One Hour
Girl, The Lost Series Book #1
Genre: Comtemporary Romance
From International
Bestselling Author, LeTeisha Newton, February 29th, 2016!
Celeste Askew isn’t perfect. Not by far. Her childhood was dark
and destructive, her family torn apart by greed and secrets.
So she learned to cope.
During her days she’s a paralegal in a prestigious firm.
But by night, she’s an escort, addicted to dangerous situations, rough sex, and
money. This is what she knows, what she craves, and what keeps her stable.
Ms. Perfection is kept happy because Ms. Whore keeps the
darkness at bay.
Until she meets Royce Mattherson, L.A.’s most eligible bachelor,
and billionaire. No that his life was much better. His past was just as dark,
just as twisted, and they find that they can give each other those dirty
moments. Love wasn’t supposed to be a part of it.
It never was.
Her heart is off limits, and he doesn’t have one to give. The
found a way to break the rules anyway.
He thinks I’m his forever
girl, I saw it in his eyes. I wished I could have slapped the look off his face
and hit him with the same jarring finality I’d learned I didn’t mean shit.
I’m not a forever sort of
girl.
I’m not even his for the
night.
He’ll be lucky if I’m his
for the next hour if he doesn’t pay me for it.
And then Royce Mattherson
stormed my defenses. Took all the poison inside of me and pushed it out through
my pores. He tasted the taint on my skin and still decided to love me. He
terrifies me. Exhilarates me. Frustrates me.
And he always gets what he
wants.
Always...
Royce, thought we'd ask you some questions to talk about
yourself so everyone gets to know you. Is that okay?
I can't exactly say no, can I?
Be nice Royce, it's going to be good.
I am nice, love. Just ask Celeste.
*cough* Yes, well, shall we begin? What's your greatest fear?
Greatest fear? If you ask my enemies, nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Ask Celeste, she'd say losing her. And she's mostly right. Because losing her
means I've failed, and that is something I can't do. I just cant. I failed once
before, as a child. I...well I can't go into that now. But, I will forever
regret not standing up when I could have. I will never fail Celeste, so I will
never lose her.
How was it to see your love story in a book?
Odd, to say the least. I'm not one for having everyone in my
business. But to see what we went through, the things Celeste had in her
mind...it makes me love her more. She thought she never had a chance, and I
wasn't willing to let her go on believing that. It's because of the things she
went through that she was PERFECT for me. We are perfectly imperfect together,
and that's okay. I'm fine with people seeing that.
What is you motto?
Never lose. That simple. Any more questions?
Does Celeste know you are treating me like this?
No, and if you tell her, or do anything to upset her, you know
exactly how I can be. How about we leave it at that, hmm?
*eyeroll* You and I both know you're a softy, Mr. Alpha Male.
How about one last question? What, or who, is your greatest treasure?
Easy question, but one that I can't answer fully. You'd have to read
the book to find out why, but we will say Celeste is half of it. And I'm
feeling in the mood to show her just how much right now.
What drove you to create One Hour Girl?
Because it was time. I think that One Hour Girl, for me, is a piece
I created to speak to so many women out there that are victims of domestic or
child abuse and how they survived it. It doesn't have t be a public badge
anyone wears, but it can fiddle with everyday life, the way you look at
yourself, and how you deal with others. Celeste was a woman who used negative
coping mechanisms to get through her past and it took an equally messed up man
to help her. But he wasn't all about making himself her source of happiness. He
wanted her to love herself and see herself the same way he did, and that helped
her heal. Isn't that how life is? How love should be?
What is the Lost Series?
The point of the Lost Series was to create a series of stand-alone
books that could be read completely separate, with no overlap, and no
cliffhangers. They are tied by a common theme of lost souls, real people,
finding love they way they have to. One Hour Girl is a gritty contemporary
romance, and the flagship book. Scarred, Book 2, is more a dark romance with
BDSM elements. Phenomenal, Book 2.5 is a MMA Fighter romance about an underdog
fighter who has lost everything struggling to get to the top again, and the
woman who is willing to help him get there. Each of the books, and the ensuing
ones to come, wil satisfy different readers, and that's what I was going
for.
Totally get that. So how did you pick your hero and heroine?
I'm one of those authors that know my characters faces long before I
write their stories. They are real to me. I know them, and I live them. Royce
was drool worthy and I needed to give him an equally beautiful heroine. Because
of the world they live in,their looks mattered quite a bit. Celeste moonlights
as a high-dollar escort. Royce is L.A.'s most eligible bachelor. That contrasts
with darker, rougher Ethan and River of Scarred, Book 2. They are equally
scarred physically and mentally. Their look is much different. My characters
look like their worlds.
So you already have the other books in the works?!
Oh yeah! Don't want to leave my readers in a lurch LOL! One Hour
Girl is out in February 2016, Scarred in May of 2016, and Phenomenal will be in
a NOLA Boxed set with 8 other AMAZING authors, so we will keep that a bit under
wraps, in August 2016!
Add the book to your TBR
Pile on Goodreads HERE!
Writing professionally since 2008, LeTeisha has spanned from
Fantasy to Interracial Romance on her road to getting the jumping characters
out of her head. Most days she’s pretty color blind, unless it’s a great shade
of red (then she can’t ignore it). Other times she’s plotting her next twenty
books and then remembering that the computer can’t read her thoughts and
doesn’t type at lightning speed. Either way, she just can’t seem to get enough
of quill to paper…or eh…keyboard strokes, apparently.
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