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This book is an absolute gem!  It starts with Jocelyn, a 34 year old divorced mother of two, sitting in a hotel waiting for her Escort to arrive.

No, not a prostitute. An ‘Escort’ … An ‘Escort’ who’d meet me in a hotel room and do anything I asked in exchange for three hundred prepaid dollars.
Not a prostitute at all. *snicker*

Enter Sabian, the sexy, suave and gentlemanly escort who proceeds to rock her world. Being so good at his job, of course Jocelyn books him again… and again… and again. As they get to know each other, their feelings develop, and there is a very natural progression from escort and client into true lovers.

The relationship is really well written and we clearly see the shift from Sabian the Escort to the more real and emotional, Austin. He and Jocelyn were absolutely open and talked about EVERYTHING, and I loved that. Yes, there is a lot of sex in this book (and I mean A LOT!), but again, it was very well written, there was nothing that made me cringe, and there was a very strong emotional element to it. You could see the change in their sex life as their relationship developed.

I liked the twist that Gallagher gave us where Jocelyn and Austin got together in the middle of the story, and when they did, Austin didn’t quit his job. We got to see them have a relationship while he was still “providing a service” to scores of women (seriously, I don’t know how Jocelyn did it, but she did). Other books like this that I have read finish when the couple fall in love and the hooker stops hooking. I loved that this one was different. Of course things are hard betweeen them, but that’s what gives us such a great story, because their challenges are so unique. And again, they were honest and open and they talked about it.

But what I loved most about this book was that it was all so believable! The storyline is one that has been done before, but everything in this story seemed very authentic – from their early encounters, Jocelyn’s feelings about it all, them getting to know each other, and slowly falling for each other, it all had a feeling of reality about it. There was no insta-love, no crazy situations and no bad guy. Jocelyn and Austin seem like real people, neither one was over-characterised or too whiney or too perfect, they were just regular people in an unusual situation, dealing with it in a sensible, functional way.

I had a smile on my face the entire time I was reading this – except when I needed to take a moment to fan myself from all of the heat (nah, I was still smiling even then!). It’s a great, short read with a HEA and a very satisfying Epilogue.

I leave you with my favourite quote from the very swoony Austin…

“There’s sex, and there’s…this.” He met my eyes. “Just being with someone like this. This isn’t something that can be bought or sold, and I couldn’t manufacture it for someone no matter how much they tried to pay me for it.” He ran the backs of his fingers down my cheek. “That’s why I’m here tonight. Because I needed this. And here, with you, is the only place I can get it.” He swallowed hard. “Or give it.”

Loved it! 4.5 stars