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Barely Legal Series #1
Barely Legal
For Laura Turner, helping others had been her way of coping and forgetting a past so painful, she had to hide it from the ones she loved or risk going insane. Helping her best friend Serena Singleton start a new life free from a dark past, made her feel she was helping herself move forward.
Laura, whose family ran in the same circle as billionaire composer Sebastian Sorensen and lived a life many would envy, had secrets of her own, and it had been years since she’d lived free of the same addiction that consumed her friend Serena.
When Laura moved to Los Angeles to work at a law firm who hired her to start even without her passing the bar, she meets the mysterious and sexy Peter Townshend, whose irresistible charm and take charge personality brings out a part of her she had hidden for years.
Hidden behind a wall of secrets and giving her his orders, she only has his seductive voice to guide her to do his bidding. He knows all her buttons. He knows all about her.
He knows she’s been a bad girl.
He knows good girls do bad things sometimes…even things that are…
Barely Legal.
New Adult Contemporary Romance Suspense Serial that will be 6 books.
This series is a separate series from The Protege Series, but is related.
Laura, whose family ran in the same circle as billionaire composer Sebastian Sorensen and lived a life many would envy, had secrets of her own, and it had been years since she’d lived free of the same addiction that consumed her friend Serena.
When Laura moved to Los Angeles to work at a law firm who hired her to start even without her passing the bar, she meets the mysterious and sexy Peter Townshend, whose irresistible charm and take charge personality brings out a part of her she had hidden for years.
Hidden behind a wall of secrets and giving her his orders, she only has his seductive voice to guide her to do his bidding. He knows all her buttons. He knows all about her.
He knows she’s been a bad girl.
He knows good girls do bad things sometimes…even things that are…
Barely Legal.
New Adult Contemporary Romance Suspense Serial that will be 6 books.
This series is a separate series from The Protege Series, but is related.
125 pages, Paperback
First published June 29, 2014
About the author
Kailin Gow
338 books2,504 followersKailin Gow is an USA Today Bestselling author, publisher, screenwriter, director, producer, and speaker with hundreds of books published. She is also the owner/founder and organizer of mega-book signing events like Rockin' Hollywood, Naughty Mafia in Las Vegas, which has featured the very top authors of Romance and drawn thousands of readers, including being in a documentary film now out on Amazon Prime.
Over 14 Million copies of her books have been downloaded around the world and translated into 25 languages. 2 of her book series, FADE Series and Red Genesis Series, has been optioned by the Academy Award-winning team behind Netflix #1 most Liked and Top 10 Netflix Original Film, Wish Dragon, also the team behind the special effects magic of Star Wars and Marvel films.
Her Worldwide Brand, Kailin Gow's Go Girl has won awards for its tv series, books, cosmetics, fashions, beauty and health products, and soon-to-be home and travel products. As of 2021, Kailin Gow's Go Girl is excited to expand into its own line of hotels, starting with a 70+ room hotel in Texas. In 2022, her books will be adapted into entertainment venues called Sparklesoup World, offered in various locations throughout the U.S. and internationally.
She has been a host on world-class stages, an invited speaker for BEA and a regular radio/TV guest for major stations. She was an official voice of AAPI, She has a TV Reality show on her as an author and personality. She is also the host and publisher of a leading author industry guide, subscription newsletter, and podcast called Authors Voices. Five of her pen names are USA Today Bestselling authors and will be traditionally published in 2022. She is also a recurring speaker/instructor of writing series and serials for professional screenwriters and producers as of 2021.
She was called an "innovating author" and an "Author as Influencer" by Goodreads executives at Book Expo America 2014 in their speech.
Kailin Gow is one of Cindy Crawford's Beauties, who is beautiful on the inside as well as the outside, along with Gabrielle Union.
She was called "a successful author who knows how to balance being an author and life" by Huffington Post. USA Today recommends her steamy romances while PBS Kids have recommended her Teen Fantasy Series.
Amazon highlighted her author success story on the homepage of Amazon.com and in their book, Transformations and was invited by Amazon to be an author spokesperson for Amazon's launch of the Kindle fire in Santa Monica.
In the publishing industry, she has written and presented many articles and workshops for major publications as well as conventions. https://www.fastcompany.com/user/kail...
and is the host/founder of the podcast and newsletter Author Voices. Additionally, she owns a law firm specializing in consumer advocacy.
