LUCKY LIAR (Lucky Alphas #1) by Mallory Crowe-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 7,2018

This lie will come back to bite her…

Wade Maxium is a lot of things. Ruthless. Billionaire. Business man extraordinaire. Murderer?

When Zoe Young finds proof of his nefarious past, she attempts to blackmail him in a last ditch effort to pick up the pieces of her broken life. But Wade offers her a lot more money than she could’ve ever imagined in exchange for one simple little favor.

Marry him.

Could his crazy proposal be the stroke of luck she’s been dreaming about? Or is this notorious liar luring her into his trap?

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REVIEW: LUCKY LIAR is the first instalment in Mallory Crowe’s contemporary, adult LUCKY ALPHAS erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on a group of former friends from Birdsville, Ohio. This is thirty-one year old, billionaire businessman Wade Maxium, and twenty-six year old, waitress Zoe Young’s story line.

Told from dual third person perspective (Wade and Zoe) LUCKY LIAR follows the marriage of convenience between thirty-one year old, billionaire businessman Wade Maxium, and twenty-six year old, waitress Zoe Young. Zoe Young needed a quick influx of cash, and blackmailing billionaire and former Birdsville, Ohio alumni Wade Maxium was the perfect foil for her misplaced plan, a plan that went south with Wade’s offer of marriage and more. What ensues is the marriage of convenience between Wade and Zoe, and the potential fall-out as demons from the past demand payment for what happened years before.

Zoe Young accidentally discovered a secret about Wade Maxium’s past, a secret that could destroy his life but a secret known only to a few. Zoe, desperate for money to help pay for her mother’s continuing cancer therapy, soon discovers that blackmailing a billionaire isn’t as easy as set out to be. Wade Maxium’s sins have finally caught up with our story line hero, sins that involve several former friends whose actions, years before, have come back to haunt. Exposure would mean ruin, blackmail continues to be an on-going theme for the group known as the Lucky Lions.

The relationship between Zoe and Wade begins as a business arrangement following the wedding that never was. To avoid public humiliation after being left at the altar by an international model and star, Wade offers Zoe a deal she cannot refuse, a deal that would see her mother’s bills covered, and a two year contractual marriage to the man with whom she would fall in love. The $ex scenes are intimate and seductive but I struggled to feel any palpable sexual attraction between our leading couple due in part to Wade’s verbal treatment of our story line heroine.

We are introduced to Wade’s former friends and the group known as the Lucky Lions: headhunter Harper Jones, singer Shane Collar, and businessman Leo West: Wade’s sister Sarah Maxium; and Zoe’s younger brother DJ , and their mother Diane Young. The requisite evil has many faces including Wade’s ex-fiance supermodel Tara.

LUCKY LIAR is a cautionary tale of betrayal and revenge when past sins resurface without warning. The premise is riveting; the romance is passionate; the characters are wounded, sassy and spirited. LUCKY LIAR does not end on a cliff-hanger but keeps open the prospect of continuing threats for the remaining Lucky Lions.

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Reviewed by Sandy