Title: Man on Top
Author:  Laurelin Paige
Publisher/Year:  Paige Press 9/29/20
Length:  80 Pages
Series: Man in Charge Duet #0.5

Overview

It was Teyana’s idea to crash the Sebastian’s party. Once in a lifetime, and all that.

Which was why I snuck in, even after she got sick and bailed, though it isn’t really fun without her. 

Until I end up on the rooftop with the most stupid-hot guy on the planet, and when he offers to take me home, I can’t imagine telling Teyana I turned him down. 

So I’ll be Cinderella for the party, and a very wicked girl in the bedroom. 

After that, I’ll disappear in the daylight, without even an exchange of names. I don’t belong in his world. One night is all we’ll get.

Unless, of course, fate has other plans…

My Thoughts

I needed something new to read and since we all know what a fan of Laurelin Paige I am, it made sense to pick up another series. Fortunately, this one had a novella come out as a prequel just recently so it’s easy to dive right in.

In this intro to the series, we meet who i’m going to guess is our leading lady, Tess. A girl who’s recently graduated from college and who’s a loyal friend to a fault. She’s part of a group of three girls who all met in college, yet once they left school, life hit hard, they realized that there’s maybe not so much in common. Tess is the glue it seems, Teyana is her closest friend but she was diagnosed with a disease that really puts her through her paces, and this diagnosis kind of put a crimp in the friendship they share with the third girl Kenda. Who turned out to be from New York’s elite and who doesn’t really like to focus or spend time on anything that’s not all about her. Where we find ourselves though is Tess works for Kendra and while Kendra’s ‘away on vacation’ yet again, Tess is able to really try to stand on her own.

Starting with an invitation to a party that Kendra received that Teyana convinced Tess she had to go to. This isn’t just any party, but one thrown by the most elite family in New York and what happens there is world altering.

Tess first walks in on a couple in the throes of it, and when she’s caught by the guy, she realizes that not only was she turned on by what she watched, but it’s the man too. Although he’s too cocky so she walks away. Into another guy who seems just as amazing yet they can’t mix business, which is what she proposes. She decides that while she knows that Kendra is against working with this particular family, she wants to make her best effort to grow,

What happens from here is a night of insane drinking and passion, without the exchange of names, in the hopes that it would help get Tess over her dry spell, but she quickly realizes that she’s mixed business with pleasure unintentionally and that’s where we are left at the end of this intro. So….i’m off to dive into book one since I have no choice but to see what happens. Enjoy!