Thursday, January 26, 2017

Blog Tour: The Billionaire's Bet by Victoria Davies



Title: The Billionaire’s Bet
Series: Sexy Billionaires #2
Author: Victoria Davies
Release Date: Jan 23, 2017

Synopsis:

Hailey Mitchel wants one thing. Her boss. The only problem is he’s never looked at her as more than a loyal employee. At least, not until his charming business rival, Caleb, drops into her life with an offer she can’t refuse. He’s willing to bet he can make her fall in love with him in a month, and if he’s wrong, he’ll help her find the keys to her boss’s heart.

Caleb Langston wants one thing. Revenge. Hailey is his ticket to finally evening the score with his old adversary. There’s just one problem. The more time he spends with her, the less he cares about his grand plans for payback. But love is always a gamble, and soon he’ll have to choose between his past and his future. And pray Hailey never discovers the secret he’s been hiding from her.

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Excerpt:

“I’m attracted to men of substance. Guess that rules you out.”

“But not my rival. Alec is your paragon of honor, isn’t he?”

“He’s an excellent man,” she agreed.

“One you just wish would walk over to your desk and sweep you off your feet, carrying you out into the sunset.”

“I’d probably break his back, and we’d both end up on the floor.”

His gaze raked down her body. “I’d be willing to risk it.”

“Luckily, you’ll never have to.”

His eyes returned to hers. “Why not just tell him?” he asked. “Confess your undying devotion and see what he does?”

She knew what he’s do. He’d get flustered trying to figure out how to tell her he didn’t return her affections. She wasn’t petite or blond, two things all his previous paramours had in common.

She wasn’t pursuing a career in acting, and she didn’t have trouble calculating the percentage of a tip. Worse, she didn’t come from old money the way Caleb and Alec did. She hadn’t grown up in that privileged world, didn’t understand the deeply ingrained rules. Alec had said more than once that when he settled down, it’d be to make a good alliance for his family. Keep all that lovely money in the right bloodlines.

No, she was nothing like the woman he would eventually fall in love with.

Not that logic stopped her from wishing for the impossible every now and then.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“All right.” Caleb straightened from the bar. “Why don’t I go ask him these questions and see what he thinks?”

Her fingers sank into his arm before he could move.

“Don’t.”

The movement had been a mistake. An admission. A certainty filled his expression that hadn’t been there a moment ago.

She shook her head, knowing she was steering toward a cliff. “What do you want?” What would buy his silence?

“I want many things,” he said, swirling the liquor in his glass. “Chief among them is you.”

“It’s just because you love the chase,” she said, rolling her eyes. “We’d never work.”

“Maybe,” he replied with a shrug. “But it’d be fun to try.”

“I’m not sleeping with you in order to keep your mouth shut.”

“I don’t remember asking you to.”

She resisted the urge to stamp her foot. “Then what are you asking?”

“I’m going to make you a bet,” he said, his eyes capturing hers. “Give me one month.”

“To do what?”

“Make you fall in love with me.”



Review:

Hailey is a hard worker, she knows what needs to be done and does it without question. Which is why its so hard for her to understand why her boss, Alec,  doesn't seem to notice all the work she does, or even more, why he doesn't notice her as a person. She's thought herself in love with him for a while, but known he didn't see it himself. 

Caleb is Alec's rival, and more than that Enemy Number One.  But Caleb sees something between them that Hailey and Alec don't see and he plans to use it to his advantage. It's the perfect plot for revenge, even if it means hurting a decent woman. But as they say, even the best plans fail, and Caleb forgot to take one thing into consideration as he devised his initial plot; Love and feelings. 

Once Caleb confronts Hailey with his observations about what is (or isn't) going on between her and Alec, he offers her a propostion in the form of a bet, He's got one month to make her fall for him, and if that doesn't happen, he will help her win Alec's heart.  But what Hailey doesn't know when she falls into the lure is that Caleb has side plans that have nothing to do with her. 

The Billionaire's Bet grabbed my attention from page one, I liked Hailey immdiately and related to her in many ways, but more so I was curious what the history between Caleb and Alec was.  I needed to know what came between two men who for all intents and purposes seemed to have been brothers if not by blood but heart for years.  What had gone wrong between them to make such devious plots abound? 

This story will keep you hooked needing to find out the details of the past and also watching to see how the whole mess will play out.  Can love trump revenge? Can love win? Can a revenge driven man change his whole outlook? The Billionaire's Bet will answer all of those questions and more as you flip each page and delve deeper into the story of Hailey, Caleb and Alec.  You'll laugh, you'll feel frustrated at not knowing every detail and wanting the knowledge, you'll want to smack Caleb and Alec on the back of the head sometimes, but you'll also fall in love and find yourself rooting for Hailey and love. 






Author Info:

Victoria Davies’s passion for writing started young. Luckily she had a family who encouraged believing in magic and embracing imagination. From stories quickly scribbled in diaries, her love of storytelling developed. Since then her characters may have evolved and her plots may have grown decidedly more steamy but she never lost her love of the written word. Writing is not only a way to silence the wonderful voices in her head, but it also allows her to share her passions with her readers.


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