PROMO BLITZ – FILTHY RICH (Blackstone Dynasty #1) by Raine Miller

November 23, 2016November 23, 2016Leave a comment

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Blurb

Billionaire Caleb Blackstone lives in the glamorous world of wealth and success, with every material luxury. But the moment he sees Brooke Casterley, none of that matters. Caleb is filled with a raw, undeniable need that he can’t ignore…for a girl who is so completely different from everything and everyone he’s ever known.

Only Brooke isn’t looking for love. She knows all too well just how much damage the wrong guy can do. Still, what sane, broke British girl can resist the charms of an incredibly sexy, chivalrous billionaire? What starts as flirtation quickly turns into all-consuming passion. Nothing could have prepared her for the searing heat of Caleb’s touch—or just how much she craves him.

Their whirlwind romance is the stuff of high-society fantasy—but for every moment of pleasure, there is a cost. Past mistakes and tragedy shadow them both…and falling for him might be the kind of trouble she can’t afford.

Excerpt

I would give this thing two drinks max before I was outie.

Nodding and saying the right things, I shook hands with the colleagues who’d known my father and accepted condolences from others. I made a mental note of the people who’d made the effort to mention his name to me, and I would write them down with the event and date as soon as I got home.

I’d worked my way through the room, as I had been taught by my dad—by the best to ever work a roomful of potential deals—when I decided I’d accomplished what I’d set out to do tonight. It was time for me to go. After setting my glass down on an empty table, I started for the door . . . until I saw her.

Just like that. She appeared in my line of sight and I couldn’t take my eyes off her.

The beautiful girl from this morning at the Starbucks on Hereford Street.

I knew it was her because how could anyone forget those sexy boots? Her blonde hair wasn’t down like it had been this morning, though. She’d pulled it back into a sleek ponytail . . . but she was serving at this event? I’d seen her go into that design studio next to Starbucks. She probably had two jobs. Industrious . . . beautiful . . . sexy.

I quickly returned for my half-empty glass and snatched it up from the table. I suddenly felt like an appetizer or two.

She saw me approaching and moved closer with her tray. “What are these called?” I asked without sparing her tray a second glance. Bad move on my part, but I was too busy taking in her golden eyes and hair, and everything else I could now see up close. Perfect skin, dark lashes that framed spectacular eyes, and a scar along the hairline of the right side of her face. Something had hurt her at some point in the past, and I found it utterly insane that I was disturbed by it.

She rolled her pink lips together as if she was trying to suppress laughter. “Well, they’ve told me it’s something called a . . . meatball. Very unusual gourmet creation. You should try one. They’re said to be quite delicious.”

That voice of hers was . . . fucking beautiful.

“Okay.” I picked up a meatball and popped it in my mouth. Didn’t taste a thing. I could have been chewing slaughterhouse by-products and I wouldn’t have known. My brain had shut off everything except her beautiful voice.

“You are either messing with me or that blow to your head must have been devastating. I would wager you’ve had a meatball before.”

“I am.”

She lost her smile. “You are messing with me?”

“No, I am devastating—I mean devastated—by the blow to my head.” What in the mother fuck was I even saying to this girl? I sounded like Rain Man minus the IQ. I needed to stop talking.

“I’m sorry to hear that. It looks painful.”

“It doesn’t hurt me now.” I think I smiled and shook my head but couldn’t be sure. Just call me the village idiot because I knew I was acting like one. I did love the sound of her voice, though.

“Another rare and precious meatball?” She offered her tray and studied me this time. She had to be disgusted by my appearance and turned off by my behavior, but she didn’t show it if she was.

“Yes, please.” I took another meatball but I didn’t eat it. “You are British.”

“You are American,” she said with a fast wink, before turning away to serve other guests.

I watched her walk away from me and felt the pounding of my heart vibrating throughout my entire body.

Something had just happened to me.

I wasn’t completely sure what exactly, but I was crystal clear on the reason.

Her.

About the Author:

Raine Miller has been reading romance novels since she picked up that first Barbara Cartland book at the tender age of thirteen. And it’s a safe bet she’ll never stop, because now she writes them too! Granted Raine’s stories are edgy enough to turn Ms. Cartland in her grave, but to her way of thinking, a hot, sexy hero never goes out of fashion. A former teacher, she’s now writing sexy romance stories full time. She has a handsome prince of a husband, two brilliant sons, and two bouncy Italian Greyhounds to pull her back into the real world if the writing takes her too far away. Her sons know she likes to write stories, but gratefully have never asked to read any, thank God! Raine loves to hear from readers and to chat about the characters in her books. You can contact her at raine_miller@ymail.com or visit www.RaineMiller.com to sign up for updates and her newsletter with links to upcoming books. Join us on Facebook at the Raine Miller Romance Readers group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/raine_miller

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REVIEW – FILTHY RICH (Blackstone Dynasty #1) by Raine Miller

November 15, 2016December 3, 2016Leave a comment

SYNOPSIS:

*****Mel’s Review*****
4.5 Stars
(ARC provided by author)

Brooke Casterley is a 23 yr. old woman from England who lost her parents when she was 15 & went to live with her Nan in Massachusetts. Her Nan ran a household for a wealthy family on a resort island on the Massachusetts Coast called Blackstone Island. Brooke still lives in small cottage on the island & works in Boston at an interior design firm.

