Title: Star-Crossed
Author: Luna Lacour
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Disclaimer: This work contains explicit sexual content, language, and delicate subject matter. It is intended for mature readers.
It started with a game – seduce the new teacher.
Eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Laurent is living the American Dream. Born into a wealthy, socialite family with more opulent surroundings and material things than any girl could even fathom, Kaitlyn is the fresh, young face amidst a sea of morally-amiss Manhattan Debutantes. She is educated, poised, and on the outside – entirely virtuous. Her life, in short, is perfect.
Or so it would seem.
Inside the walls of her Upper East Side mansion, Kaitlyn is struggling. After her parents’ divorce and her father’s remarriage to a beautiful but otherwise utterly vapid woman, Kaitlyn quickly finds herself living in a realm of self-created fantasy, completely detached and entirely clashing with her new family – particularly, her classmate-turned-stepbrother, Marius. Arrogant and with a penchant for playing games, he is intrigued and infatuated by Kaitlyn’s faux-chaste outer facade that she uses to cover an otherwise calloused heart.
When the two of them enter into into their final semester at Trinity Prep, and the buzz around campus is that a gorgeous new teacher has set foot in the classroom, Marius makes Kaitlyn a bet: seduce the man who is now her Literature teacher.
If she wins, she gets his trust fund. Money that she can use to finally escape a life that she has come to loathe.
If Marius wins…he gets her virginity.
When an initial spark turns into full-blown obsession, and her affections are inevitably returned – Kaitlyn learns that there are no actions without consequence, and some affairs are simply star-crossed.
I cannot WAIT to get my hands on this book…everything about it just screams READ ME! Want a taste? Keep reading…
We looked at each other, something bleeding through our eyes that was both a mix of desire and unshakable fear. We were both repelled and enthralled, alive and wavering in that small stretch of space between safety and chaos.
Let it be known that I crossed the line first. William Tennant, before that irreversible second, was an innocent man.
Pressing him against the wall, I stood on my toes, and kissed him.
At first, his hands shot up, like a criminal marked with a red hot target; like he was facing certain death by firing squad. They fell slow as quick-sand, eventually finding my hips where they settled with a shaky hesitancy, hovering just above the fabric.
There was no gripping of limbs, no clashing of teeth against teeth. Mr. Tennant kissed my mouth like it was something to worship, something to savor. Delicate and delicious, his breath shallow as a pool of puddle water. And if I were still a child, still stuck in the age of sticky-sweet candy and hop-scotch, I would have jumped and played in that murky depth forever.
In the dark, it was impossible to see him. All I had were what my remaining senses could grant me: touch and taste and the soft, intoxicating sound of his lips against my own.
I reached down, slowly, and pressed a hand against his covered erection. If he smiled, I couldn’t see it. I felt totally empowered. Awesome not in the sense of something great, but in that sole ability to bring a grown man to his knees.
“What are you trying to do to me?” he asked. Only there was no seductiveness to the question, no intent to arouse. It was a genuine plea, each word cutting like a razor against calloused flesh.
“I could ask you the very same thing, Mr. Tennant.”
I was touching his face, my fingers tracing over the full petal-soft flesh of his lips. The darkness was entirely impenetrable; it was impossible to see whether I was looking into his eyes or something else.
Around us, the sounds of cars hissing against wet pavement and the wind through branches told us that there was still life outside, even if everything in that moment, between my teacher and I, had managed to freeze. Our mouths met and parted with a fluid urgency, his hands still quivering like a teenage boy that had never touched a girl before. Like this was our first shared experience.
Will cupped my face in his hands, his breath fading in and out, rising and falling. The scent, the warmth, it had already imprinted into my cells.
“I need to know what you’re thinking,” he said.
I thought about Juliet, and how she had avoided playing the games that so many other women did. She had succumbed to her true passions. And here I was, locking lips with a man who was entirely fooled; there was no trace, no idea that he was also the key element to my freedom. A pawn in a bet.
