Stay up all night with the sexy rockers in Stage Dive, the epic New Adult series from New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott, author of Lick and Play.
About Lead (Stage Drive #3):
As the lead singer of Stage Dive, Jimmy is used to getting whatever he wants, whenever he wants it, whether it's booze, drugs, or women. However, when a PR disaster serves as a wake-up call about his life and lands him in rehab, he finds himself with Lena, a new assistant to keep him out of trouble.
Lena's not willing to take any crap from the sexy rocker and is determined to keep their relationship completely professional, despite their sizzling chemistry. But when Jimmy pushes her too far and Lena leaves, he realizes that he may just have lost the best thing that ever happened to him.
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The Stage Dive series by Kylie Scott:
Excerpt:
“Lena, you seen my old black Led Zep shirt?”
“Nope.”
“You sure?” His brows became one dark cranky line. The scratches on his face were healing well, thank goodness. Though it didn’t reduce my desire to throttle his mother on a daily basis.
“Yes. I haven’t seen it.”
Can’t find it anywhere…”
“And this is a surprise, how?” I slipped my hands into my back jean’s pockets. “Jimmy, you own more clothing than Cher, Brittney, and Elvis, put together. Things are bound to go missing.”
“Sure you haven’t seen it?”
“For goodness sake, what do you think, Jimmy? That I stole it to sleep in or something?” I laughed bitterly. Sure as hell, the truth deserved a good mocking. I’d sunk so despicably low.
I hadn’t even meant to steal the stupid thing, but the shirt had been mixed up with my laundry a few days ago. It’d been the first top I laid my hand on after stepping out of the shower, ready to go to bed. Without thought, I’d put it on and it’d been so soft, the scent of him lingering beneath the laundry detergent. Every night since, I’d found myself in it come bedtime. My shame knew no limits. And no, I still hadn’t quit. The words still hadn’t come even close to leaving my mouth.
He frowned. “No.”
“That I have some deep secret longing to feel close to you resulting in my stealing your shirt like some creepy perv?”
“Course I don’t fucking think that,” he replied crankily, reaching up to grip the top of the doorframe. All of his bulging muscles stretched the arms of his white T-shirt in the nicest way. It was all I could do not to start drooling, my heart beat taking up residence somewhere down between my thighs. And who could blame it? Not me. Maybe if I got laid, this would go away and things would return to normal. It’d seemed safer to avoid rubbing up against any men just in case I got carried away and started dating again. This new situation, however, changed everything.
“Well, of course not! That would be crazy.” And wasn’t that the god’s honest truth? Cray-zeee. Lock me up and throw away the key because it wasn’t like I didn’t know better.
“Just can’t figure out where the hell it could be.”
Angels couldn’t have smiled as innocently. They might have tried, but they would have failed, the dirty-mouthed, winged, little liars. “Jimmy, I don’t know where it is. But I’ll look around for it later, okay?”
“Yeah,” he said, and then added as an afterthought, “and stop looking at me weird.”
“I’m not!”
I absolutely love
this series!! These four guys have
totally stolen my heart, and I really wish they were an actual band, so I could totally
go all "fan girl" on them - listening to their music on my ipod, and
hanging posters of them on my wall!!
This
story is about Jimmy, David's brother, a recovering addict - who is working hard
on staying clean, and taking care of the people he loves. Lena, through a strange twist of fate, is
unexpectedly hired by the band to be Jimmy's "sobriety
companion". Jimmy is not the
easiest person to be around - she learns that very fast, but she can handle him
- she's not going to let him walk all over her.
The
problems for Lena begin, when she realizes as she's spending time with Jimmy,
being his companion and assistant, that she is slowly falling for him. She knows she needs to either get over this infatuation or quit her job - Jimmy would
never want her. My heart hurt so much at times
for Lena, as I think a lot of us know the pain of
"unrequited" love at one time in our life. She was so brave - I don't know how she had
the nerve to tell Jimmy exactly how she felt about him - I could have never
been that brave for sure.
How to
describe Jimmy??
Well, he's a total contradiction when I think about it. He's a recovering addict, a former man-whore, extremely private, fiercely protective of his brother and those he cares about - but he is so very naive at relationships. He seriously thought he could help Lena get over him. I did have to laugh at some of his attempts at that, but deep down my heart broke for Lena, because she knew it would never work, she'd always have feelings for Jimmy. She had to leave.
Well, he's a total contradiction when I think about it. He's a recovering addict, a former man-whore, extremely private, fiercely protective of his brother and those he cares about - but he is so very naive at relationships. He seriously thought he could help Lena get over him. I did have to laugh at some of his attempts at that, but deep down my heart broke for Lena, because she knew it would never work, she'd always have feelings for Jimmy. She had to leave.
This is
where I'll leave the rest for you to enjoy and read - and see how these two
work out whether they should be together - or go their separate ways. My stomach was in knots at times, I just
wanted to give Lena the biggest hug ever, yet I couldn't hate Jimmy for the
life of me. He had his reasons for all
of his feelings and actions. I just love
these two people.
I
devoured this book for sure - but I have to say though, that so far, Mal is
still my favorite of the four, he just makes me smile, and holds a special
place in my heart. I was so glad there
was some of his "craziness" and antics in the book - along with Killer's appearance too! But to be fair,
before I pick my favorite in the band I'll wait for Ben's story - who knows he
may end up being my favorite of the group!
Rock on Stage Dive!!!
Rock on Stage Dive!!!
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Kylie is a long time fan of romance, rock music, and B-grade horror films. Based in Queensland, Australia with her two children and one delightful husband, she reads, writes and never dithers around on the internet.
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