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Trashy Foreplay: A Forbidden Romance (Trashy Affair Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Gemma James (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 2,772 ratings
He's flying home to confront his cheating wife.
She's running from her life in shame.
Neither expected to fall in love 35,000 feet in the air.

With my heart and reputation in ruins, I can't afford to make another mistake. Boarding a flight to Seattle is supposed to give me a clean slate, but from the moment Cash Montgomery slides into the seat next to mine, I'm captivated by his steel eyes that see too much. I ache for this stranger in a way I've never ached for anyone.

But I didn't know he was married, and I sure as hell didn't see the curveball fate had in store. My clean slate in Seattle isn't so clean after all because my new boss is the man forbidden to me.

And the only man I want.

The only man I'll do anything for, even if it means breaking the promise I made to myself when I fled my old life in shame.

I wasn't supposed to fall for a married man, but I did.

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Trashy Foreplay is a steamy forbidden romance suitable for mature audiences only. Though the subject matter deals with adultery, there are no innocent parties here. Book 1 in the Trashy Affair duet.
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    August 3, 2017
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  1. “Just so you know,” he says, sliding a hand along my cheek. “I’ve never wanted to kiss someone as much as I want to kiss you right now.”
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  3. He tangles his fingers into my locks, leaving me trembling and aching to feel his mouth on mine. I can’t speak, so I don’t even try. “Jules…I don’t normally do stuff like this.” “Do what?” “Kiss strangers on planes.”
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"Angsty, sexy, and intense, Trashy Foreplay is everything a contemporary romance should be! I couldn't put it down." ~ Anna Zaires, New York Times Bestselling Author
"Absolute deliciousness. Steamy, sizzling and intense, just the way I like it. Can't wait for Book 2!" ~ Nashoda Rose, New York Times Bestselling Author
"Trashy Foreplay was a deliciously dirty tale that kept me up into the late hours. I could not step away from such an emotional sexy read. One of the best summer reads this year! Sizzling!" ~ Alta Hensley, USA Today Bestselling Author
"Fast paced and brimming with emotion, this book has easily landed on my favorite reads of 2017!" ~ Lina's Reviews
"This forbidden story is so full of passion loaded with all the emotions that you can actually feel down to your soul." ~ Lisa, Goodreads Reviewer
"Gemma James delivers a 5 star, page turning goodness of a forbidden story that got under my skin from the very first page!!" ~ Sam, Goodreads Reviewer
"I finished this book in one sitting - Trashy Foreplay was hot, forbidden and the sexual tension could be felt in each word" ~ Elizabeth, White Hot Reads
"The tension, chemistry, and overwhelming need in this book is off the charts hot." ~ Sweet Spot Sisterhood
"This is one forbidden love story you really don't want to miss out on!" ~ Books & Boys Blog
"Five Addictive Stars!" ~ Alpha Book Club
"Highly addictive story...could not put it down!!" ~ Fun Under the Covers Book Blog

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B072JGW3PP
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 3, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.7 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 294 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Gemma James is a USA Today bestselling author of sexy contemporary and dark romance. She loves to explore the darker side of human nature in her fiction, and she’s morbidly curious about anything dark and edgy, from deviant seduction to fascinating villains. Readers have described her stories as being “not for the faint of heart.”

She warns you to heed their words! Her playground isn’t full of rainbows and kittens, though she loves both. She lives in Florida with her husband, children, and a gaggle of animals.

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Customers find the book's storyline wonderful and well-written, with fabulous characters and intense emotions throughout. Moreover, the steamy content receives positive feedback for its off-the-charts heat. However, the pacing receives mixed reactions, with some finding it pretty fast-paced while others say it's a little slow. Additionally, opinions about the book's trashy nature are mixed.

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99 customers mention "Story quality"91 positive8 negative

Customers love the story quality of the book, describing it as amazing and wonderful, with one customer noting it keeps them reading and wanting more.

"...I LOVED the dual POV's. She gave us a fabulous story with a wonderful plot twist, and a rollercoaster of emotions...." Read more

"...I love these characters, their instant chemistry and their fast growing love...." Read more

"...The story made me laugh and cry. The sexual tension Burns and crackles! The ending has me anticipating what might happen next and I long for more." Read more

"...Their strong sexual attraction to each other has only intensified anything after Jules is hired...." Read more

28 customers mention "Writing quality"24 positive4 negative

Customers find the book well-written and easy to read, with several mentioning they finished it in one sitting.

