With the Lights On: A Sexy Billionaire Romance

Jackie Ashenden

Apr 2021 · Playing for Pleasure Book 2 · Sold by Harlequin

About this ebook

Billionaire Trajan Howard-Smith hides his fading vision well, but he can’t hide his desire for Maggie Burgess in book two of Jackie Ashenden’s Playing for Pleasure duet!

Trajan is the most beautiful man I have ever seen—tall and broad shouldered, with blue eyes that seem to look into my soul. He’s also my client. So I know I shouldn’t have broken our contract by kissing him. That I shouldn’t be falling for him…

I need to say goodbye. But he won’t let me go so easily. One night of pleasure, that’s all he wants. I shouldn’t give in, but his kiss takes my breath away. If I can never see him again, I want one night with a man who means something to me, a man who wants to make my fantasies come true.

My life has not been easy—so I hide beneath a seductive mask. But Trajan wants the real me, and I want to be myself with him. Then Trajan tells me his secret. He’s losing his sight. And I’m shocked at how much I can’t face leaving him alone in the dark…

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Playing for Pleasure

Book 1: In the Dark

Book 2: With the Lights On

Ratings and reviews

WITH THE LIGHTS ON is the second instalment in Jackie Ashenden’s contemporary, adult PLAYING FOR PLEASURE erotic, romance duet. This is billionaire Trajan Howard-Smith, and escort Maggie Burgess’ story line. WITH THE LIGHTS ON can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary. Some of the events of WITH THE LIGHTS ON run parallel to and cross over with the events in book one IN THE DARK. Maggie ‘Honey’ Burgess is best friends with Vesta (In the Dark). Told from dual first person perspectives (Trajan and Maggic) WITH THE LIGHTS ON follows twenty four hours in the life of billionaire Trajan Howard-Smith, and escort Maggie Burgess. Maggie ‘Honey’ Burgess works as an escort for Company of Strangers but has found herself falling for her client Trajan Howard-Smith. Known only as ‘Honey’ to Trajan, Honey had crossed a personal line, and felt it was time to stop seeing the man with whom she was falling in love but Trajan wanted something more,something that included an exclusive arrangement with our story line heroine. Unable to say no, Maggie agreed to one final night, a night where Trajan’s secrets will be revealed, exposing himself for the world to see. The relationship between Maggie aka Honey and Trajan begins as a professional arrangement, an arrangement of friendship only but two weeks before Maggie realized she could no longer remain neutral against her attraction to our story line hero, an attraction of which she struggled to ignore. Trajan wanted something more permanent with his current companion, a permanence that frightened a man whose secrets, once revealed, could never be taken back. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense. WITH THE LIGHTS ON is a story of secrets and fantasies, hope and happiness, revelations, relationships, family and love. the premise is engaging and captivating; the romance is steamy and seductive; the characters are damaged, determined and animated.

About the author

Jackie writes dark, emotional stories with alpha heroes who've just got the world to their liking only to have it blown wide apart by their kick-ass heroines.She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband the inimitable Dr Jax and two kids. When she's not torturing alpha males, she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, wasting time on social media, or forced to mountain biking with her husband.