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  • First Touch

  • A Novel
  • By: Laurelin Paige
  • Narrated by: Ava Erickson
  • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (585 ratings)

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First Touch

By: Laurelin Paige
Narrated by: Ava Erickson
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Desperate for the Truth. Obsessed by Desire...

Emily Wayborn is finally her own woman. After a string of shameful relationships and reckless partying with her best friend, Amber, she's now a successful voiceover actress, her wild past and everyone in it firmly behind her. Until she receives a cryptic voice mail from her former friend that sends her spiraling into the darkness she thought she had outrun.

One thing is clear from the message: Amber is in trouble. Determined to track down her friend, Emily follows a chain of clues that leads her to Reeve Sallis, a gorgeous and equally dangerous hotelier known for his power games and shady dealings. Now, in order to find Amber, Emily must return to her playgirl ways to uncover his secrets and track down her friend. But as she becomes more entangled with him, she finds she's drawn to Reeve and his depravity despite her growing conviction that he may be the one responsible for Amber's disappearance.

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Great beginning to the story

Love the narration. Story to drawn out. I hope the next book has less indecision from Emily one of the main characters.

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First Touch

Which character – as performed by Ava Erickson – was your favorite?

Ava Erickson did an excellent job capturing and bringing the characters to life.

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First Touch is a dark spellbinding, suspenseful, shocking, intense novel. I just discovered another side to Laurelin Paige's writing. Was on edge and hooked until the last page. I need the next book!

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Audiobook hangover alert!

Wow... this one blew me away!

This was not like my usual contemporary romance fare. It was twisted and dark and there are parts to this story that I'm sure some people just won't like, but I loved it! And a bonus for me was that the narration was on point!

The story is complex and twisted and I loved how the author shared the background to the story in little pieces, each turning the story in a new direction

Emily, the reformed party girl, is searching for her old friend Amber and this brings her on a collision course with the sexy Reeve Sallis. Their interactions are erotica and dark

It does end in a cliffhanger, and I could see it coming, but in the end I welcomed it! I can't wait for the conclusion to this series and it will definitely be one that I will re-listen to again and again in the future

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Intriguing

You definitely want to listen to this one. I usually only listen when I working but this one I could NOT turn it off. I had to know what was happening and what was next. I listened every chance I had, the narrator nailed too. She's giving u her story and u want only good to come of the bad and heartbreak she has been through.

Ready for book 2. Happy reading

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I’m so in love with this book!

Suspense, kink, romance! Yes it was twisted but man this book was an amazing read and listen! Must get

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AN ALL CONSUMING PLOT WITH A DREADED CLIFFHANGER

This is why Laurelin Page is an auto download for me.... she's delivered a story that hooked me right in from the start, filled it with intrigue, secrets, hot sex, passion, mystery, the Greek Mafia and suspense and her characters have depth and detail. In the past Emily, and her best friend Amber, used rich men shamelessly exchanging sex for money, gifts and a roof over their heads... it's always been a reciprocal business arrangement. But with one Sugar Daddy things went horrifically wrong between the two best friends and they fell out with each other. And, for 6 years, Emily has heard nothing from her former friend/party girl/addict Amber.... not until the day she played back her messages and heard Amber's voice giving their private coded message that meant she was in big trouble.

Emily slowly pieced together clues and information about Amber's life that led to the handsome Billionaire Hotelier Reeve Sallis and, in order to infiltrate his world and hopefully get answers, Emily had to orchestrate a 'chance meeting' that would lead to her, once again, becoming a rich man's pampered plaything. But Reeve was no pushover.... he was calculating, complicated, controlling and complex, he had Bodyguards, links with the Greek Mafia, was sexually demanding and dominant, oozed danger and secrets and his life was a closed book to Emily.... he said when, how and where - their relationship was strictly on his terms. However, their chemistry and sexual appetites were totally in synch with each other's and so, after a shaky start, their relationship grew deeper and stronger... but Emily still needed to find answers as to exactly what happened to Amber..... and just how much can she trust Reeve?

There's intrigue as Emily and Reeve play a game of cat and mouse, there's graphic hot sex scenes, there's puzzle pieces to fit together and answers to find that will hopefully lead Emily to Amber but, just as love is about to be declared, a shocking CLIFFHANGER will disrupt, devastate and disturb the balance. And, as the plot was slowly revealed... the mystery deepened, became slippery and took a sinister turn. Told from Emily's POV and the narrator was good.

Worth a credit? Yes - it was entertaining, cryptic and hot.

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Wow, not like Paige’s others, but just as mind blowing

I knew this series is darker than Paige’s others. It’s why I delayed reading it, because I wasn’t sure I was ready for dark. Paige gets deep into really sad and traumatizing situations, and then she creates a beautiful and cathartic experience to open and cope. I don’t mind her dark stuff, in fact, I like it because it allows me to explore situations I never see myself in and have perspective and create opinions and compassion instead of judgment. I’m not sure if this is Paige’s intent with these series, since the bulk of her work is far lighter. But when she goes dark, she doesn’t hold back and I find myself enthralled with the experience and too captured to leave (despite some of it being very sexually dark). This is no exception and I can’t wait for book 2.

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Wow! what a cliffhanger!

Really loved the book. I love Reeve and Emily. Both characters have really developed thru the story. Can't wait to start the next book. I have already downloaded it. I am a big fan of Lauralin Paige. The Fix Series is an absolute favorite of mine. Keep the stories coming please!

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Good Read

I love this book. It's dark and dirty. It keeps you hanging on, dying to know what happens next.

You get to the end and you're like oh shizz. No freaking way and I'm guaranteeing you will download the next book immediately. It's that good.

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Disturbing

I hated this story because of how the writer portrays the female character, Emily has no self esteem whatsoever. She was so fucked up. At times I wanted to stop reading, but was hoping that the writer would redeem her principal character, Emily, yet it never happened. It was though an interesting ending, and my curiosity picked my interest

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