Eighty-One Nights

By: Georgia Cates

Narrated by: Kurt Crossan, Natalie Easton

Beautiful, penniless American girl meets handsome, wealthy Scotsman.
Sounds like the beginning of a fairy-tale romance?
It's not.

This story begins with a contract.
And an exchange of money.
A lot of money.

An angel perches nervously on one shoulder.
A devil lounges smugly on my other.
And even that dark little bastard is leery of what I'm doing.

Maxwell Hutcheson wants the girlfriend experience.
All of it.
And I'm going to give it to him.

I'm not supposed to enjoy being his whore.
I'm also not supposed to fall in love with him.
But I do. Both.

When our contract expires, I will walk away.
Because I have to.
But he'll always have a piece of me.

I'll mask my sorrow with a smile.
I'll hide my love with indifference
...all while it's killing me softly.

A fairy-tale romance.
It isn't mine to have.
And this man I've come to love so dearly isn't my happily ever after.

Eighty-One Nights is Book One of two in a duet.

About Eighty-One Nights: While the characters from Eighty-One Nights are entirely new, their storyline is a combination of fresh material and carefully selected themes, scenes, and settings from The Beauty Series, The Sin Trilogy, Dear Agony, and Indulge. This is intentional. I chose some of my favorite elements from previous releases and interjected them into Hutch and Lou's story. Let's call it a "story fusion" between our old favorites and new material.

©2019 Georgia Cates Books, LLC (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

Not what I expected

I think that I thought that this book was something entirely different. I was expecting a dark storyline, and this was anything but. I might have enjoyed it more if I didn't have that expectation, but I'm not sure. As it is, I was pretty bored by it, but will continue on just to finish the duet.

Perfect No Strings Attached

I love that the main idea from this book is similar to Georgia's Beauty Series but still I loved it. Kurt Crossan and Natalie Easton were really able to capture Max & Cait and their emotions that I felt I was in the book with them. And then Georgia Cates does her magic with her writing. I absolutely loved it.

Phenomenal book

Any book by Georgia Cates is a book you’ll always devour and crave more. Eighty-One Nights is no exception. This story is unique, scorching hot, and consuming. I devoured this story in one day and am desperate for more. It was everything you want in a story and more. The story is so extraordinary and incredibly wonderful I may need to re-read it again ASAP.

Maxwell Hutcheson and Caitriona Brooke Louden

*****SPOILER ALERT*****

Eighty-one Nights by Georgia Cates. Beautiful Illusions duet, book one. Audiobook review. Dual POV. Dual narration. Eleven year age gap, paid relationship widower/single father and college student for hire romance. Cliffhanger. The audiobook is listed as 8 hours 17 minutes; I listened at speed 2.50 for 3 hours 18 minutes. The last 26 minutes of the recording is a preview of book two. Narrators Natalie Easton and Kurt Crossanboth did a great job reading with both American and Scottish accents. Wind noise throughout Natalie Easton's narration. Content warnings: cheating; two car accidents; child born to a brain dead mom who cheated on her husband and had another man's baby; pr0st¡tut¡on; attack and stalking by the son of the owner of the escort service.

Caitriona Brooke Louden (22; aka Cat/Lou) was sixteen and living in New Orleans when her mom died forcing her to move to Scotland to live with her father and stepmother. Her stepmother convinced her father to kick her out of their home and stop paying for her college tuition 2 semesters short of her degree. She and her roommate worked in a bar where she met her first boyfriend, he cheated on her, she found out her roommate had been working as an escort to make extra money and decided to check it out. Her first night the madame introduced her to Maxwell Hutcheson (33; aka Max/Hutch) who was recently widowed and left with his cheating wife's daughter. He was in the process of filing for divorce before she had a car accident and was left brain dead, not long after she was found to be pregnant. Since none of their friends or family knew of their marital discord and her cheating he chose to keep it a secret. Convinced his family and friends wouldn't approve of him finding a relationship within 6 months of his wife's death he decided to utilize an escort service recommended by his best friend where he met and contracted Lou to "date" him for 81 days. They both fell in love but his wife's sister told Lou she would destroy Maxwell if she didn't get out of his life so she left him. Maxwell tries to find her but doesn't know her real name. JP

3 out of 5 on my spice scale.

1st read 2019
1st listen 2021
2nd listen 03-02-26

So Good

This book was so good. Fascinating story. Characters to connect with. Some mystery. Sexy times. Sweet moments. So good, I’m moving right on to book two!