FULL PACKAGE by Lauren Blakely is Here!
A sexy and funny friends-to-lovers standalone romantic comedy, FULL PACKAGE is about a sexy, witty man as he falls head over heels for a woman, who just happens to be his roommate. It takes everything you love about a Lauren Blakely novel –witty dialogue, smoking hot sex scenes, and heartfelt moments –and puts them into one fantastic book! Told in the guy's POV, with a creative look into Josie’s POV as well, FULL PACKAGE is the laugh-out-loud and insanely hot story of what happens when a sexy ER doc falls madly in love with his gorgeous roommate...and they’re forced to deal with all that simmering desire in a mere six hundred square feet of living space.
"Lauren Blakely has mastered the recipe for delightful and delicious. It's called Full Package. I can't find words to tell you how much I enjoyed this friends to lovers romance with enough sweet to melt in your mouth and enough spice to melt your panties.”
~ iScream Books
“Lauren Blakely nailed it AGAIN. This man man is perfection! HOT, SWEET, FUNNY, SMART.”
~ Queen of Hearts
✮✮✮FULL PACKAGE is here!✮✮✮
From the New York Times Bestselling author of MISTER O and BIG ROCK, comes a hot & hilarious new standalone romantic comedy...
I've been told I have quite a gift.
Hey, I don't just mean in my pants. I've got a big brain too, and a huge heart of gold. And I like to use all my gifts to the fullest, the package included. Life is smooth sailing....
Until I find myself stuck between a rock and a sexy roommate, which makes for one very hard...place.
Because scoring an apartment in this city is harder than finding true love. So even if I have to shack up with my buddy's smoking hot and incredibly amazing little sister, a man's got to do what a man's got to do.
I can resist Josie. I'm disciplined, I'm focused, and I keep my hands to myself, even in the mere five-hundred square feet we share. Until the one night she insists on sliding under the covers with me. It'll help her sleep after what happened that day, she says.
Spoiler-neither one of us sleeps.
Did I mention she's also one of my best friends? That she's brilliant, beautiful and a total firecracker? Guess that makes her the full package too.
What's a man stuck in a hard place to do?
You can find this sexy standalone romantic comedy across all retailers!
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✦Audio (Sebastian York!) ✦or via Audible
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Review (By Cindy)
Lauren Blakely has done it again! Full Package is the latest Male POV standalone, and it’s Chase and
Josie’s story. Blakely’s standalone stories always offer a wonderful treat for
her readers – they bring back characters from prior books. It’s like visiting
with old friends while at the same time making new ones. With Full Package the author does just that.
Chase and Josie have been friends since before Chase left
for a stint abroad with Doctors Without Borders. Now that he’s returned, they are
both looking forward to re-establishing the friendship. Chase has been crashing
on his brother Max’s couch since he returned to NYC, but Chase is ready for his
own space. Josie is one of those fortunate New Yorkers living in an affordable
(albeit small) two-bedroom apartment. Josie has space.
The solution seems obvious. Friends can be roommates,
right? Actually, friends make the best roommates, don’t they? Chase is a master
of compartmentalizing. It’s a skill that serves him well in the ER, and he
feels confident that the same skill will work with his friend Josie – his sexy,
witty friend – but friend just the same. Besides, Josie’s been doing the
on-line dating thing, so compartmentalizing should be no problem, even though
Chase Is completely obsessed with Josie. Well, a particular and prominent part
of her anyway. When the lines begin to blur
between friends/roommates and friends with benefits, the struggle to put each
other back in the just friends category
threatens to be a bigger challenge than either of them anticipated, but the
only ones who seem surprised by their realization is Chase and Josie.
Full Package is
told from Chase’s POV, and what an amusing and endearing POV it is. The
supporting characters are great too, and they make Chase and Josie’s predicament
even more entertaining. Full Package is
an absolutely delightful and amusing read.
Five stars.
Excerpt
I point to the curved wooden stand with a hook at the top.
“This. Explain this.”
Josie sets her hands on her hips. “It’s a banana holder.”
I give her a stern look. “I can read. I don’t need to know what. I
need to know why.” I poke the object on the shelf at Bed Bath &
Beyond, otherwise known as the Nexus of Unnecessary Things. Pretty sure there’s
some kind of vortex or force field right smack dab in the middle of this store
attracting all the weird, bizarre, and odd home goods. “Why can’t they sit on
the kitchen counter? Or, how about in a bowl?”
