LAUREN SMITH SERIES:

Fit to Be Stapled

Fit to Be Stapled

Lauren Smith

Romance

He's the CEO and she's off limits... Spencer Howe can't let anyone know what's going on in his head, especially when he daydreams about bending his junior ad account manager over her desk and showing her what her sass does to him. Cate Cross isn't just sassy though, she's beautiful, brilliant and perfect for the senior account manager position at his advertising firm. He knows he gets under her skin when he calls her his assistant. He does it to get a rise out of her, and she throws it right back at him. There is so much chemistry between them, but he knows it won't work. She can't stand him most of the time. If he doesn't get her to accept his company's promotion soon, he's afraid another company will take her away from him when she finishes her MBA. He'll do anything to show her that she's his, in the office and out, even if that means breaking a desk or two to prove his point. Note: This is a short story with...
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The Krinar Eclipse: A Krinar World Novel

The Krinar Eclipse: A Krinar World Novel

Lauren Smith

Romance

Bianca Wells, the President’s daughter, experiences a close encounter with the aliens who invaded Earth five years ago. The Krinar are powerful, attractive, but also mysterious. There is one in particular she can’t get out of her head—the seductive Krinar Ambassador named Soren. With his hauntingly beautiful eyes and god-like body, he invades her dreams, spinning sensual encounters that leave her aching and breathless. But he, like the others of his kind, is dangerous. With impossible speed and strength, wielding incredible intelligence and advanced technology, the Krinar control this planet and every human on it. Bianca should want nothing to do with Soren. A single touch from him might cause an interstellar war. But after one scorching, forbidden kiss, she’ll risk everything to be with him. Soren came to Earth to ensure the survival of his people, but now he has one desire: to possess the brave and irresistible Bianca. Knowing he could destroy peaceful relations with the humans if anyone sees him with her, he takes matters into his own hands, rescuing her from an assassin. After one “big-bang” of a kiss, he knows he can’t let her go home. She belongs to him, and he will break every rule in his carefully controlled world to keep her. After their forbidden night of passion, Bianca enters Soren’s dark, seductive world. But her new life as Soren’s woman puts a target on her back, and her status as First Daughter only makes things worse. As enemies surface all around them, Bianca realizes she will have to trust Soren with her heart, even if it means giving up her freedom. **
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Waltzing in the Snow

Waltzing in the Snow

Lauren Smith

Romance

As one of London's biggest heartbreakers, Derrick, Viscount Seabright, has all the freedom in the world to choose any woman he wishes to marry...someday ...when he actually wishes to marry. But for now he's content to seduce anyone at his leisure...anyone that is except for Arianna Asgil. Derrick has spent years trying not to admit his best friend's little sister has grown up into a beauty...an infuriating one. He's a damned saint for resisting the urge to silence her during an argument with a kiss, especially when she's flushed and furious at him, deservedly so, for interfering with her love life. But the woman needed rescuing, so he played the hero. In return, she demands he help her fix the situation by teaching her the art of seduction to win her a husband. Now he has to survive the Christmas holidays without her family knowing that he's agreed to help teach her to be irresistible to men. There's just one problem...he's having a hard time...
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Snowflakes and Wallflowers

Snowflakes and Wallflowers

Lauren Smith

Romance

Matilda starts a war with a brooding Lord Castleton when she throws a snowball at his head...Becoming the Earl of Castleton wasn't something Arthur Brynnwood wanted. But after he learned of his great-uncle's passing, the responsibility of running such a vast estate was thrust on Arthur's shoulders. When he arrives at the estate and sees the mismanagement of the properties he loses his temper and raises the rent on the tenants of a small cottage on his land.Feisty Matilda Matthews comes to him the next day, pleading for leniency for herself and her ailing aunt who live in the cottage for free. Too used to the wiles of women, Arthur remains unmoved by her words and won't reconsider.The next thing he knows, he's choking on a snowball thrown at his face and Matilda is marching away, back straight and head held proudly high. Once again, his temper explodes. He grabs her and wrestles the shrieking, kicking woman to a bedchamber and locks her in until he...
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Never Kiss a Scot