Caleb Blackstone is a 31 yr. old gorgeous, successful billionaire bachelor. He grew up privileged in the Boston area & runs Blackstone Global Enterprises. He only does casual relationships with women & never wants more until he crosses paths with Brooke. He keeps running into her everywhere he turns & is totally bewitched by her. He aggressively pursues her, & decides he will do anything to make her his. There’s just something different about her he’s drawn to. She’s nothing like the women he’s usually with & he finds her refreshing.

Caleb falls hard & fast for Brooke and is persistent in trying to woo her. Brooke was hurt by a man in her past & isn’t looking to be in a relationship. She’s just trying to put her life back together. Caleb continues to chase her, & eventually, she can’t resist him any longer. He’s kind, sexy & gives her the most intense pleasure she’s ever experienced. She’s soon hooked on Caleb Blackstone & is completely addicted to him & how he makes her feel. He’s charming and slowly working his way into her heart.

I really loved this book & adored Caleb Blackstone! It is a spin-off of the Blackstone series, & I am so happy we are getting more Blackstones. I can’t wait for James & Winter, and Lucas & Victoria!

*****Dee’s Review*****

4 Fiery Stars****

(ARC kindly provided by Author in exchange for an honest review)

Bold and passionate, this story hits all the right notes, causing your heart to beat faster, and your body temperature to rise to high levels. The Blackstones have arrived, and are here to stay! A perfect start to a series that promises to be electrifying.

Caleb Blackstone is a Billionaire. He comes from a very affluent family and grew up with everything he could possibly want. As an adult, he controls the family business. He’s always working and hardly makes any time for his family or for love.

All that changes the minute he sees Brooke Casterley. The British beauty has captivated him after only one look. But Brooke isn’t looking for love, she keeps sadness very close to her. Love has never been easy for Brooke and after a terrible tragedy, she has kept her heart closed off to those type of feelings. But Caleb Blackstone is hard to resist, and he is determined to get close to Brooke and take away the sadness that is always present in her eyes. What starts as a flirtatious friendship, turns into an explosive romance, causing all the walls to come tumbling down.

The high-society where Caleb comes from will look down on their romance, so it won’t be easy for Brooke to deal with everything that comes with being with Caleb. Will their love be strong enough to win the fight and survive, or will fears and stigmas end their whirlwind romance?

I loved, loved, loved, Caleb! I loved how charming, chivalrous, and sexy he was. I loved how he was very straight forward, never playing games. He wanted Brooke and he totally went for it, no matter the circumstances, his family, nothing could stop him. The story was fast paced and totally romantic. Chapter after chapter you can’t help but fall in love with the story and its characters. This was the first book of a series, where each book is about a different family member from the Blackstone family. I’m really excited for what’s more to come.

*****Patty’s Review*****

*****FOUR STARS*****
{ARC Generously Provided by Author}

Nothing was familiar when it came to Brooke. Each new thing we shared together felt to me as if I’d never done it before, and more importantly, as if I never wanted to do it again with anyone other than her—ever.

Fans of Raine Miller are in for a treat with this new spin-off series, The Blackstone Dynasty. I was a little sad that Ethan Blackstone never makes an appearance in this one but I do believe that Caleb Blackstone will melt a few hearts out there. Those of you who have read Raine’s other books, know all too well that she can deliver the decadent steam like no other and we get it and then some in Filthy Rich!!

Caleb Blackstone has kept himself very busy running the family’s empire for the past several years and hasn’t had much time for anything else. His personal life has been filled with one-night-stands and a few meaningless relationships that never outlived more than a few months. He’s never been tempted to want anything more with a woman until the day he sees a strikingly beautiful woman leaving the Starbucks he frequents and entering an interior design office next door. He’s even more surprised when he sees the woman again, serving hors d’oeuvres at a charity dinner later that evening. He ends up coming to the rescue when one of the guests gets a little too handsy with Brooke. Caleb later learns that it really is a small world, when he finds out that she lives on Blackstone Island with her grandmother, who was the cook for the Blackstone family for over thirty years.

