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A review by emmd13
The Billion Dollar Bachelor by Jackie Ashenden
4.0
4.5 Fast passed, fantastic, fun filled stars!
Summary:
The Billionaire’s Club: a fabulously sexy contemporary series about some of the world’s wealthiest, most powerful men and the women they claim…and keep.
Jax Morrow is a dangerously handsome, spectacularly wealthy entrepreneur whose world is turned upside down when Pandora Garret walks into a dark, smoky bar one night—a stunning combination of sex and innocence. He knows she’s trouble at first sight, but Jax can’t let her leave…unless she’s leaving with him. Pandora has had enough. Kept under lock and key by her powerful, controlling father, she aches for freedom. When she briefly escapes and meets Jax she knows he is just what she has been looking for: forbidden, unforgettable passion. After one night in Jax’s arms, Pandora knows she can never go back to living under one man’s domination. Determined to control her own life she tries to resist Jax, but a dangerous desire rises between them—one that threatens to destroy them. But both Pandora and Jax discover that they just can’t be pulled away…,
Review:
The Billion Dollar Bachelor is the first book in Jakie Ashenden’s The Billionaire’s Club. And boy was it a good beginning! While it was a little on the short side, 105 pages on my device, I found the novella to be exciting and just enough to give me a sense of what this author’s writing style was about. I have to say, I really enjoyed it and will definitely be checking out more of her work.
From the very first page, I was swept up in Jax and Pandora’s world. The tension, chemistry, sex, and even just their everyday interactions were steamy and flowed well with the plot. Pandora has been sheltered her whole life by her daddy, a crime lord, and used as a pawn in his schemes. She’s twenty-five years old and has barely had a life that she can call her own. Just after finding out she’s going to be engaged to a man she doesn’t love, let alone even know, she decides to make a break for it when the opportunity arrives.
After leaving the so called safety of her father’s limo and bodyguards, she finds herself with nowhere to go and nothing other than the fancy dress on her back to call her own. She just so happens to wonder into a bar that’s currently housing the handsome Jax Morrow, Billionaire CEO of Morrow Enterprises. From this point on, things take a turn and go at breakneck speed. They flirt, have insane chemistry, and eventually end up leaving for his Brownstone together.
Let me just say, for a twenty-five year old woman who’s a virgin and has led a relatively sheltered life, she sure has some delicious ideas for what to do in the bedroom!
Anyway, in typical fashion, mob boss daddy comes looking for her and strikes up a deal with Jax. Marry his daughter or lose his company and everything he’s worked so hard for. Naturally, he makes the smart decision and decides to marry Pandora. Although there’s a catch. He and Pandora have a plan of their own…
I won’t give anything else away, but I will say that it ends with a happily ever after for our Snow and the Huntsman turned Prince Charming. Yay! No cliffhangers!
Overall, I would highly recommend this novella to others along with the rest of Jackie Ashenden’s work. Keep on doing what you’re doing, Mrs. Ashenden! Although maybe making your stories longer? They are just wonderful.
Favorite Quotes:
“As long as you give me an orgasm before you kill me, I don’t care.” – Pandora
She wasn’t Snow White lying in her coffin, helpless and sleeping. Hell no. She was the fucking prince.
Shit, she wasn’t a princess. She was a fucking queen. – Jax
“I thought love meant being a cage…Then I met you. And you let me make my own choices. My own decisions. You didn’t keep me in a cage. You gave me everything that was missing in my life, and when I wanted to go, you let me.”
“You know why, don’t you?”
“Yeah, Jax, I do.”
“Because I love you.”
“Me, Pandora? Are you sure? You know what I want. That’s you. Forever. And once I have you, I’ll never let you go. Understand?”
“But I don’t want you to let me go, Jax. Because being with you, loving you, is freedom.”
“Well, what do you kow? Turns out you’re Prince Charming after all.”