Every Second With You = Sex. Love. Addiction. Heartache. Pain. And Hope.

In the sequel to the bestselling new adult romance THE THRILL OF IT, Harley and Trey face new challenges that will make battling blackmail, sex addiction, and a virgin call girl past look easy…

I used to think love was a lie. Now I know it’s real, powerful, and I don’t want to lose it…But my future scares me, and there’s no way this can be happening, especially since I’ve finally broken free from all the people who wanted pieces of me. I don’t even know how to start over, but I have to find a way. So when I discover what my mother’s been keeping from me, it doesn’t make me hate her. It gives me hope for a new life, outside of New York. But the ties that bind me to this city are so strong, sometimes they are chains. If only I could leave with…

Trey…

I will do anything for her. She owns me, heart, mind and body. But when Harley tells me this, I am rocked to the core, and terrified of what happens next. Especially when now it’s not her past that chases me, it’s someone from my own. And that someone is messing with my head when I’m trying to be strong for Harley. But all I really want is to escape with the girl I love…For the rest of our lives.

How can you move forward when the past keeps chasing you?

Excerpt

The first words on the card are like a headline, in big, thick letters: The Stories We Promised to Tell You.

Then, under them:

And the city girl returned to the sand, and the sea, where the sun warmed her shoulders and the sky rained silver and gold sparkles . . .

And that’s all. It’s signed Nan and Pop.

I read the words again on the muggy subway platform, waiting for the downtown train. I read it on the subway car as it slaloms through underground New York, its lights flickering once around a bend, blasting us with darkness for a few seconds. I read it once more as I walk the few blocks to my apartment, weaving in and out of the early evening crowds who are returning home from work, their earbuds or their phones keeping them company.

The card is odd, too, on some sort of vintage letterpress paper, with a raised drawing of a red aardvark in the sand. Something you don’t find in the Hallmark section of Duane Reade, that’s for sure.

But the more I repeat the words, the less I understand them. They feel like a code, and I don’t have the key to decipher this strange sort of story from my grandparents, made stranger because I thought I was persona non grata to them.

I don’t know where they live, or if they’re still in San Diego. I don’t even have the same last name as my dad’s parents. When my parents split, my mom returned to her maiden name, and changed my name, too. A neat, clean break, severing me from his side of the family.

The two of us against the world.

Now, I am untethered from her

5 Hearts

A breathtakingly beautiful end to a heart-wrenching and passionate love story.

Every Second With You is the sequel to Lauren’s insanely sexy and emotional novel The Thrill Of It.  The story begins where The Thrill Of It left off with Harley finding out she is pregnant.  This is a pivotal moment for Trey and Harley that tests their love for one another.  They are both sex addicts and at this moment you find out if they are truly in love or just addicted to one another.

“I want to cry, I want to sob, I want to hold him close and never let him go.  I am in heaven with him, and I have one foot in the hell of my own fear, so I need to lose myself in sex, in love, in connection.”

Harley battles her inner demons before she has enough courage to let Trey in on her little secret.  She is afraid Trey will run because of his brothers.

“She fucking owns me, and I want her to stake her claim to me always.  Harley is my whole fucking heart, and then some.”

After Harley drops the pregnancy bomb, Trey puts on a mask and begins to fake it.  He tries to pretend that everything is fine when he is really freaking out.  He begins to distance his heart from Harley because he is afraid of losing the baby like he did his brothers.

While Trey is battling his inner demons, Harley is dealing with her mother Barb and the secrets that Barb has been keeping from her.  She is upset and angry because all these years she thought that Barb was all she had, but that was not the truth.  When she reaches out to Trey he screws up royally and Harley asks him to leave.

“I stand glancing one more time at her window.  The pangs of being near her but not near enough stab like little knives.”

Because you can’t breakup and makeup sex.  There is of course some insanely sexy panting melting make up sex.

“I know this won’t take long, and I love when she loses control like this, because I’m the only one she’s ever been like for this.  Ever, ever ever.”

Trey and Harley really grow up as the learn that neither one of them are defined by their past and now whats most important is their future.  They have several stumbling blocks on the way to their happily ever after and that keeps you turning the pages.  Lauren had me holding my breath and crying my eyes out.  Most of all Lauren gave me Hope.  Hope that true love really exists, and can conquer all things including addiction.  I am so excited to see what Lauren has in store for us next.  She is amazingly talented and has me lusting after all of her Blakely Boys.

Every Second With You is heartwarming, passionate, and sexy. I loved every second of this sinfully seductive adventure.

Lauren Blakely writes sexy contemporary romance novels with heat, heart, and humor, and her books have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iBooks bestseller lists. Like the heroine in FAR TOO TEMPTING, she thinks life should be filled with family, laughter, and the kind of love that love songs promise. Lauren lives in California with her husband, children, and dogs. Her novels include Caught Up In Us, Pretending He’s Mine, Playing With Her Heart, and Trophy Husband. She also writes for young adults under the name Daisy Whitney.

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This is a scavenger hunt for EVERY SECOND WITH YOU by Lauren Blakely. To play – all you have to do is track to down blogs where Every Second With You is featured during release week, and you can be entered to win a Kindle Fire.

You can find the key to the treasure on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/LaurenBlakelyBooksand the key is a pinned post with a list of the blogs featuring the book.

Step 1: Visit those blogs and search for Every Second With You on them (you can go to the blog’s web site or the blog’s facebook page)

Step 2: Copy the link of each place you find EVERY SECOND WITH YOU featured on a blog and share it on your facebook page. Then, paste the links where you found the post and where your shared it in this form. (Keep a copy of the URL to this form so you can update it throughout the week.) Please number your entries. You get 1 entry for sharing the link where you found it and 1 entry for sharing it on your facebook page.

Step 3: Leave a message on the blog where you found my book featured for an additional entry.

The person who submits the most verified links/entries by Monday, 2/17/14 at 9 am US Eastern time (which means that you went and you posted on that blog, and shared the links on your facebook page) will win a Kindle Fire HD (or for international participants…the egift card equivalent in US dollars).

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Easy peasy!

Winner will be announced on Monday, February 17, 2014 at 9 pm US Eastern time

If more than one person has the same number of verified links a winner will be chosen randomly from those top contributors.