Skip to Main Content

About The Book

When Hanna "Ziggy" Bergstrom moves to New York City for graduate school, Will Sumner thinks his responsibilities to his best friend's nerdy little sister will be limited to the occasional dinner and check-in. Little does he know that Ziggy is ready to break out of her bookworm academic shell and move more into bombshell territory. Of course she figures the gorgeous womanizing venture capitalist Will is the best person to help mentor her in this new field of study: dating.

Will takes on the challenge with more than a healthy dose of scepticism and humour, but soon finds that Ziggy just needed a tiny push, not a world of change, to reveal a woman every man seems to notice. Soon "Ziggy" is gone and the unfiltered, innocently seductive Hanna Bergstrom is hijacking his dreams, his moods, and even his orderly no-strings-attached dating life-beginning the night his mentoring activities move between the sheets.

About The Author

Photograph by Brystan Studios

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York TimesUSA TODAY, and #1 internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, The UnhoneymoonersThe Soulmate EquationSomething Wilder, and The True Love Experiment. You can find them online at ChristinaLaurenBooks.com or @ChristinaLauren on Instagram.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Gallery Books (November 7, 2013)
  • Length: 432 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781476751405

Browse Related Books

Raves and Reviews

"The perfect blend of sex, sass and heart, Beautiful Bastard is a steamy battle of wills that will get your blood pumping!"

– S.C. Stephens, bestselling author of Thoughtless

“Filled with plenty of hot sex and sizzling tension.”

– RT Book Reviews

“…deliciously steamy…”

– EW.com

“Smart, sexy, and satisfying...destined to become a romance classic.”

– Tara Sue Me, bestselling author of The Submissive,

“A devilishly depraved cross between a hardcore porn and a very special episode of The Office…For us fetish-friendly fiends to feast on!!”

– PerezHilton.com

“Hot . . . if you like your hook-ups early and plentiful..."

– EW.com

“The thing that I love the most about Christina Lauren and the duo’s Beautiful books is that there is always humor in them. As well as hot steamy moments and some of the sweetest I love you’s.”

– BooksSheReads.com

Beautiful Bastard has heart, heat, and a healthy dose of snark. Romance readers who love a smart plot are in for an amazingly sexy treat!”

– Myra McEntire, author of Hourglass

"Beautiful Bastard is the perfect mix of passionate romance and naughty eroticism. I couldn’t, and didn’t, put it down until I’d read every last word."

– Elena Raines, Twilightish

Resources and Downloads

High Resolution Images

More books from this author: Christina Lauren

More books in this series: The Beautiful Series