I kissed him again, an unspoken apology.
“I’m a monster,” I told him. He smiled, like the three words were a joke, leaning in and pressing his mouth against mine. Hot, hot heat. Our mouths didn’t break apart for what felt like a slow-burning eternity. We were breathless bodies in the all-encompassing night. “We’re both monsters.”
Lover of coffee, reader of classic literature, and the author of STAR-CROSSED (March 2014).
heather27410 says
I have never had a crush on a teacher.
Anita Yancey says
No, I never had a crush on any of my teachers when I was in school. None of my teachers were that good looking.
Rita Luken says
Yes I did, but I was only 12 🙂
kp says
Nope! I went to Catholic school with nuns!!!
starchaser8808 says
Never had a crush on a teacher, they were all old lol Thanks for a great giveaway!
Ashleigh Hazelwood Gross says
I never had a teacher crush 🙁 all of my teachers were old women lol
Daniela Lucero says
Oooh no, nunca me enamore de mi profesor!
Debbie Jensen says
No, I never had any crushes on any of my teachers.
jodi marinich says
i went to catholic school so no they were all nuns
Debbie Talbot says
Yes I had a huge crush on my PE teacher he had gorgeous legs 😉
Carrie Stevens says
no they were all old lol
DJ Sakata says
no – my teachers were old crones
micklovesbooks says
I did once have a crush on a teacher. It was in 7th grade and he was a new teacher, fresh out of college. All the girls in my grade were in love with him. Thanks for the giveaway! Hope to win!
KellyMae Helfrich says
Not really a crush, but he was a younger teacher, good looking (taught Civics) Turns out he went onto being a coach of some sort here and there throughout the NFL. His name Heimerdinger. Yes, that is and was his name. He past away last year or year before.
Rachael Sauve-Cumle says
No teacher crush’s. All my teachers were really OLD, lol 🙂
Zandalee says
I never had a crush on any of my teachers, and I always really wanted to. lol I had a few that were on the younger side and were decent, but not really my type.
Jen says
No I never did have a crush on a teacher. Thanks for the Giveaway!!
Jeanne says
No I never had a crush on a teacher.
Cassandra T. says
nope dont think i ever did but this book sounds amazing. cant wait to read it!
Michelle Huang says
Yes I did had a crush on a teacher until I found out what he did from friends.
Maria (@wildfire_1230) says
No i haven’t
Lola Figueroa says
OMG NO!!!! But one of the girls that I graduated with married one of our teachers!!!!! They got married years after our graduation, have two girls and still going strong!
Gina H says
My high school social studies teacher looked like Richard Gere! I later in life married a teacher and when he makes fun of me because I don’t know my geography or such I always tell him I went to class to see my teach in his Levis! LOL! Can’t wait to read, thanks for the giveaway!
vikbooklover says
I sort of had a crush on my teacher for my English classes. Also at the time there was a rumor going around that he hooked up with a student on a Senior trip lol… so here we go
Kris Knight says
no! Never had any hot teachers just old men!!!! LOL
catlover415 says
Several, Mr. Evans and Mr. Kinder will forever be etched in my schoolgirl brain. Mr. Kinder was exactly 14 years old than me to the day. At 14, it would have been a crime but now..well, it’d be just fine. LOL! Strangely enough, Mr. Kinder left and Mr. Evans was his replacement for History, Social Studies and Boys’ Baseball Team coach
Sonya McAlister says
Thanks For the giveaway. I am afraid I never had a crush on any of my teachers because they weren’t that good looking or were older.
Stacy F says
All of the girls had a crush on our 7th grade Social Studies teacher, he was HOTTTT!!!! 🙂
robyn says
I can’t say that I did because they weren’t that fab looking. They were mostly females and I don’t get into females like that.
Alexa W. says
Nope, never either they were woman or old men, not my type at all.
Anna Kidd says
Thank you for the giveaway! I had innocent crushes on teachers back in High School but it was never serious. (: