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The Good Girl Effect

Salacious Legacy, Book 1

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The Good Girl Effect

By: Sara Cate
Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Meg Sylvan, Brandon Francis, CJ Bloom, Samantha Brentmoor
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Jack St. Claire is desperate. A grieving single father, he buries himself in his work—running a brand-new kink club in Paris. Instead of handling his grief, he’s built a fortress around his heart, and it’s time he hired someone to help him take care of his daughter before things get worse.

Camille Aubert wasn’t looking for a new job. She just wanted to return a lost love letter she’d found within the pages of a book. But when she’s mistaken for a job candidate and hired as Jack’s live-in nanny, something tells her this is exactly where she needs to be.

Shortly after arriving, Camille discovers a strange room in the apartment that sparks her curiosity—and hints at a dark, mysterious side to Jack that she’s desperate to uncover. The lines between professional and personal blur dangerously as the heat between them becomes impossible to ignore. She’s drawn to the broken man who hides his grief in ropes and bondage, and she challenges him in ways he never thought possible.

Caught between her growing feelings for Jack and the ghosts of his past, Camille must decide: can love heal a heart still grieving, or will their passion destroy them both?

©2025 Sara Cate (P)2025 Sara Cate Contemporary Heartfelt
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wow.. Sara Care, I love you! My favorite writer, you dont it again, omg. thank you, cant wait til the next book. how do you write so good? 🔥😍👏

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The audiobook of this was the absolute best! A full cast and duet form what more can you need! Meg and Jason did a fantastic job of bringing Camille and Jack to life. The French in this book was also so funny for me as I understand it for the most part hearing another language when reading is always an adventure. The audiobook made it so much more immersive especially with the scenes in the club. Definitely recommend the audiobook if you want to read this story!
I have loved Jack since we met him as a child in Madam and seeing him all grown up was so nice. He does have some changing to do as he is a grumpy grief ridden mess when we meet him now. Camille is such a sweet character with a curious nature and exactly what Bea and Jack need in their life. She takes amazing care of Bea and seeing her love Camille was so cute! Her relationship with Jack starts off very rocky as Jack is shutdown and cold to everyone. But once they start their nightly sessions you can see Jack changing for the better. The steamy scenes were so good with all the rope lessons. The book also spent a great deal of time with how to manage your grief as Jack did not deal with his as he should have. So it is a very emotionally heavy book. I really loved this one a lot and I look forward to see the rest of the legacies story!
If you are looking for a steamy, single dad x nanny, dual pov, kinky romance this book is for you!

Amazing steamy romance!

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This lovely story of wanting to return a precious memory turning into a love that shouldn’t have been. Forced proximity brought them closer and found a release for their growing tension. The narrators did a great job embodying the characters. Loved it!

Intense wanting and spice

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🎧⭐️ALC Review⭐️🎧

OK Sara Cate way to raise the bar. Her Salacious Players Club series is beyond amazing, and while TGGE was a highly anticipated release, and I love a second gen series, I am always leery of them, because I want to love them as much as the original. Well, in this case I think I love this book even more. In addition to this being Sara’s first book in this new series, it is also her first full-cast duet audiobook. And did it ever deliver. There is so much that occurs in the book, and by the end there are even more questions, but they are about the other characters. Meg Sylvan gave an epic performance as Camille, young and vibrant, but looking for something more. Jason Clarke was unsurprisingly impressive as Jack, and the supporting cast did not disappoint. Samantha Brentmoor was captivating, CJ Bloom was incredible, and Brandon Francis was just beyond for the characters he voiced. You need to devour this book immediately, if not sooner.

Narration: Full cast - Duet narration, first-person present tense, multiple-POV some flashbacks

Tropes: Slight age gap, k!nk club, single dad, widower, nanny, shibari, mourning, business partners at odds, ‘Good girl”, obstinate FMC, cute kid, grumpy/sunshine, France/French accent, secret relationship, boss/worker relationship, dom/sub, he pushes her away

Overall: 5
Spice: 4
Humor: 2.5
Drama: 3.5
Darkness: 3
Narration: 5

Camille finds a lost love letter hidden in the pages of a book in the shop she works at. Deciding she needs to find who this letter belongs to and return it to him, she hops on a train to Paris to do just that. What she didn’t expect was to be mistaken for a job candidate as a nanny for this grieving widower’s daughter.

