Today I am happy to Spotlight Friends Wanting Benefits by Luke Young, a book that releases day!!! Friends Wanting Benefits is the prequel to Friends With Partial Benefits (which is free in ebook today). This is a new author and book series for me. It was a different twist to the whole age ain’t nothing but a number saying, with a lot more flare. In celebrating the release day and blog tour kick-off, the author was so kind to give us a little excerpt from the book. Here is a cool trailer of the first book, Friends with Partial Benefits HERE .
Synopsis
Victoria Wilde and Jillian Grayson meet while aboard a romantic Caribbean cruise with the men in their lives. The two become fast friends despite being in completely different relationships–Victoria, a young widow, is finally moving on with a new and exciting romance. Jillian, on the other hand, is struggling in a long marriage that’s barely hanging on by a thread.
But when Victoria offers Jillian advice on how to get the spark back between the sheets… things don’t exactly go as planned. With a misunderstanding of international significance, all hell breaks loose in paradise. Can Victoria repair the damage that has been done? Will she truly help Jillian save her marriage?
Find out in Friends Wanting Benefits. A prequel series to the Friends With Benefits series
Enjoy this exclusive excerpt from the book:
Victoria Wilde sat in her car less than two miles away, outside a large home in an upscale Miami suburb, staring at her cell phone with her thoughts swirling. Should she drive away, go alone and just call him to say she made a mistake? Was this really the right move for her after everything that happened? The moment she saw Ethan step out the front door to the brightly lit portico, her doubts disappeared. It wasn’t just his striking good looks, or his steely blue eyes, or his trim muscular physique. It was the confidence with which the young man carried himself. Yeah, it was that, along with the unbelievable night the two had spent together in that hotel room just a few days earlier. She shook her head and sighed. If he hadn’t showed up that day in Tampa and rescued her, she didn’t want to think about what might have been. Yes, this was the best thing to happen to her in over a year. And no, she wasn’t going to over analyze it—she was just going to do.
He wore a huge smile as he headed to the car carrying a small suitcase. Slipping into the passenger seat, he closed the door then gave her a deep kiss.
She pulled away first, grinning. “You’re full of energy this morning.”
“Well, I missed you.”
“I missed you too.” She gave him a skeptical look. “Your parents really don’t have a problem with you going with an old… I mean… Older woman?”
“No,” he replied softly.
“Wait…” She scoffed. “You didn’t tell them did you?”
“Well, um, no. I said I was going on a cruise with this girl I was dating from school—that it was a last minute thing.”
“Uh-huh.”
“We did actually meet at school, so that’s mostly the truth.”
“Okay…”
“I also said it was this girl’s graduation present. I think they felt a little guilty since their gift was sorta lame in comparison.”
“What’d they give you?”
“A wallet.”
“A wallet?”
“Yeah, but it had five hundred in cash…” he frowned, “…plus they just paid for my one hundred twenty thousand dollar college education.”
“College is that much now?” Victoria scoffed. “I think you should be happy with the wallet.”
“Yeah, probably.”
“You don’t think they’d approve of me?”
“Maybe. I don’t know.” Looking her over, he flashed her a grin. “My dad certainly would.”
“Maybe I should’ve met them or—”
“I’m twenty-one for God’s sake. I can make my own decisions.”
“Okay.” She nodded. “I’m just glad you could go. I really need to get away from here for a while.”
“I can’t think of a place I wouldn’t go with you.” They shared a smile until he gave her a hesitant look. “So you didn’t finish telling me about Rebecca. Is she still… breathing?”
She put on a deadly serious tone and said, “If shallow breaths count then yes, when I left her she was still breathing.”
“Seriously?”
“I’m joking.” She held back a laugh. “If I learned one thing from watching all those Dateline Mysteries, it’s that you don’t kill when you have a motive.”
He nodded in agreement. “I’m so sorry that I had to be the one to tell you she was sleeping with your husband.”
“Look, it was a long time ago, and he’s not here for me to yell at or… I don’t know.” She exhaled deeply. “Let’s not talk about all that. I just want to have fun for a change. I’ve been depressed for longer than… it’s been over a year since…” She shook her head. “Let’s just change the subject.”
“Okay.”
They shared a tender smile before she asked, “Hey, have you ever been SCUBA diving?”
“A couple times.”
“That’s what I wanted to hear.” She shot him a sexy grin as she put the car in drive.
Reading Series Order
Friends With Benefits Series
Buy Friends Wanting Benefits on Kindle | Buy Friends Wanting Benefits in Paperback
Buy Friends with Partial Benefits on Kindle | Buy Friends with Partial Benefits in Paperback
Buy Friends with Full Benefits on Kindle | Buy Friends with Full Benefits in Paperback
Buy Friends with More Benefits on Kindle | Buy Friends with More Benefits in Paperback
Buy Friends with Extra Benefits on Kindle | Buy Friends with Extra Benefits in Paperback
Buy Friends with Too Many Benefits on Kindle
Just a little about the author: Luke Young is a Kindle-bestselling author of the Friends With Benefits series as well as the novel Shrinkage. Young’s Friends With Benefits novels are filled with passion, longing, comedy, and, yes, sex. His relationship comedies feature strong, sexy female characters — women who seize every opportunity for fun and don’t let a little thing like age stand in the way of love or desire. In each book Young sets different wheels in motion, applying his comedic touch and pitch-perfect ear for playful couples’ banter. The result is warm, funny, sexy storytelling at its best.
