REVIEW - My Stepbrother, My Escort (The Escort Collection #2) by Leigh James -------- Now called Escorting the Actress

The Book

Release Date: 14 October 2015

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A romantic comedy that puts the "fun" in dysfunctional family. 

Rising actress Lowell Barton has problems… lots of them. 
One night, she tries to solve them with margaritas… lots of them. Unfortunately, she throws them up all over a police officer's shoes. Then a video of the incident shows up all over the Internet. 
Now she needs to do damage control. Fast. What she needs is a story juicy enough to throw off the press. A new boyfriend—a perfect, smoking hot new boyfriend—would be just the thing. 
Unfortunately, it's just the thing she doesn't have. 
Deciding to throw caution to the wind and money at her mounting problems, Lowell hires a date. But when sexy escort Kyle Richards steps out of her past and onto her doorstep, she finds herself in a fresh hell she couldn't have imagined. 

Is he the stepbrother-escort from hell, or just the thing to save her career—and herself? 

Lowell’s about to find out. One thing she knows for sure: only desperate times call for measures this desperate. 

This is a standalone novel with an HEA. You do not have to read the other books in The Escort Collection to enjoy this one.

My Review   4 STARS

**My thanks to Netgalley and the CMG Publishing LLC for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

First off, whoops.  This seems to have been missed from being read for far too many years.... I had benn go back to all the older stuff and read it fast.  Good thing I have been a lot slower at picking up any other ARC's.  I have a mountain to read first lol.

This was a good story.  Lowell is basically a good girl and keeps herself in check even when she was a little girl whilst her mother created all the drama.  Now 22 years old, she is keeping her mother happy and is an up and coming Scarlett, but one drunken incident caught on camera could loose her everything.

Kyle was always a bit of a wild child, especially after the death of his mother when he was seven.  He hated when his father remarried and did not like Lowells mother and found Lowell to be a pain in the butt, especially as she used to tell his father when he had done something naughty.

Finally after his father had cut him off from his trust fund, did Kyle finally find he had to grow up, but with very little to fall back on, he found himself working at an escort service and often having physical relations with woman who paid for him.

When Lowell needs help with her image, she decides to use an escort service and it is a surprise to both of them when they meet on her doorstep.  But it would seem that it is beneficial for both of them.  Kyle is to be paid well and Lowell finds that Kyle is actually very good with the media and public relations.

Of course they fall in love and there is something that tries to split them up and keep them apart, but ultimately they cannot be without each other and they make their worlds that much easier by supporting each others backs and dreams.

I really enjoyed this book.  It had a little spice and a little taboo, but on the whole it was just a well written book with strong characters.