Part of Wild Seasons
First published 2014
Mia woke up married to a stranger in Las Vegas, and that wild morning became the opening chapter of Sweet Filthy Boy. Now the same hours unfold again, but through different eyes. This audio-exclusive short story runs thirty minutes and drops the reader back into the chaos of that hotel room, the awkward negotiations of two people who did something enormous and impulsive the night before. The tension is small and immediate. Someone has to speak first. Someone has to decide whether to laugh or panic or both. The central question is not whether Ansel and Mia made a mistake. It is what that mistake actually looked like from the other side of the bed. Christina Lauren strips the scene down to its essentials and lets a shift in perspective do all the work. What felt like one kind of story from Mia's point of view turns out to carry a different emotional weight when someone else is doing the remembering. The short closes on the feeling that a single morning can mean completely different things to two people standing in the same room.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: humorous, intimate, introspective, perspective-shifting, tender
Tropes: dual-point-of-view, second-chance-romance, vegas-wedding
Setting: Las Vegas, hotel room
1 pages · Audiobook · Simon & Schuster Audio