Kailin Gow holds a Masters degree in Management from USC and degrees in Social Ecology (Psychology, Criminology, Sociology, and Ecology/Climate), Drama, and Film making from UC Irvine where she once ran and DJ for a radio station that helped discovered OC bands like Sugar Ray and Gwen Stefani.
Over 14 Million copies of her books have been downloaded around the world and translated into 25 languages. 2 of her book series, FADE Series and Red Genesis Series, has been optioned by the Academy Award-winning team behind Netflix #1 most Liked and Top 10 Netflix Original Film, Wish Dragon, also the team behind the special effects magic of Star Wars and Marvel films.
Her Worldwide Brand, Kailin Gow's Go Girl has won awards for its tv series, books, cosmetics, fashions, beauty and health products, and soon-to-be home and travel products. As of 2021, Kailin Gow's Go Girl is excited to expand into its own line of hotels, starting with a 70+ room hotel in Texas. In 2022, her books will be adapted into entertainment venues called Sparklesoup World, offered in various locations throughout the U.S. and internationally.
She has been a host on world-class stages, an invited speaker for BEA and a regular radio/TV guest for major stations. She was an official voice of AAPI, She has a TV Reality show on her as an author and personality. She is also the host and publisher of a leading author industry guide, subscription newsletter, and podcast called Authors Voices. Five of her pen names are USA Today Bestselling authors and will be traditionally published in 2022. She is also a recurring speaker/instructor of writing series and serials for professional screenwriters and producers as of 2021.
She was called an "innovating author" and an "Author as Influencer" by Goodreads executives at Book Expo America 2014 in their speech.
Kailin Gow is one of Cindy Crawford's Beauties, who is beautiful on the inside as well as the outside, along with Gabrielle Union.
She was called "a successful author who knows how to balance being an author and life" by Huffington Post. USA Today recommends her steamy romances while PBS Kids have recommended her Teen Fantasy Series.
Amazon highlighted her author success story on the homepage of Amazon.com and in their book, Transformations and was invited by Amazon to be an author spokesperson for Amazon's launch of the Kindle fire in Santa Monica.
In the publishing industry, she has written and presented many articles and workshops for major publications as well as conventions. https://www.fastcompany.com/user/kail...
and is the host/founder of the podcast and newsletter Author Voices. Additionally, she owns a law firm specializing in consumer advocacy.
Kailin Gow holds a Masters degree in Management from USC and degrees in Social Ecology (Psychology, Criminology, Sociology, and Ecology/Climate), Drama, and Film making from UC Irvine where she once ran and DJ for a radio station that helped discovered OC bands like Sugar Ray and Gwen Stefani.
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July 6, 2014
Huge cliffhanger.
My advice is don't read this book unless you're going to continue on with the rest of this series, in ends on a huge cliffhanger, the next book is out now at 77p for 74 pages so it's not unreasonable but this is a series of 6 books and provided they're priced the same you're looking at £3.85 to finish this story.
The first time I noticed this book I passed it by assuming from the title that it was just a young girl, older man sex book, I'd just finished a book that was a little similar and I hadn't been impressed so I passed it by but the next time I flicked through the free list I noticed it had a 5 star review, I read the review and the blurb and decided I'd been hasty in ignoring in and decided to give it a go.
Laura Turner is a young hardworking good looking young woman she's just sat the bar exam and wants to become a lawyer more than anything. There's some mystery involving the death of someone called Michael and Laura being in the wrong place at the wrong time, she receives a mysterious text telling her to be at a certain place at a certain time if she wants to save her name and her career.
This is the first book I've read by this author and I have to say it had me hooked early on, it was setting up to be a really good read but then the last quarter of the book goes a little crazy, there's so much thrown in there, too much too soon for me, so while I could see the potential, and if the book had finished like it started I might have continued on although I do hate these short books which just tease you to buy the rest and this I think is the main problem with this, everything about this book is designed to make you buy the next book, you're given bits of information, just enough to make you continue reading, just enough enough to get you hooked and to be honest it was working until the mad onslaught at the end and then I'd just had enough, shame really because I enjoyed the first part which is the reason I've given 3 stars.
My advice is don't read this book unless you're going to continue on with the rest of this series, in ends on a huge cliffhanger, the next book is out now at 77p for 74 pages so it's not unreasonable but this is a series of 6 books and provided they're priced the same you're looking at £3.85 to finish this story.