"...Gemma’s writing style is captivating. I LOVED the dual POV's...." Read more

"...I enjoy the way she writes and her characters are instantly likable!..." Read more

"This book is well written and interesting...." Read more

"The writing is good. The story is classic, but there is at least one affair going on...." Read more

18 customers mention "Character development"18 positive0 negative

Customers praise the characters in the book, with one noting the author's talent in making them believable.

"...I love these characters, their instant chemistry and their fast growing love...." Read more

"...The characters are complex, beautifully human, and captivating. The story made me laugh and cry. The sexual tension Burns and crackles!..." Read more

"...I enjoy the way she writes and her characters are instantly likable!..." Read more

"This book is well written and interesting. The chemistry between characters is great and the self control between them are a little too much to..." Read more

14 customers mention "Emotion level"14 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the emotional depth of the book, describing it as intense and angsty, with one customer highlighting the passionate connection between Cash and Jules.

"...gave us a fabulous story with a wonderful plot twist, and a rollercoaster of emotions. Trashy Foreplay is a definite must read...." Read more

"...Highly recommended for the angst, the flair, the beauty of Gemma James words bringing this story to light. Sublimely seductive...." Read more

"...It gives us the reader the ability to follow and feel all the emotions. The struggles and emotions and how this couple are challenged are real...." Read more

"...There is so much emotion between Cash and Jules and I felt their torture and their passion." Read more

10 customers mention "Steamy content"10 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the steamy content of the book, describing it as hot and breathless with off-the-charts heat.

"Add this to your - steamy, passion and spice, and hot characters, to your reading list. Keeps you on the edge of your fingertips!..." Read more

"Will make you hot between the thighs, aching for release as much as Cash and Jules do in this sexy tension filled tale! Yum!!!" Read more

"...Passion, intrigue, off the charts heat with steamy scenes that kept me glued to find out what happened next! Couldn't put the book down." Read more

"This story was hot, exciting, and gripping. I love the resistance and development of the characters. I cant wait to dive into the next book!" Read more

9 customers mention "Trashy foreplay"4 positive5 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the book's trashy content, with some enjoying it while others find it cliched and lacking in foreplay scenes.

"...From a technical point of view, Trashy Foreplay is as cliched and overdone as you can get...." Read more

"A nice trashy romance that sucked me in. Finished it in a day and looking forward to the next one." Read more

"...Trashy ? No.... try full of angst ridden lust til chapter 24 out of 28 when Cash finally cant take it anymore and just has to have her........." Read more

"Good enough story, likeable characters. Not really trashy, and I'm okay with that." Read more

8 customers mention "Enjoyment"4 positive4 negative

Customers have mixed feelings about the book, with some finding it good and trashy, while others express disappointment.

"I would have to say I am really enjoying this duet. As much as I HATE cheating I just had to read this book. Gemma James’s words just pull you in...." Read more

"...However it was not very trashy to have to title trashy. Jules actually was pretty demure after learning from her mistakes...." Read more

"...Once you have a tight, enjoyable, well-edited story, then go back and add the sex, which should be thought of as the spice in the story, not the..." Read more

"By far not my favorite book by Gemma. Her other work is better. This was to soft, I guess I like her more gritty, hard novels." Read more

7 customers mention "Pacing"4 positive3 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the book, with some finding it pretty fast while others say it's a little slow.

"...We have to talk cliff hangers – because Trashy Foreplay has one. It’s quick...." Read more

"I'm enjoying this book, but the pace is a little slow for my tastes...." Read more

"...That’s when fate steps in. I loved this book. It was beautifully paced and never a dull page. The chemistry is insanely molten...." Read more

"...I wish I hadn’t. It was a good book, but slow. The entire story could have been told in one book." Read more

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  • Cindy Gibson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Intense, Sinful, and Forbidden!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2017
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    Trashy Foreplay is the first book in the Trashy Affairs series. This book is intense, sinful, and a forbidden slow burn. I don't normally enjoy books with cheating. However I devoured Trashy Foreplay, and wanted more!!

    Jules messed up. Slept with her married boss, yet she can't seem to remember the incident. She's determined to NEVER let it happen again. Then she meets Cash Montgomery on a plane to Seattle.