Jack has not been able to get over the loss of his wife. After two years he is able to hold it together by burying himself in work, and pulling away from all the people in his life, including his 5-year-old daughter. When Camille enters their life as the full-time, live-in nanny, she shakes up Jack’s life in ways he never could have imagined.

When Camille discovers what Jack does for a living, as well as a hidden room that hits at some of Jack’s darker proclivities, Camille can’t help but be drawn even closer to the man she first met through a love letter to his wife. Will Jack be able to let go of his grief and start to live again, or will it consume him and force him to fortify the walls he built around his heart.

Amazing second gen book 1

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I love, love, loved Sara Cate’s “Salacious Players Club” series and was wondering how she was going to top that or even keep the momentum going. Well, she outdid herself with this first book of the “Salacious Legacy” series, not that I had any doubt since everything she writes is absolutely brilliant. This book starts with a brief introduction to the key characters, the children, now adults, of the “Salacious Players Club” characters and their current relationships, basically laying down the foundation for the series. The parents are not happy with the state of their children’s relationship, and are going to give them a chance to make it better by making them work together as a team to run their own club in Paris, where they were already living and working, Ronan’s club, now theirs, the second generation, Julian, Amelia, Phoenix, Weston, Jack and Elizabeth, the other three children, Liam, Austin and Scarlet are off doing their own thing and may or may not join them at some point. Each will bring something different to the club, doing their own thing with Jack St. Claire and Julian Kade at the helm running it together, which will be interesting since they have not gotten along in years.

“The Good Girl Effect” is Jack St. Claire and Camille Aubert’s story, an enthralling story that tugs at your heartstrings. Jack is a widower and a single dad, a broken man lost in his own grief. He has been running his uncle’s club, but plans to leave Paris and return to the States to be near his family and raise his daughter there. He only agreed to his uncle’s plan of taking over the club because he needs to make mends with his sister Elizabeth, he does not mind working with his bestie, Phoenix or her brother Weston, though he is not happy to be partnered with Julian. Times had not been good after his wife died, but he has his daughter back with him and he needs to find a nanny to watch her while he works. It hasn’t been easy for Camille Aubert, taking the death of her father and loss of his restaurant hard. She is working at a bookstore but has dreams of moving to Paris one day. Intrigued by a picture and letter she found in a book in the store, she needed to find and return the letter to the addressee. After learning the person died, she went to return the letter to the person who wrote it, Jack St. Claire. Except that is not what happens when she arrives, the person who answered the door assumed she was there for the nanny position, for Jack’s young daughter. Not sure why, but she just went with it, and she and the little girl, Bea, clicked right away. It was her comments about knowing what it was like to be raised by a single parent, and Bea liking her that led to her getting the job. Sara Cate put her own unique spin on the nanny/single dad trope, creating a multi-layered story with complex characters, and it was great watching everything unfold. The chemistry between Jack and Camille was electric, and she saw past his angst and heartache, and penetrated the wall around his heart, and it became easier to see past his grief. There is never a dull moment in this book, and the story has the perfect balance of drama, angst, heartfelt emotions and steamy romance. As always, the writing, plot and world building are incredible, as are the character growth and development. Sara Cate, thank you for another exceptional story and emotional rollercoaster ride.

🎧📚🎧 And for the amazing multi-cast production performed in duet by a superbly talented cast with character voices that are fitting for a perfect portrayal of each. Jason Clarke and Meg Sylvan were fantastic at performing the roles of the two lead characters, Jack and Camille, and equally fantastic were Brandon Francis, CJ Bloom and Samantha Brentmoor performing the roles of the side/secondary characters. Clarke nailed it as Jack, grasping every aspect of his personality, from his angst and despondency to his alpha Dom and all in between. Sylvan was a natural in Camille’s role, showcasing her personality perfectly, her strength and determination, as well as her easiness with and as Bea. The supporting cast were equally amazing in their roles, and I hope to hear them reprise those roles for their character’s own books. These entertaining storytellers are a pleasure to listen to, and their captivating performance not only rivets you to the story, but it takes the already exceptional story to another level.

Exceptional Story & Narration🎧 Gripping & Emotional!

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