Brutal Arrangement (Brutal Billionaires 3) by Laurelin Paige

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date March 13, 2024

He can have any woman he wants.
He wants his brother’s.

Alex Sebastian is the billionaire who knows exactly how to re-launch the pop career I walked away from to raise my little sister.

He knows everything, apparently, about what’s good for me. For my image. Even for my lingerie. Everywhere I turn, he’s there, smirking. I cannot stand him.

So why can’t we stop sneaking around?

Maybe it’s his filthy, bossy mouth that does things more wicked than his insults.

Maybe it’s that he does know what’s good for me when he uses it—backstage before my show, during a black tie event, in another man’s living room.

Because maybe deep down, I’ve never been the good girl the world sees, and the dirty, shameful things he makes me do are exactly what I crave.

The problem? Alex isn’t the Sebastian billionaire I’m dating––I’m dating his brother.

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REVIEW:BRUTAL ARRANGEMENT is the third instalment in Laurelin Paige’s contemporary, adult BRUTAL BILLIONAIRES erotic, romance series focusing on the Sebastian family. This is billionaire businessman Alex Sebastian, and singer Mariah ‘Riah’ Zyah’ Watson’s story line. BRUTAL ARRANGEMENT can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. The BRUTAL BILLIONAIRES series is a spin off from the author’s Man in Charge duet.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Alex and Riah) BRUTAL ARRANGEMENT follows the rebuilding music career of Mariah ‘Riah’ ‘Zyan’ Watson. Years earlier, following the death of her parents, pop star ‘Zyah’ stepped back from the spotlight in an effort to look after her younger sister. Now that Whitney is almost eighteen years old, Mariah Watson wants to restart her career but behind the scenes her personal life is spiralling out of control. In a ‘relationship’ with a man who is controlling her career, Riah struggles with her attraction to her partner’s brother, the man who stirs something erotic and dark. Enter Alex Sebastian, Riah’s new ‘brand manager’, and the man with whom our heroine will fall in love. As the pop star Zyah, Riah’s career is once again taking center stage but her love life is about to create a scandal from which she may not return. What ensues is the building but forbidden relationship between Riah and Alex, and the potential fall-out when the truth is revealed.

The world building focuses on Riah’s personal life, and the heart that wants something more. In a relationship with Alex’s brother Hunter, Riah’s has always been on the outside looking in, hiding the real Hunter behind a relationship in which she is no longer in control. Both Alex and Hunter are arrogant and brooding but each wants something different from our story line heroine. Falling for Alex means protecting her heart and her career, a heart that will be broken when the truth is revealed.

The relationship between Alex and Riah is a forbidden love affair. Riah is nothing more than window dressing for Hunter Sebastian, a man whose reputation is questionable at best. Lied to and cheated on, Riah is hoping for someone to love but when her career is at stake, she finds herself walking a path from which she may never come back. The $ex scenes are intimate and provocative.

There is a large ensemble cast of dynamic secondary and supporting characters including Alex’s brothers, cousins, father and grandfather. We are introduced to Mariah’s sister Whitney, and several cast and crew involved in the restart of ‘Zyah’ career.

BRUTAL ARRANGEMENT is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and heart break, power and control, family and friendships, acceptance and love. The premise is dramatic and heart breaking ; the characters are animated and stubborn; the romance is seductive and intense.

READING ORDER AND PREVIOUS REVIEWS
Brutal Billionaire
Brutal Secret

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Reviewed by Sandy

With millions of books sold worldwide, Laurelin Paige is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author. She is a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however.  

When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s probably singing, watching Killing Eve or Letterkenny, or dreaming of Michael Fassbender. She’s also a proud member of Mensa International though she doesn’t do anything with the organization except use it as material for her bio.

She is represented by Rebecca Friedman. 

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