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Overview

Three Las Vegas wives. One dirty secret…

In a city built for sin, where any fantasy is one phone call away, three successful women make their way in the world… They are Las Vegas wives, and THE STRIP is their adults-only playground, a neon-splashed boulevard where excitement, seduction, and betrayal never go to sleep.

KRISTIN FOX is the bestselling writer of controversial sex-in-suburbia novels who hungers for sensuality outside the pages of her money-making fiction. JENNIFER PAYNE is the insightful marriage and family therapist who has an answer for every relationship problem except the one happening in her very own bedroom. BILLIE SHELTON is the casino showroom song-and-dance dazzler who has been saved, remade, and quietly shattered by a dangerously obsessive Svengali husband.

And CAM LAWFORD is the man they share: a gorgeous stud-for-hire whose career-ending sports injury has led him from roaring crowds in NFL stadiums to willing women in luxury hotel rooms. And straight into a whole new deadly game …

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Publishers Weekly

The latest from Salem (Tan Lines) offers an absorbing plot and enough erotica to heat up any cold winter evening. In Las Vegas, bestselling author Kristin Fox, marriage and family therapist Jennifer Payne, and casino song-and-dance star Billie Shelton seem blessed with money, fame, and fortune, but behind closed doors each woman struggles with a lackluster, loveless marriage. Enter Cam Lawford, a retired NFL stud turned high-priced escort. Though each woman hires Cam hoping for a no-strings-attached moment of well-deserved pleasure, nothing is as easy as it seems—not even in Sin City. Soon, all three women are engulfed in a web of jealousy, lies, and murder. Believable characters, witty dialogue, and timely details invigorate this saucy, fast-paced novel. (Nov.)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312374181
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 11/8/2011
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 352,739
Product dimensions: 8.20 (w) x 5.50 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

J.J Salem is a USA Today bestselling author whose work has been published in several languages. He is the author of Tan Lines and has written both adult fiction for Kensington and Zebra and young adult fiction for MTV Books under the pseudonym Kylie Adams. He lives in the southeastern United States. Visit him online at www.jjsalem.com.

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Posted October 4, 2011

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Darcus @ Starcrossed

I honestly have to say that I absolutely loved this book. Everything from the cover, to the characters, to the story waiting inside was amazing. And is it just me, or does the woman on the cover look like and adult LeAnn Rimes?

I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book when I first saw it on GoodReads. It just didn't seem like my kind of book. But when I received it in the mail and starting reading it, I couldn't put it down! It was so easy to get sucked into The Strip. I seriously read for hours, not wanting to put it down. My husband practically had to pry it out of my fingers when it was time for bed.

Not only is this book really sexy and dangerous, (very sexy and very dangerous), but the characters are so well defined and created that you can't help but to love them, hate them, or want to be with them (Cam anyone?).

Even though there's a lot of sexy situations, yummy characters, and a fantasy-style storyline, there's also a dark, dangerous side to The Strip. The book goes really deep and shows the dark side of fame, success, money, sex, control, marriage, and the very greedy side of love. It draws you in.

In my opinion, the ending didn't stand up as well as the majority of the book. But I'm sure that would be different for different people. Different readers would want it to end different ways. I wasn't too fond of this ending, but it definitely didn't take away from the rest of the novel.

All in all, this was a great read that I will definitely read again in the future, and I have to say, it should be made into a movie!
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ChadAaronSayban

Posted September 23, 2011

Sin City??

Sin City has always had its own rules and morality. So when three wealthy, highly successful women find that the answer to their unfulfilling marriages is to engage the services of a sophisticated male prostitute, there is nothing shocking about it. But when he ends up murdered, the question becomes who did it and who might be next.

The Strip centers on the lives of Kristen (a best-selling author), Billie (Vegas' quintessential song-and-dance maven) and Jennifer (the marriage counselor) along with their hired hunk Cam Lawford. All four of these characters are compelling and create quite a dynamic between them. Even though Cam is far too perfect to be real, he serves his function in the story in a James Bond manner. However, the rest of the characters are so cliché they could be made of cardboard. Kristen and Billie's husbands are so simplistically evil as to be caricatures of villains - very nearly comic rather than threatening. Only Jennifer's transgressions against her misunderstood husband come across as authentic and understandable.

The most troublesome part of The Strip is the plot. It spits and sputters along without ever building towards a conclusion. The murder is foretold in the first chapter along with introducing an interesting detective who is then completely forgotten for the rest of the book. Conflicts are stilted and only seem to fill the gaps between flamboyant sex scenes where Cam always says and does the right thing and never steps over any lines. Finally, the conclusion is haphazard. With so little tension built throughout the story, there is nothing to be released at the end. While The Strip may serve as a fantasy session for women who want to imagine being swept up by that perfect guy (even if you have to pay for it) there is very little story to engage the reader.

The Strip was provided by St. Martin's Press through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program.
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