that she wanted it all with Hendrix, a night of unbridled passion with this amazing man. But once again she found herself leaving in the dark of morning before the reality one of her greatest fear of rejection and embarrassment was seen. When what she hid was no longer hidden.

What she failed to realize was that Hendrix could see the real Camilla. Through all the loneliness, the pain, the hardships that her life had endured to this beautiful woman who held him captive. But is Camilla able to put all of her fears aside and open her heart and soul up to this amazing man?

“I want to kiss every place on your body you’ve been hurt. I want to kiss those places so many times that you remember them for that instead of anything before.”

About Laurelin
With millions of books sold worldwide, Laurelin Paige is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author. She is a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however. When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s probably singing, watching Killing Eve, or dreaming of Michael Fassbender. She’s also a proud member of Mensa International though she doesn’t do anything with the organization except use it as material for her bio.

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