Christina Laurenis the combined pen name of long-time writing partners/besties/soul mates and brain-twins, Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, New York Times, USA Today, and #1 international bestselling authors of the Beautiful Bastard series. Some of their books have kissing. Some of their books have ALOTofkissing. You can find them online at ChristinaLaurenBooks.com, or at @seeCwrite and @LolaShoes on Twitter.

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Books by CHRISTINA LAUREN

THE WILD SEASONS SERIES

Sweet Filthy Boy

THE BEAUTIFUL BASTARD SERIES

Beautiful Bastard

Beautiful Stranger

Beautiful Bitch

Beautiful Bombshell

Beautiful Player

Beautiful Beginning

The Wild Seasons series continues in September 2015 with Dark Wild Night

But first, a return to the Beautiful series with

Beautiful Beloved (e-short)

February 2015

and

Beautiful Secret

April 2015

Featuring all the characters from Beautiful Bastard, Beautiful Stranger, and Beautiful Player...

and one from Wild Seasons

Copyright

Gallery Books

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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 © 2014 by Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings

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First Gallery Books trade paperback edition November 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file.

ISBN 978-1-4767-7796-2

ISBN 978-1-4767-7797-9 (ebook)

Contents

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Acknowledgments

About the Author