Never Kiss a Scot

Lauren Smith

Romance

Joanna Lennox is a fine bred English lady. She's pretty, intelligent, witty and...on the shelf. With an influential baron as her brother and a hefty dowry, she should have gentleman lining up at her door but instead she seems doomed to become a spinster. Then one night a handsome highland lord steals a kiss from her in a library which stirs her deepest desires. Desperate for a life and a love of her own, she turns to the darkly handsome, brooding, Scottish lord who lights a fire within her with his touch. But will his secrets and enemies tear them apart?Brock Kincade knows better than to go around kissing English ladies in dark libraries. Especially when a lady is the little sister of the man who will shortly be his brother-in-law. But Joanna is pure temptation, and he's been denied that innocent affection for far too long. He doesn't believe in love, but he believes in lust, and after that single kiss, he...
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The Wicked Beginning

The Wicked Beginning

Lauren Smith

Romance

A wicked duke and his four friends plot the abduction of an innocent debutante out of revenge. Have you ever wondered how the League of Rogues came to be? What events led to the adventure that started it all? This is your exclusive inside peek into the world of the beloved bad boys of the League shortly before their lives are changed forever. *Note: This is a short prequel that ends on a cliffhanger which has a happy ending in the full story Wicked Designs.
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The Gentleman's Seduction

The Gentleman's Seduction

Lauren Smith

Romance

'Tis the season…for revenge.Eleven years ago during Christmas, Martin Banks' family was thrown into the streets by wealthy landlord, Edwin Hartwell. Now this holiday season, Fate has handed Martin an unexpected gift. Vengeance. Defeating Hartwell at cards gives Martin the chance to financially ruin the man—but damn, instead of money, Hartwell offers his daughter as payment. And double damn, Martin stupidly accepts. How did retribution turn into seduction? Martin refuses to let himself fall in love, so there must be rules to this game.And perhaps a bit of romance.Desperate to save her father from ruin, Livvy Hartwell agrees to accompany Martin as his paramour. She long ago accepted that a penniless bluestocking like herself had no chance for a well-suited marriage. If a few passionate months with a man like Martin is all she'll ever have as far as romance, it's an opportunity she will take. But she must guard...
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Cocktail

Cocktail

Lauren Smith

Romance

Dating is a nightmare. For successful Aubree Cole, finding love while building a lucrative career seems to be just out of her reach. The Meet Cute dating app sounded like a great idea. But a series of crash and burn dates has her rethinking dating that is...until she meets him. Matthew, a sexy Australian bartender comes to her rescue after a date bails on her. He gives her a much-needed cocktail and some great advice...along with inspiring a few naughty daydreams. It's just enough to make her take a chance on love again. When a secret admirer challenge lands in her dating app inbox to French Kiss a Stranger, she knows just where to start. Throwing caution to the wind, she accepts the dare. Maybe she needs to get out of her comfort zone a bit to uncover something...more. One supposedly-harmless challenge turns into multiple romantic encounters with Matthew and she's left more confused than ever about which man she wants more, the...
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The Care and Feeding of Rogues

The Care and Feeding of Rogues

Lauren Smith

Romance

Who could resist a wager from London's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes? Certainly not his scientist neighbor, Elise Hamblin. The challenge: Study the primal nature of men; but not just any man for her study will do. Sherlock has chosen the Earl of March, a man with a scandalous and dangerous reputation. Prospero Harrington has returned from exile to claim the title of Earl of March and his late father's mounting debts. Desperate to secure his future, he responds to an intriguing ad and finds himself the subject of observation by a beautiful woman in exchange for a hefty payment. Disguised as a man, Elise follows Prospero about London. Their close proximity and adventures provides a fascinating introduction to the world of men, passion, and desire. Tragedy strikes and Elise must rely on the scandalous rogue she's been studying. Enemies from Prospero's dangerous past set their sights on the new earl and the woman...
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A Sinful Gift

A Sinful Gift

Lauren Smith

Romance

Kidnapped by one man and given to another...to be shared...Feisty, brave and intelligent, Hazel Callahan isn't afraid of many things in life. Until she's kidnapped while leaving a bar by a gorgeous mountain man. Her mysterious captor tells her that she's to be a gift to his friend. When she meets the man who will be the master of her fate, she never imagined she would actually be tempted to surrender to him, or that she'd be willing when he tells her he plans to share her with the mountain man who first took her. A game of seduction begins and soon Hazel fears she may never want to leave...
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