    Cash and Jules have such an intense insta-lust connection. There was so much heat, passion, and angst between them. Yet, I found myself rooting for both Jules and Cash. Even knowing Cash is married. We learn his wife is definitely hiding a BIG secret!

    Gemma’s writing style is captivating. I LOVED the dual POV's. She gave us a fabulous story with a wonderful plot twist, and a rollercoaster of emotions. Trashy Foreplay is a definite must read. I am soooo looking forward to Trashy Conquest. I really need to know what happens to Cash and Jules.

    *I voluntarily read an ARC from the author. This is my honest review.*
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  • Merry Jelks- Emmanuel
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great Story
    Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2021
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    Cash and Jules meet 3500 feet in the air. The connection is a powerful one Cash looks into Jules eyes and he sees the pain that he is experiencing. They are both the products of failed relationships but the feelings that pass between them are undeniable. Will they be able to act on their feelings given the circumstances. They both want breaks from their past but will it come given the situation Cash finds when he returns home?
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  • Sharon Thérèse
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sublimely Seductive.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2017
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    Reviewed by Klaire Sutherland on behalf of KFF

    Oh my word, Gemma James…what did you write lady?

    When I signed up for Trashy Foreplay, I did so with great trepidation. The last book I read from Gemma James was from the Condemned series; dark, twisty books that assuaged my palette for reading. I loved those books, and still they remain among one of my favourite series. I was wary about reading her New Adult work in case it disappointed. I knew it was different but the irresistible pull of this author, and the way she writes, pulled me in.

    I hoovered the first chapter, falling in love again with the way this author so eloquently writes. I was immersed in the feels and the emotions that were emoted through her character, Jules, who we meet first. Then in walks Cash, equally emotive and just as devastated as Jules. From the moment they meet, you feel it, and you just know Trashy Foreplay is going to drag you through the ringer. There’s nothing trashy about this novel. Nothing. I’m not recapping the story here, you need to read it and make up your own mind.

    From a technical point of view, Trashy Foreplay is as cliched and overdone as you can get. But Gemma James takes the plot and absolutely owns it, makes it her own. The book put me a little in mind of Mo Mabie’s Bait. That’s not to say it’s a carbon copy, because it’s not, the book is so far from it. However, Gemma James writes some exquisite angst that rivals Bait, another book I loved for this very reason. I fought to find the right words to describe how I felt through many of the chapters. Watching Jules and Cash struggle had me feeling hopeless on occasions. Despair – it’s the only word to sum up a large portion of my feelings while reading.

    We have to talk cliff hangers – because Trashy Foreplay has one. It’s quick. There’s a phenomenal high, luring the reader into a false sense of security – them boom! It all comes tumbling down in true cliffy style. And this is where my 4.5 review comes in. Trashy Foreplay was riding the coat tails of five shiny stars until the very last sentence. Not because it was a cliff hanger, no. I love a good one. More so the fact that I felt it was weak, too tame and didn’t seem in keeping with the book. Any other author and I’d say they lacked courage to pull out the big guns but not this author. Gemma James has the guts to twist a reader sideways and isn’t afraid to do it, nor think twice. So, the cliff hanger confused me until I sat and thought about it in terms of follow through to the next book. I get it, I do. There’s much more to that story thread. Still, it didn’t sit so well with me.

    Trashy Foreplay is a book you will devour and despair over. Gemma James stabs her inked pen into your heart a time or two before you reach the end. I understand why this book was difficult to write but boy, oh boy did the author absolutely nail it. If you pick up on the subtle hints and twists woven between the obvious then you’ve done well and I see no reason why you won’t be champing at the bit for round two. I know I am.

    Highly recommended for the angst, the flair, the beauty of Gemma James words bringing this story to light. Sublimely seductive. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
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  • Why
    3.0 out of 5 stars Aaaaaaaaaaaa,this goes into my,”I wanted to like this but.....” file
    Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2019
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    Ok,
    from title and the cover and the desc.,I thought I was getting ,two ppl with off the charts chemistry and an amazing connection that right or wrong just had to have each other...
    And even though they were cheating like them you didn’t want to care because they has this connection that just couldn’t be denied....
    Only, they did .... more or less repeatedly... they’d hem,and they’d haw, agonize and apologize... they’d lust and they’d want.. walk away and then rinse and repeat...
    They . Weren’t. Trashy.
    They. Were. Agnsty and Annoying!

