Love the One You're With

Love the One You're With A Sex, Love & Stiletto Novel

Lauren Layne2013
Lauren Layne’s Sex, Love & Stiletto series simmers to a boil as two high-powered magazine writers find love amid a war of words. As a leading columnist for Stiletto, Grace Brighton has built a career warning women about rotten, cheating liars. She just never suspected her fiancé would be one of them. After Grace takes a heart-mending hiatus, her first assignment is to go on a couple of dates with a counterpart from the men’s magazine Oxford and report her impressions. Grace 1.0 may have been instantly smitten with the gorgeous correspondent, but Grace 2.0 has sworn off relationships for six months, and she’s not falling for his outstanding bod and trophy-winning kisses . . . or is she? Jake Malone wants to get back to the fly-by-night, who-knows-what’s-next guy he used to be, and he knows exactly how to do it. Oxford is adding a travel section, and Jake—with no wife and no kids and a willingness to live anywhere, eat anything, do everything—is perfect for the job . . . except that his playboy reputation makes his new editor nervous. To get the gig, he must agree to a fluffy joint article with Stiletto. But after just one date with snooty, sumptuous, sensational Grace Brighton, Jake starts taking this assignment a whole lot more seriously. Praise for Love the One You’re With “Spunky, flirty, and full of sass, Love the One You’re With is everything a romance should be! Lauren Layne has a winner.”—New York Times bestselling author Christie Craig “A sparkling romance for any woman who’s ever reinvented herself . . . or wants to.”—Stephanie Bond, bestselling author of Stop the Wedding! Lauren Layne’s New York Times bestselling Oxford Novel series can be read in any order: IRRESISTIBLY YOURS I WISH YOU WERE MINE SOMEONE LIKE YOU I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE I THINK I LOVE YOU Don’t miss any of Lauren Layne’s hot reads: The Love Unexpectedly series: BLURRED LINES | GOOD GIRL | LOVE STORY | WALK OF SHAME | AN EX FOR CHRISTMAS The Sex, Love & Stiletto series: AFTER THE KISS | LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH | JUST ONE NIGHT | THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE The Redemption series: ISN’T SHE LOVELY | BROKEN | CRUSHED The I Do, I Don’t series: READY TO RUN | RUNAWAY GROOM Includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.
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sam@sammiev
4 stars
Aug 14, 2023

two rival writers competing to win each other's hearts OH IM UP

grace and jake are perfect for each other! their banter and chemistry CHEFS KISSES

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celene@recluseperformer
3 stars
Jan 23, 2023

3.5

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cris 🫀@crislvsbooks
3 stars
Sep 19, 2022

grace 1.0 and grace 2.0 was so annoying:( but i love gracejake <3

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diana@enchanted
4 stars
Sep 16, 2022

AAAAAAAH THIS WAS SO CUTE

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cam@clayolivia
4 stars
Aug 18, 2022

AMO A ESTA GENTE X2 JAKEGRACE SUPREMACY

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Inês Filipa@inesfilipa6
4 stars
Aug 18, 2022

*4,25 stars ohhh this was one even better than the first one! also, i cannot contain myself with excitement about cassidy and emma!!

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brooke@brookecoll
5 stars
Aug 17, 2022

gracejake are everything to me

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mahi@adrianslia
5 stars
Aug 17, 2022

may be my favorite stiletto couple🫂

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ingrid@pipravis
4 stars
Aug 17, 2022

liked this book way more than the first one, grace and jake were so much fun. i loved them!

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macy@macyy
4 stars
Aug 17, 2022

gracejake we’re adorable i love them <3

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meha @santischloe
5 stars
Aug 16, 2022

gracejake owners of my heart. I love them so much.

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z@jonathankennedy
4 stars
Aug 16, 2022

grace and jake were sauuur cute!!

