I LOVE The Beauty Series by Georgia Cates. Get the trilogy now!
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The New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Best-selling Beauty Series is now available in a single volume.
BEAUTY FROM PAIN: Aussie winemaker Jack McLachlan and American musician Laurelyn Prescott agree to a three month relationship while keeping their true identities secret.
BEAUTY FROM SURRENDER: A heartbroken Laurelyn Prescott returns to Nashville to pursue her music career and finds the success she’s always dreamed of. Jack Henry McLachlan spends three months searching for his beloved but their reunion doesn’t come easy. Will she be able to see beyond the glitz glamour and visualize a life that includes him?
BEAUTY FROM LOVE: Life for Jack Henry and Laurelyn is beautiful until their post-wedded bliss is cut short when his dark past springs into their present happiness. He wants to shelter Laurelyn but keeping her untainted by his previous life proves impossible when yesterday’s sins insist on returning to haunt him. Will it be possible for them to find happiness in their forever with a past like his?
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Georgia resides in rural Mississippi with her wonderful husband, Jeff, and their two beautiful daughters. She spent fourteen years as a labor and delivery nurse before she decided to pursue her dream of becoming an author and hasn’t looked back yet.
When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about writing. When she’s being domestic, she’s listening to her iPod and visualizing scenes for her current work in progress. Every story coming from her always has a song to inspire it.
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Beauty
from Pain Excerpt -Jack McLachlan’s POV
I
sit in the dark corner and scan the room like a starved predator searching for
prey. I haven’t chosen her yet, but the woman who will share my bed for the
next few months is in this room right now.
I watch a lovely blond approach
my table. “What can I bring you?” Hmm. A waitress—not at all my usual taste.
I have a type. Attractive.
Mature. Refined. This barmaid meets the attractive requirement well enough, but
she’s void of refinement or maturity as displayed by her choice of apparel—a
white, barely there tank top and frazzled cutoff denim shorts. She doesn’t do
it for me. Plus, my last two companions were blond. I want a different flavor
this time, but no redheads. I want a brunette. A beautiful one.
I remind myself I’m not in Sydney
where I have an endless variety of sophisticated women from which to choose. My
choices are more limited in the small town of Wagga Wagga, but that doesn’t
mean I have to settle for the first attractive woman I see.
“I’ll have a Shiraz.”
I’m prepared for a more prolonged
relationship this time—three whole months instead of the usual three or four
weeks. I’m looking forward to keeping this one around a little longer, and
that’s all the more reason to be certain I make a wise choice.
I begin my search of the club
with the first table toward the front of the room. A brunette beauty sits with
a group of women. I watch her for a while, but decide she’s too friendly with
the woman sitting next to her. Lesbians aren’t in my repertoire.
I spend the next hour scanning
the club and come up empty-handed. I’m discouraged. No one stands out as the one and this club is by far my best
bet for meeting single women in this town. Maybe I should consider coming back
another time when it’s not open mic night. Tonight, the place is crawling with
boozed college students.
Tonight’s search has been
a failure, but at least the karaoke was entertaining.
I’m finishing off the last of my
wine before I leave when an announcer from the club takes the stage and asks
for the next singer to step forward. A small group of people across the room
nominates one of its own. My view of the poor bastard is blocked by the crowd
of intoxicated kids standing between us, but I’m certain this is going to be
another delightful train wreck.
The club erupts into cheer and
chants. “Do. It. Do. It. Do. It.” A young woman walks onto the stage and stands
with her back to the crowd as she lifts a guitar from its stand. She lifts its
strap over her head and then tosses her long brown hair over one shoulder. When
she’s finished settling the guitar into place, she circles around and sits on
the stool in the middle of the stage.
She’s beautiful. And somehow
overlooked during my search.
She’s wearing a short ivory dress
and a denim jacket with brown cowgirl boots. She bares her thighs as she lifts
her feet to rest on the bottom rail, but she’s careful to push her dress
between her legs so she doesn’t provide a peep show to the crowd.
She strums the borrowed guitar a
few times and then leans into the microphone. “Is everyone having a good time
tonight?”
She’s American. I think. Her
accent sounds different—not like what I’ve heard in the past.
The crowd erupts into a drunken
cheer and I hear a man’s voice yell over the crowd, “It’s better now, sweet
thing!”
She smiles and adjusts the mic.
“I’m not from around here. It’s my first night in Australia.”
“Leave with me and I’ll make you
feel right at home!” a man shouts from the back of the room.
She ignores the fat, ugly bastard
yelling at her. “I don’t know what kind of music Australians like, but this has
been one of my favorites for as long as I can remember.” She strums a few more
chords. “This is ‘Crash Into Me’ by the Dave Matthews Band.”
She sings it slower than the
original, putting her own twist on it. Her voice is raspy and sexy, her eyes
closed. She oozes eroticism. She tilts her head and opens her eyes when she
begins to sing the chorus. I swear it feels like she’s looking right in my
direction, singing to me. “Oh, and you come craasshh … into me. And I come into
… you … And I come into you … in a boy’s dream … in a boy’s dream.”
The stage lights shine in her
face and common sense tells me she can’t see me sitting in the dark corner at
the back of the club, but that doesn’t stop me from hoping.
She finishes the chorus and shuts
her eyes again. Her long legs bounce against the rail of the stool to keep
rhythm and I fall victim to her siren’s song. She has bewitched me. And I want
her. She’s
the one.
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