Hot Asset
Lara & Ian’s Love Story
21 Wall Street Series
Book One
About
Ian is a hot shot Wall Street broker whose work hard-play hard philosophy catches up to him when he’s wrongly accused of insider trading and must convince a beautiful SEC agent that he’s more than just a careless playboy.
This book was published by Montlake, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, and is thus exclusive to Amazon.
21 Wall Street
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Lara & Ian
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21 Wall Street · Lara & Ian ·
Some Details
Vibe
Think men in suits, women in high-heels, with an upscale New York City lifestyle with a splash of 90s rom-com energy.
Heat Level
This is a steamy romance novel with explicit sex scenes and spicy language.
POV
This book is written in alternating first person POV.
Tone
The 21 Wall Street series was written as an homage to those classic “billionaire romances” I loved reading when I first discovered the romance genre. Unapologetically modern fairy tales.
Author Note
After I finished the Oxford series, I stretched my wings to write some other stories, though I always found myself missing the “hot guys in suits with lots of bromance banter” stories, so I created a new workplace series featuring “the new Wolves of Wall Street.”
I wanted to do the same as Oxford, but different, so I wrote Hot Asset in first person, and loved taking a cocky playboy at the top of his game, and turning his life upside down.
(I actually appeared on an episode of Inside Edition to talk about this book!)
An Amazon Best Book of the Month ∙ Featured on INside Edition
“Hot Asset by Lauren Layne is a sexy, laugh-out-loud battle of wills between Wall Street’s hottest bachelor and the SEC agent on a mission to turn his playboy lifestyle upside down.”
—PopSugar
Taylor Swift Song Pairing
Treacherous
Tropes & Vibes
Enemies-to-Lovers · Workplace Romance · Rivals · NYC
A Little Excerpt
I step forward. “Have drinks with me.”
“No, thank you.” She sounds almost amused in her rejection.
“Why not?”
“Oh, so many reasons,” she says with a sly smile, as she uses her folder to gesture at my neck. “That fresh hickey, for starters.”
on Book Covers
I’ve made the unusual decision not to show the official book covers on my official author website for a variety of reasons:
Most of my books have multiple cover versions depending on language/country; the US English version is only one of many.
Several of my cover designs were spot-on when they released, but are now quite dated even though the love stories within are timeless.
I have an unwavering love for neutral colors, and elegantly minimalist design. The current rom-com cover trend towards candy colored cartoons is not my jam.
My website is my chance to present my work my way.
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Hot Asset
This book was published by Montlake, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, and is thus exclusive to Amazon.