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catia@catiaslibrary
5 stars
Aug 14, 2022

“It’s like this, Grace. I love you. I do. And I know this isn’t a romantic way to say it, and I should probably have truffles and Merlot and some shit, and instead someone just spilled beer all over my foot, but that’s the way my love is going to be. A little bit messy, completely confused. But it’s real.” Lauren Layne does it again and this time was even better!! Grace and Jake's banter was iconic and so damn good since the first moment they met and their whole development was everything!! Also loved to see Julie and Mitchell crumbs god they're so cutee Jake Malone might be my fave man from the series and Grace Brighton might be my fave woman, idk how to explain but I just loved them so so much!! (JulieMitchell will always have a special place in my heart my meow meows)

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Emilie Adele Rognmo@emilieadele
4 stars
Aug 2, 2022

4.5 stars lauren layne where have you and your romcoms been all my life. absolutely in love. grace and jake i love you. the banter was phenomenal. i loved the kinda rivals to lovers, fake dating ish vibes. definitely my kind of book. and again like the first book the nyc setting is just perfect.

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Nikki@beaushelly
3 stars
Jul 1, 2022

It was a slow start and a slow middle but goddang the ending really got to me

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Nedu@nedu
5 stars
Apr 8, 2022

grace and jake have my entire heart. can't wait to read riley's shenanigans in her book. side note, laurel layne writing is so good

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Becky@afoolsingenuity
4 stars
Jan 6, 2022

I thought I enjoyed the first book in this series but this one just took it to a new level. We officially get introduced to the Oxford magazine so I can see this will lead into Layne's next series well. Jake and Grace were hot together! I mean, everything about this book made me happy. I didn't even care Grace was creating obstacles where there should be none. I didn't care that Jake was keeping secrets and causing issues because he didn't know what he needed and I am so glad he book when where it went. Time and again Lauren Layne proved to me she knows what she doing. She is a fave in the contemporary world for me and it's all Nick's fault and I'm glad I started reading.

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luana santos@luanes
2 stars
Dec 14, 2021

2.5

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Silvana Ruiz@larenskanej
5 stars
Oct 25, 2021

this too damn cute and wonderful and amazing, i loved it

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Kim@kimberlyfayereads
5 stars
Oct 6, 2021

Find this review and more at kimberlyfaye reads. I'm not kidding when I said in my previous review that I was going to binge this series. I jumped right into Love the One You're With as soon as I finished my review for the first book. I loved it every bit as much as the first! This book was FUN. I love the fake relationship trope and I liked the little twist here, where Grace and Jake were being made to pretend they were dating because of work. Of course, we all know it's only a matter of time before pretend turns into real and I loved how Lauren made this her own for these two characters. I adored these two. Grace deserved a HEA after her jerkwad ex treated her like he did. Jake was the perfectly imperfect guy to give it to her, even if he definitely wasn't looking for a relationship when things started between them. As the competition between them heated up, so did their chemistry and the sexual tension. What the public saw was just a very small part of what was happening between Grace and Jake. I loved their banter and, honestly, everything about them and this book. Love the One Your With was a great addition to what's quickly becoming one of my favorite adult contemporary romance series by an author who has absolutely earned a spot on my auto-buy (or request) author list. This book was funny, sexy and swoony. After being hit unaware by the feels in the first book, I'd prepared myself going into this one. The feels were there for sure. The book wasn't without drama, but it wasn't over-the-top and I loved that. FAVORITE QUOTES: "The only women whose buttons get pushed by 'cheese plate' are dairy maids. So feel free to take that little tidbit of a sex tip of yours right on back to Wisconsin." He wanted to kiss her. Damn it to hell. He wanted to bury his fingers in her hair. Hell, he wanted to lift her on to the desk and bury himself in her. That's what they were doing – dating for public consumption. It was like reality TV without the reality. Not quite scripted, but not quite real either.

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tori@kaladin
2.5 stars
Sep 6, 2022
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shar@judeccardan
4 stars
Aug 18, 2022
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arwen@corienrielle
2 stars
May 5, 2024
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Anastasia Jack@anastasiajack
4 stars
Jan 9, 2024