The first time I noticed this book I passed it by assuming from the title that it was just a young girl, older man sex book, I'd just finished a book that was a little similar and I hadn't been impressed so I passed it by but the next time I flicked through the free list I noticed it had a 5 star review, I read the review and the blurb and decided I'd been hasty in ignoring in and decided to give it a go.
Laura Turner is a young hardworking good looking young woman she's just sat the bar exam and wants to become a lawyer more than anything. There's some mystery involving the death of someone called Michael and Laura being in the wrong place at the wrong time, she receives a mysterious text telling her to be at a certain place at a certain time if she wants to save her name and her career.
This is the first book I've read by this author and I have to say it had me hooked early on, it was setting up to be a really good read but then the last quarter of the book goes a little crazy, there's so much thrown in there, too much too soon for me, so while I could see the potential, and if the book had finished like it started I might have continued on although I do hate these short books which just tease you to buy the rest and this I think is the main problem with this, everything about this book is designed to make you buy the next book, you're given bits of information, just enough to make you continue reading, just enough enough to get you hooked and to be honest it was working until the mad onslaught at the end and then I'd just had enough, shame really because I enjoyed the first part which is the reason I've given 3 stars.
July 3, 2014
I did not like this book. I felt like she spent most of the book talking and thinking to herself. the book does have potential but I just felt like you are really left to piece things together.....it would have been OK if the story was completed in one book. I just could not get interested. who really is going to get off with a tie to a stranger talking to you on the phone, that you have never seen!?! Talk about EASY! not to mention there's nothing telling you actually what happened with Michael and how she is tied into it exactly.
it just has too many gaps for me
it just has too many gaps for me
October 11, 2014
I felt there was too much going on with this book and not enough answers. Due to lack of background some of Laura's thoughts made no sense or just seemed like we were given irrelevant information as we didn't know who or what she was talking about. Due to events it's like the book is actually 2 different stories and in honesty I'm seriously confused. I'll read book 2 but am unsure if I'll finish the series.
January 21, 2025
I don't know if there is an update that I missed or what is going on, but the item description here is different that what was offered on Amazon (book is no longer available according to my link, so I'm guessing this is a description of an updated book).
I would describe this as "barely readable." The editing is spotty, there's tons of backstory that apparently happened in other books (culminating in a final chapter where a bunch of characters just show up and spew exposition about what has apparently already taken place), and overall it's unfulfilling, dull, implausible, and ends with a cliffhanger. If the neighbor you just met knocked on your door and told you a long and uncomfortably detailed account of how they'd just been sexually assaulted by their date, would you tell them to wait in your apartment while you went over there to confront the guy?
I would describe this as "barely readable." The editing is spotty, there's tons of backstory that apparently happened in other books (culminating in a final chapter where a bunch of characters just show up and spew exposition about what has apparently already taken place), and overall it's unfulfilling, dull, implausible, and ends with a cliffhanger. If the neighbor you just met knocked on your door and told you a long and uncomfortably detailed account of how they'd just been sexually assaulted by their date, would you tell them to wait in your apartment while you went over there to confront the guy?
June 29, 2014
Laura Turner has just finished law school. After years of studying and having no social life, or sleep for that matter, she’s finally ready to put her skills to work. Except there’s one thing that’s stopping her. There was an accident, I believe, where she was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and now when the story gets out, the press is going to frame her as a killer. A sex-crazed, Domme who killed her submissive.
After receiving a cryptic text message from someone who goes by “P”, she drives out to Las Angeles only to find herself in an empty office with a sexy as sin voice demanding her to go to the apartment across the street. The voice identifies himself as Peter Townshend; that’s all the information she gets.
Once in the apartment, she finds herself surrounded in luxury. Clothes made specifically for her, lush carpets and a beautiful bedroom. Her neighbor is even perfect; she’s nice and Laura feels an instant connection to her.
This short novella is one full of trickery, deceit, and twists and turns. This is the second novella of Kailin’s I’ve read today and I’m not happy with how either ended. They both end of horrible cliffhangers. I will say that I liked this one more than the Blue Room Vol. 1, though.
I was drawn in from the beginning. The vague text message promising to help Laura save her reputation only gave the illusion of more suspense to come. And this book is full of it. I may not be emotionally attached to the characters, but I will give Kailin some points on knowing how to keep one on their toes.
