Midnight Blue, an all-new sexy standalone from LJ Shen is available NOW!
Midnight Blue
Author: LJ Shen
Release Date: January 18th
It should have been easy.
I needed the money. He needed a babysitter to keep him from snorting himself to death.
I was cherry-picked especially for him. Responsible. Optimistic. Warm. Innocent.
The worst part is that I should have known better.
Alex Winslow. British rock star. Serial heartbreaker. Casanova with whiskey eyes.
“Don’t get near the devil in a leather jacket. He’ll chew you up and spit you out.”
Sounds familiar? That’s because it was a headline in a tabloid the second time he got arrested.
Guess what? I didn’t listen.
I signed the contract.
World tour. Three months. Four Continents. One hundred shows.
My name is Indigo Bellamy, and I sold my soul to a tattooed god.
Problem was, my soul wasn’t enough for Alex Winslow. He ended up taking my body, too.
Then he took my heart.
Then he took my all.
Midnight Blue is the first book I have read by L.J. I truly do live under a rock because I just recently learned of her and all these amazing books she writes. I am not blaming myself for not knowing who she – I am blaming my fellow book nerds for not mentioning her to me before now. RUDE PEOPLE!! LOL
When I heard that Midnight Blue was a rockstar romance, I didn’t hesitate. They are my weakness and I love these books. Music and books are my two must-haves in life so when they come together, it’s euphoric to me. LOL Midnight Blue lived up to its hype for me.
“He scarred me. I decorated him. But at the end of the day, we were both tainted by each other.”
Alex is a true rockstar asshole. He wasn’t born that way, he just slowly started blaming everyone around him for his problems. I can’t even say they were problems, they were just problems to him because he was doing what everyone else wanted and expected. He drowned himself in those problems with drugs and alcohol which eventually landed him in rehab. His manager and PR are now gearing up for his world tour to jumpstart his career again. Alex is wild card so they hire him a nanny; they actually hired quite a few, but none ever stayed for more than 3 days because Alex is a bonafide, grade A asshole. Til Indie.
Indie is quite the unique character. She’s an introvert with her own style. But she’s now in a situation where she needs money and lots of it. Pronto. She lives with her brother and his family and life has been giving them nothing but lemons lately. But Indie is determined to change that. So she signs the contract of a lifetime knowing it will change everything for them.
Alex and Indie are highly charged fuses. Indie pushes Alex in ways he’s not used to. She doesn’t back down to him and refuses to be a doormat to his ego. Alex is too full of himself to see how much of an asshole he is so he continues to bate and push Indie. But he does eventually wear her down, something she herself struggles with. They are two wounded people who struggle to recover from their mangled and wrecked hearts.
“Alex Winslow was a broken vase. But I wasn’t the glue. I was the stupid cleaner who was about to try to pick up the pieces, and inevitably, get cut.”
I truly felt so much with this story. Shen writes extremely captivating characters with an invigorating story. I have so many quotes and highlights on my kindle, I don’t even know where to start. This book had me so wrapped up in these characters, I never wanted it to end. And there is so much more to this book than just rockstar and his “hanny” (hot nanny as Alex dubbed her). You just have to read to find out for yourself.
Alex and Indie create quite the storm of emotions between one another. They hate each other, yet crave one another so desperately. They are a disaster of epic proportions waiting to explode. The angst in this book is almost unbearable. It is heavy with emotions but damn worth it all.
Midnight Blue is not a sweet romance. It’s not the perfect love story either. It’s the story of fighting for the love you thought you’d never find. Midnight Blue is scarred and beautiful.
“Two souls collided on a took dark floor in a graveyard for the stars.
Funny, when you walked into my life I thought I’d be the one leaving all the scars.”
Excerpt:
Nat’s words came back and haunted me like a bad haircut from the eighties. An irrational need to check the goods took over me. It wasn’t like he minded. According to the rumors, his dick had seen more cameras than Kendall Jenner. Slowly—so painfully slowly—my eyes drifted down his sinewy body. I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Whatever I had in mind, though, didn’t come close to the real thing. Thick, long but not atrocious. With thin veins running through its length.
“Nice view?” he groaned, tucking his junk back into his briefs. His profile was glorious. Strong jaw, pouty lips, eyes like sex…
My eyes snapped up when I realized he was talking to me. “I wasn’t…”
“Looking? Yes, you were. Next time take a picture. It lasts longer.” He rolled his zipper upward and flushed the toilet with the toe of his boot. He turned around and squirted soap into his palm, washing his hands almost violently—rubbing between each finger and scratching his knuckles like he wanted to shed his own skin. When he was done, he looked around for a towel.
I cleared my throat, scrambling to regain my wits. “Longer than the glimpse or longer than your performance?”
Casually—so unbearably casually—he wiped his wet hands over my purple dress. I gasped, moving sideways. It looked like he was about to open the door and get out, but before I had the chance to yell at him for using me as a human towel, he slammed me against the wall, bracing both his arms above my head and pinning me to my spot. I let out a shriek of surprise at the sudden proximity.
Alex Winslow is touching me. Willingly, my surprisingly pitiful brain squealed.
Heat rolled off his body, making my back arch and my breath catch in my throat.
“Let’s make one thing clear—I could fuck you to a point of numbness without even breaking a sweat if I wanted to. Now, careful, New Girl. If you don’t keep your distance from me, I think I just might.”
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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.
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