This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 by Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings

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First Gallery Books trade paperback edition November 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lauren, Christina.
Beautiful beginning / Christina Lauren. -- First Gallery Books Trade paperback edition.
pages cm.
(Beautiful Bastard series) I. Title.
PS3612.A9442273B44 2013
813'.6—dc23 2013034995

ISBN 978-1-4767-5510-6 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-1-4767-5174-0 (ebook)

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Acknowledgments

Sweet Filthy Boy Excerpt

About Christina Lauren