    Now for me two paths would have been ok here...
    Path one) like I said, one where they met on the airplane and have this instant electrifying mental, emotional, physical connection that just couldn’t be denied and either on the plane it’s self as they flirt and tease and get to know each other or later soon after deplaning they quickly go down the rabbit hole in a nearly hotel or definitely they go down it the next time they meet three weeks later...
    If the “trashy” had started later at her interview to work for him, because they wanted,needed or desired each other soo badly and had each other on his couch or desk or personal bathroom and said to hades with the repercussions we’ll deal with then later and did... that would have been great,and probably fun and exciting and sexy...
    Or
    Path two, this would be where they met had all that exciting explosive electrifying chemistry and attraction and connection and yet when they discussed the fact he’s married and then went their separate ways,they always left it to “fate” to bring back together... ⚠️ possible spoilers ⚠️
    Soo when they see each other again for her job interview the h is smart and DOESN’T take the job.... maybe goes back to her friend and works at a Seattle cliche ( a coffee shop) and finds ways to start a new life w/out a married man she doesn’t want to let herself have... meanwhile the H at the very least moves out of the penthouse he shares w/his already cheating wife he doesn’t really want and we wait to see how fate/the writer will bring the two MC’s back together again... while we see both learn and grow and evolve as the get closer and closer to each other ...
    Either way to me could have been amazing...
    But we don’t get the red hot route of path one or the slower slightly cold of path two...
    No, we get the lukewarm B S of a third path... they meet and agonize, and want and lust, swinging back and forth between lust and guilt and angst and anger for over a month when the h foolishly takes the job w/the married man she’s deeply in lust with.... she doesn’t seem to do much but go to work and drool over him for 86% of the book... same with him... neither want to move backwards but their not really moving forwards either...
    Trashy ? No.... try full of angst ridden lust til chapter 24 out of 28 when Cash finally cant take it anymore and just has to have her......
    Sigh.... I didn’t really care anymore,these two constantly pushed the other away but he didn’t even try to leave his ‘wife”,coz as usual “it’s complicated “... yeah, sure...
    And Jules didn’t even try to start a real life there in Seattle that didn’t revolve around Cash in some way, shape or form...
    The title and the cover and desc. do NOT paint a true picture here and I didn’t enjoy what I got instead...
    Hey,I’m NOT a fan of cheaters ..... at all..I’m funny about that...
    The moment my guy meets his girl/h he loses me if he sleeps w/another woman... and he better have a dang good reason if he does... I didn’t like Cash letting his wife going down on him late in the book... but if these two had had a out of control passion I could feel I could and would have bought into it.... but after the third or forth time they’ve pushed the other away just to go home and moon over the other to just rinse and repeat it,they lost me...
    Read if you want but I can’t recommend...
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  • Diane Kitevski
    5.0 out of 5 stars Magical, Intense Attraction
    Reviewed in Australia on August 14, 2024
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    This love story between Cash and Jules is so intense it is difficult to put the book down. They are torn up because it seems that they are forbidden to love one another because of his personal situation. I can’t wait to find out how it sorts itself out, or not.
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  • Moiz
    4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and sexy read!!!
    Reviewed in India on April 12, 2019
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    A superb book by Gemma. Simply beautiful. Nice portray of holding of desires within the limits and then crossing all the limits at the right time.!!!
    Beautiful choice of words and Beautiful way of showing that sex is not just sex, but making love emotionally at the same time. Good work Gemma.
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  • Mersaydese
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good so so so good !!!!
    Reviewed in Canada on October 5, 2020
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    It’s not just an average affair ! It’s almost a forbidden love. So many emotions through this book ! I love Gemma’s style of writing !! Told in both character’s POV . I love this two part series!!
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  • raph
    3.0 out of 5 stars Bon livre
    Reviewed in France on December 29, 2019
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    Bon livre
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  • Sandra
    5.0 out of 5 stars Trashy foreplay
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2023
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    I loved this book, I can't wait to start reading book 2 to follow the story, I haven't been able to put the book down, I'm not giving you any clues on the story, all i!l day is read this book it's brilliant
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