Brooke Casterley is no stranger to heartbreak. She lost both of her parents when she was only fifteen and had to leave her home in England to go live with her Grandmother in Massachusetts. Her life on Blackstone Island turned out to be a good one but while she went off to college she became involved with a man who would turn out to be a master manipulator and abusive. Once again, tragedy brings Brooke back to Blackstone Island. She’s trying to get her life back on track and a relationship with another man is the last thing that she needs or wants. But sometimes the one thing you think you can do without, happens to be what you need the most!!

There is no mistaking the insta-love factor in this story. Caleb has hearts and flowers coming out of his eyeballs the moment he sees Brooke and he vigorously pursues her. But he’s so very charismatic and I couldn’t deny the fact that I might have been wishing I were in Brooke’s shoes. Don’t even get me started on how incredibly hot the shmexy factor is in this book!!

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EXCERPT REVEAL – FILTHY RICH (Blackstone Dynasty, #1) by Raine Miller

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PROLOGUE

CALEB

MY father always said I would know when the right woman came along. He was such a wise man. When it happened, I didn’t even question it because the process was so effortless. I just fell into her . . . because my heart knew her right away.

Knew she was the one for me.

I’d known her for years actually. She came to Blackstone Island to live with her grandmother after her parents were killed in a car crash. A devastated fifteen-year-old trying to adapt to a new life in a new place, trying to find where she fit in to a world so different from where she’d come—a forty-square-mile resort island off the Massachusetts coast where her grandmother ran the household at Blackwater, the family ancestral home.

Should have known of her, that is.

Our paths didn’t cross that I am aware of, but it’s possible. I rarely visited the island in those days because I was a twenty-three-year-old junior executive fresh out of Harvard Business School, learning everything I could about the family business. I traveled the world, enjoying the excitement of international boardroom deals by day and socializing at off-hours business affairs by night. I worked hard at both. Affairs, liaisons, one-night stands had all come and gone without a backward glance. Nameless faces and unremarkable encounters filled my nights whenever I wanted them to. The hopping nightlife of the big cities with even bigger players vying for a piece of the pie became my normal. I embraced every aspect that came with the lifestyle. Wealth, sexual favors, a certain celebrity born out of my name, all collected with barely any effort. For the next eight years, I had the world in the palm of my hand as I went about amassing a personal fortune in addition to increasing the family coffers.

Or so I thought.

I didn’t yet know what was missing from my life. Until her. And then, when I realized exactly who she was, and how fate had gotten the last laugh on me, it was already far too late. She’d bewitched me utterly. And furthermore, I knew she had no idea who I was or what ties connected us.

Maybe that’s what made her so intoxicating?

I didn’t know and I didn’t care because it made absolutely no difference to me. I wanted her with a primal desire I could barely understand, yet I embraced that desire wholeheartedly because I was incapable of doing anything else with it. How could I not? She had enchanted me.

However, once my brain managed to catch up, it wasn’t quite so effortless to accept this new and unfamiliar reality of feeling something for a woman beyond the unquestioning curiosity of when and if we might fuck.

I struggled against the idea of her at first for a few reasons. She was too young. My mother would never approve of us together. Others in my world would probably chew her up and spit her out, destroying her sweetness. But I soon found out my heart didn’t give a flying fuck about any of those reasons. The heart wants what it wants, and I’d discovered that for my heart, “want” was all wrapped up in the package that was Brooke Ellen Casterley.

The death of my father from the evils of cancer was an eye-opener for my siblings and me. Money can buy a lot of things, but it can’t stop the grim reaper from calling on you if it’s your time to go. Death was called the great equalizer. And it truly was. Wealth is a trivial thing when it’s only extra fuckin’ zeros on a balance sheet that makes any difference between lives lived. Doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor when you die, because none of it counts at the end. You leave this life the same way you come into it. You go out alone and take nothing. “There has to be more to life than making money, son,” he told me at the end. He took hold of my hand and squeezed as hard as his frail strength could manage so as to make me understand the importance. He had regrets and wanted to share with me what he’d learned to prevent me from making the same mistakes. I understood him clearly.

The most essential value my father tried to teach me along with my brothers and sisters was the idea of family. Family took precedence over money. “Take care of the family first and the wealth will grow, Caleb,” he said.

A strong family moving forward was the only thing that truly meant anything at the end of the day.

The Blackstones had been here on the island since the days when the Mayflower made its treacherous journey to the untamed American shores. As the eldest son it was my duty to make sure the Blackstones would still be here a hundred years from now.

My plan to fulfill my duty included her. It wouldn’t work any other way for me. I knew it the first time I ever felt the heat of her eyes as they burned me from across the room.

I knew it down in my bones.

I was going to marry that lovely, beautiful girl from England, and she would be mine.