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Julia Kent is an American USA Today and New York Times bestselling author best known for writing edgy contemporary romantic comedy and boundary pushing contemporary adult books. Since starting out in 2013, she has attained much success selling over 1.5 million novels with 16 titles making the USA Today bestseller list and four on the New York Times bestsellers. Some of her most popular novels include The Shopping series, The Obedient Series, The Random Series, and The Her Billionaires Series. The popularity of her novels on both sides of the Atlantic has seen her novels translated into different languages including German and French. Julia Kent writes about a variety of issues ranging from new adult rock stars to BBWs to billionaires. However, …show more content…
Most of the inspiration for the books is drawn from Julia Kent’s vast experience as a mystery shopper. Over the course of thirteen years, she has written short books and numerous articles on her mystery shopping experiences. The experience was a great one as they provided the foundation for the hilarious narratives of her heroines that meet men in places such as toilets, the office, in high school and even out shopping. Having lived such a life, she would know that you meet all kinds of men even at an oil change. Even as most of the novels are contemporary romances people with wealthy men as the heroes, it still has the quintessential romance elements such as steamy love sessions, the inevitable tension between the lovers, the stolen kisses, and wild excitement that Julia Kent writes with elegance to leave the reader drooling. The men are masculine and resolute persons that are given either to their jobs or to a life of no commitment. The women are driven by an inexplicable desire for the men probably who seem to be so unattainable. It is all fireworks when the two meet, with sparks flying due to the unavoidable

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