Review & excerpt tour - Falling Under You by Laurelin Paige

About FALLING UNDER YOU: 

Norma Anders has always prided herself on her intelligence and determination. She climbed out of poverty, put herself through school and is now a chief financial advisor at Pierce Industries. She’s certainly a woman who won’t be topped. Not in business anyway.

But she’s pretty sure she’d like to be topped in the bedroom.

Unfortunately most men see independence and ambition in a woman and they run. Even her dominant boss, Hudson Pierce has turned down her advances, leaving her to fear that she will never find the lover she’s longing for.

Then the most unlikely candidate steps up. Boyd, her much-too-young and oh-so-hot assistant surprises her one night with bold suggestions and an authoritative demeanor he’s never shown her in the office.

It’s a bad idea…such a deliciously bad idea…but when Boyd takes the reins and leads her to sensual bliss she’s never known, the headstrong Norma can’t help but fall under his command.

Buy Links:

Amazon eBook ** Amazon Paperback

Excerpt:

I pushed the door open and stepped onto the rooftop, grateful for the empty landscape if not for the hot, muggy night. Escape. That’s what this was. A much-needed escape.

I walked over to the railing and looked down at the street below, but my attention was still on the scene I’d just left. The awkward, horribly embarrassing scene. I groaned out loud. I could still see the look on Hudson’s face when I’d cornered him in the hallway and kissed him. Could still hear the disdain in his voice as he’d pushed me away and said, “You don’t want what I have to give, Norma. Trust me.”

But I did want what he had to give. At least, I was pretty sure I did. After the disappointing series of men I’d dated who’d failed to satisfy me in the bedroom, I’d realized I craved a lover with the confident, powerful strength of a man like Hudson Pierce. A man who controlled and had authority over me in every way possible. I’d thought that he would be the one guy who could handle that I was a smart, successful woman without letting it intimidate him. As his chief financial advisor, I’d been his right hand “man” for years. Couldn’t I also be the perfect companion elsewhere? The potential of the power couple we could make was scary and thrilling all at once.

Apparently, he didn’t have the same vision.

My flaws ran through my mind like bullet points on a PowerPoint presentation.

Too old (thirty-four, which was only a digit off from thirty-five)

Too serious (how else did a woman get to where I was in the business world?)

Too independent (I didn’t depend on anyone for anything, though I’d prefer the real deal to my seven-inch battery-operated boyfriend)

Too…not blond (the most frequent hair color of the women I’d seen on Hudson’s arm)

I groaned again. Stupid, stupid, stupid. What the hell had I been thinking? Obviously, I hadn’t been. I couldn’t even blame my behavior on being drunk—though there was plenty of alcohol at the event downstairs, I’d touched nothing but water all evening. The party was meant to be a celebration. Pierce Industries had just closed its highest earning year ever, and I was a key player in that success. Silly me for thinking that a better way to celebrate would be to announce my infatuation with my boss instead of raising a toast like everyone else.

God, Monday was going to suck. How could I face Hudson without turning beet red with shame ever again?

Review 

Falling Under You is a sizzling age gap romance that I really enjoyed. It's a spinoff novella from the Fixed trilogy and can be read as a standalone - I haven't read any of the other books and I followed the story with no problems.  I really liked both characters and enjoyed joining them on their journey to happiness. They had a lot to overcome, including an age gap and the fact that the heroine is the hero's boss at a company with a no fraternisation rule. I did feel that their story would have benefited from being told in a full length novel as I would have liked to know the hero, Boyd, better and I found the frequent time jumps a bit annoying. Having said all of that though, this is still a thoroughly entertaining story that put a smile on my face.

Norma holds a position of power at Pierce Industries, she's dominant in the boardroom but she longs to be submissive in the bedroom. Her desire for a strong, dominating man leads her to make an embarrassing pass at her boss. After this she thinks she'll never find her ideal man until her handsome young assistant tells her that he can give her what she needs. It's a bad idea for a number of reasons, but Norma can't resist Boyd despite knowing that they can't have a future together.

Boyd is panty meltingly sexy, I can definitely see why Norma finds him hard to resist. He works hard to make their relationship work and does his best to be what Norma needs, both in business and at home. They are great together, their chemistry was red hot. I really enjoyed this book, I just wished it was a bit longer. Falling Under You receives four out of five stars.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.

About Laurelin Paige:

USA Today and New York Times Bestselling Author Laurelin Paige is a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however. When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s probably singing, watching Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, or dreaming of Adam Levine. She's also a proud member of Mensa International though she doesn't do anything with the organization except use it as material for her bio. She is represented by Rebecca Friedman.

Website | Facebook | Twitter | FALLING UNDER YOU on Goodreads