“Maybe the bananas just like to dangle?” she suggests. “Hang free and all?”
Smacking my forehead, I go along with it. “Aha. That makes perfect sense.”
“I’m here to help.” She tugs on my shirtsleeve. “But can we please get to the
sheet aisle? You can’t sleep on a naked mattress.”
“That may be true, but I could definitely sleep naked on a mattress,” I offer,
and she laughs as we navigate through another sardine-packed aisle in the
mammoth store.
It’s one in the afternoon, and I just moved in this morning. That took all of
two hours. Spending my twenties in med school and as a resident gave me very
little time for the acquisition of things, so most of my possessions fit in a
duffel bag. I have very little. Not even sheets for a queen-size bed. Ergo, I’m
spending Saturday at Bed Bath & Beyond, which is a bit like
wandering through a Buzzfeed post titled “Ten Things I’ll Never Use.”
More like five hundred. Wait. Make that five hundred and one, because I just
spotted the new number one item on the list.
“That,” I say as I make a beeline for a shelf of crème brûlée torches. Grabbing
a silvery one, I hold it up. “Please say we can have a housewarming party, and
you’ll make crème brûlée, and I can stride all proud and awesome into the
kitchen,” I say, puffing out my chest and deepening my voice. “And I can light
it with a torch, and we’ll all ooh and ahh at
the manly fire I made when I lit up a dessert.”
She arches an eyebrow. “A manly fire?”
I nod vigorously. “And then you’ll let the guests take turns punching me in the
face for being a total douche for owning a crème brûlée torch.”
She narrows her eyes. “You actually want people to punch you?”
I’m deadly serious as I answer her. “If I ever own a crème brûlée torch, you
have carte blanche to punch me, Josie. You really should.” I drop the torch on
the shelf and take her hand, clasping it tightly in mine. “Promise me. From
this day forward. Promise you’ll punch me if I ever own a crème brûlée torch, a
rotating tie rack, or more than one kind of cheese grater. This is part of our
roommate pact.”
She grips my hand tighter, her green eyes glowing with stark seriousness. “I
solemnly swear to pummel you under all the aforementioned circumstances. As
proof of our friendship and roommate solidarity.”
“You’re a saint,” I say, then wrap a hand around her head and tug her close for
a quick kiss on her forehead.
And hello, sweet, sexy scent of Josie. What is this delicious smell? Is it . .
. oh fuck me.Cherries. My God, she smells like cherries. Like the
perfect summer fruit. Like the naughtiest fruit. And I’ve got to wonder if that
cherry scent is her face lotion, her shampoo, or her body wash?
Body
wash.
My mind is adrift, and the word association begins. Because what goes with body
wash but nudity?
Naked woman in the shower. Washing. Lathering. Soaping.
Ah, hell.
Snap
the fuck out it, Summers.
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Josie and Chase put together some of their favorite things just for you to celebrate the release of FULL PACKAGE!
The FULL PACKAGE is filled with:
✮ $50 Gift Card to Lush: Fresh Handmade Cosmetics for fruity scented bath products that Chase loves so much.
✮ $50 Gift Card to Sugarfina: A Luxury Candy Boutique where you can sample some of Josie's favorite gourmet candy.
✮ A lovely Coach Wristlet containing a $50 Amazon Gift Card for you to spend on whatever your heart desires.
✮ And last but not least, my entire Audiobook Collection minus Full Package on Audible. It is aurally delicious!
About Lauren Blakely:
Since self-publishing her debut romance novel CAUGHT UP IN US over three years ago, Lauren Blakely has sold more than 1.5 million books. She is known for her sexy contemporary romance style that’s full of heat, heart and humor. A devout fan of cake and canines, Lauren has plotted entire novels while walking her four-legged friends. She lives in California with her family. With thirteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than seventy times. Her bestselling series include Sinful Nights, Seductive Nights, No Regrets, Caught Up in Love, and Fighting Fire as well as standalone hit romances like BIG ROCK, MISTER O, WELL HUNG, and THE SEXY ONE which were all instant New York Times Bestsellers. In January she’ll release FULL PACKAGE, a standalone romantic comedy. To receive an email when Lauren releases a new book, sign up for her newsletter! laurenblakely.com/newsletter.
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