Scandalous, the highly anticipated next standalone in the Sinners of Saint Series by LJ Shen is available NOW!

Scandalous by LJ Shen

Publishing Date: September 29th, 2017

Genre: Contemporary Romance

They call him The Mute for a reason.

Hard, cold and calculated, he rarely speaks.

When he does, it’s with disdain.

When he does, his words aren’t meant for me.

When he does, my stomach flips and my world tilts on its axis.

He is thirty-three.

I am eighteen.

He’s a single dad and my father’s business partner.

I’m just a kid to him and his enemy’s daughter.

He’s emotionally unavailable.

And I am…feeling. Feeling things I shouldn’t feel for him.

Trent Rexroth is going to break my heart. The writing isn’t just on the wall, it’s inked on my soul.

And yet, I can’t stay away.

A scandal is the last thing my family needs. But a scandal is what we’re going to give them.

And oh, what a beautiful chaos it will be.

REVIEW BY KRISTI LYNN

This is book four in Sinners of Saint series and is Trent’s story. Trent Rexroth is known as “the Mute”. He doesn’t speak often but when he does it is with contempt. He is different than the other “hot holes”. Edie Van Der Zee is only 18 and is Trent’s business partners daughter. This has trouble written all over it!

First I will start out with the cover of this book! I wanted to one click and read it based on that alone. Straight fire!!! To prepare for reading this book, I did a binge read of the first three books and was salivating to dive into Trent’s story. I was late to the party with this series but am thrilled to be all caught up. My love for these “Hot Holes” is fiercely strong. There was something mysterious and captivating about Trent throughout the other stories so I could not wait to read his story and learn more about this sex as sin man and what makes him tick.

This book gripped me from the beginning. It was forbidden, illicit and so very scandalous. This book got me like WOAH! I would like to stand and give a very deliberate and slow clap to LJ Shen for her magical words and storytelling. I have always been one to love the bad boy in books. I swoon and fall hard for the guys I should never but so many mesmerize me and win my heart. Trent did that in spades. He was an AH like the other “Hot Holes” but for him is seemed justified based on all he had experienced in life. His arrogance, cockiness and overall disdain for others made me swoon, pant, and devour all the words. Throw in that he was a single dad and boom….ovaries explode all over. LJ made me fall in love with him and rather quickly. I was so invested in him getting some happy in his life.

Edie was an easy female lead to route for and hope that she got some sort of HEA. Her life had not been easy and there were times my heart wept for the treatment she received from the man who was supposed to protect, nurture and care for her – her father. Despite all she had been through, she was sassy as heck, strong, determined, and had gumption.

Kudos to LJ on this one! With this series she has become an author I will always one click. She is a brilliant writer and can suck you into a story like no other. I give this book five well deserved stars!!!

Excerpt:

Trent’s gaze cut to mine and stopped when his grays met my blues. The fading noise of Vicious barking at people to move along, and my father finally letting go of my arm to move toward Jaime and Dean—probably trying to gain both allies and sympathy—died down. “I don’t like you,” Rexroth whispered under his breath, his voice harsh. “I never asked you to.” I shrugged. “You won’t be working here.” His arm brushed my shoulder, but I didn’t think it was by accident. I let loose a sugary smile, scanning his face and torso for no other reason other than to taunt him. “Good, you’ll be doing me a favor. My father is the one forcing me to work here. He’s pissed I turned down five Ivy League colleges. Remind me, Mr. Rexroth—which top tier university did you attend for your degree?” The low blow was supposed to retrieve some of my lost dignity, but bile burned my throat, shotgunned from my stomach. Trent Rexroth was known in Todos Santos as an exhilarating success story, rising from the gutters of San Diego. He went to a shitty state college that accepted even the illiterate, working as a janitor on campus after hours. Those were given facts he’d recited himself in an interview for Forbes. Had I really just tried to make him feel less worthy because he wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth? It made me sicker than wearing my mother’s designer garbs. Trent smiled, leaning into my body, into my soul. His smirk was more frightening than any scowl, frown, or grimace I’d ever seen. It threatened to tear me apart and sew me back together however he pleased. “Edie.” His lips were dangerously close to my ear. A delicious shiver moved down my spine. Something warm rolled inside of me, begging to unknot and flower into an orgasm. What was happening, and why the hell was it happening? “If you know what’s best for you, you will turn around and leave right now.” I elevated my head to meet his gaze and showed him my version of a grin. I was born and raised in a world of intimidating rich men, and I’d be damned if I go down like my mother—addicted to xanax, Gucci, and a man who paraded her on his arm for a short, glorious decade before keeping her solely for public appearances. “I think I’m going to go find my desk now. I’d wish you a good day, Mr. Rexroth, but I think that ship has sailed. You’re a miserable man. Oh, and one for the road.” I fished for a Nature Valley bar in my mother’s purse and plastered it to his hard, muscled chest. My heart slammed into my neck, fluttering like a caged bird. I hurried after my father as he glided down the vast, golden-hued hallway, not daring to look back. Knowing I’d started a war and arrived unequipped. But I also knew something else that gave me a surfer’s rush—if I could slam the final nail in my employment coffin and make Rexroth vote against me, I’d be off the hook. I had just the plan for it. All I had to do was act like a brat. Game on.

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About LJ Shen:

L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat. Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards. She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed. LJSHEN