Overall I give this novella four stars. I am really mad about the cliffhanger ending. I didn’t know that this was the first in a series. So, watch out. I don’t often complain about cliffhangers, but I was totally into this one. And I read it as a paperback, so I thought there was more, because there were more pages, but they were just acknowledgments and stuff.
Anyways, I will probably be picking up the next novella in this six book series. It was pretty good.
After receiving a cryptic text message from someone who goes by “P”, she drives out to Las Angeles only to find herself in an empty office with a sexy as sin voice demanding her to go to the apartment across the street. The voice identifies himself as Peter Townshend; that’s all the information she gets.
Once in the apartment, she finds herself surrounded in luxury. Clothes made specifically for her, lush carpets and a beautiful bedroom. Her neighbor is even perfect; she’s nice and Laura feels an instant connection to her.
This short novella is one full of trickery, deceit, and twists and turns. This is the second novella of Kailin’s I’ve read today and I’m not happy with how either ended. They both end of horrible cliffhangers. I will say that I liked this one more than the Blue Room Vol. 1, though.
I was drawn in from the beginning. The vague text message promising to help Laura save her reputation only gave the illusion of more suspense to come. And this book is full of it. I may not be emotionally attached to the characters, but I will give Kailin some points on knowing how to keep one on their toes.
Overall I give this novella four stars. I am really mad about the cliffhanger ending. I didn’t know that this was the first in a series. So, watch out. I don’t often complain about cliffhangers, but I was totally into this one. And I read it as a paperback, so I thought there was more, because there were more pages, but they were just acknowledgments and stuff.
Anyways, I will probably be picking up the next novella in this six book series. It was pretty good.
June 28, 2014
This new novella series from Kailin Gow definitely has me intrigued and can't wait for the next in the series.
The mysterious Peter Townshend has called Laura Taylor to his law offices. He says he can help her. Save her career before it even gets started. Laura was at the wrong place at the wrong time and all of her hard work will go down the drain without the help of Peter Townshend. The only thing is PT knows how to push her buttons, to make her hot and heavy... although she has never truly met him. Only his voice has been guiding her. Laura follows his instructions, but before she gets the chance to meet Peter face to face...her past is intruding and could put a stop to Peter's plan before it even gets started.
The mysterious Peter Townshend has called Laura Taylor to his law offices. He says he can help her. Save her career before it even gets started. Laura was at the wrong place at the wrong time and all of her hard work will go down the drain without the help of Peter Townshend. The only thing is PT knows how to push her buttons, to make her hot and heavy... although she has never truly met him. Only his voice has been guiding her. Laura follows his instructions, but before she gets the chance to meet Peter face to face...her past is intruding and could put a stop to Peter's plan before it even gets started.
October 5, 2014
Hmm....let me start by saying that this really and honestly felt like reading the first chapter or two of a book and someone forgot to finish it or clean it up.
There is so much going on that really you have no idea what is going on. Its really scattered. Does it have potential to be seriously good? yes! but I guess i'll wait for more to maybe clear up and start putting the story together better.
There is so much going on that really you have no idea what is going on. Its really scattered. Does it have potential to be seriously good? yes! but I guess i'll wait for more to maybe clear up and start putting the story together better.
October 29, 2014
Barely Legal did not draw me in. It also did not help that there are cliffhangers. I personally wish author's would stay away from doing this. The main character just kept going on and it came across as being self-centered. If you are in to cliffhangers, then this book is for you. This author has potential should she choose to write a complete novel.
April 24, 2014
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June 30, 2014
Kailin Gow bring yet another good novella that has romance and a thrill to the table that's intriguing and keeps you wandering... "What's next?" This is the second book I have read from this wonderful author and can't wait to read more!
July 3, 2014
Good start
I like the characters in the first series. It's going to be different reading from this pov. I think it will get better the more the story moves along.
I like the characters in the first series. It's going to be different reading from this pov. I think it will get better the more the story moves along.
July 23, 2014
Sorry but this book is a mess. Series or not, even a short story should be a story. It's like reading the 1st chapter of a a book with a whole lot of ideas but zero resolution.
August 9, 2014
This book intrigued me from the beginning. It has secrets, darkness, and mystery. It leaves you wanting more.
October 20, 2014
Ummm....not for me let's leave it at that
July 15, 2015
hard to follow
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