A high school reunion is about to get down and dirty
and a whole lot more complicated!
and a whole lot more complicated!
ROCK STAR
A Bad Boy Homecoming Novel
Stacey Kennedy
Releasing June 27, 2017
A high school reunion is about to
get down and dirty and a whole lot more complicated in this new erotic romance
from USA Today bestselling author Stacey Kennedy.
Veterinarian, Rae Evans expects to attend a dreadful ten-year high school reunion. Instead, she’s confronted by a past she’s never gotten over. The love of her life, Travis Walker, has returned to Catfish Creek, and the now-famous rock star wants only three things: Her. Naked. And screaming his name.
Veterinarian, Rae Evans expects to attend a dreadful ten-year high school reunion. Instead, she’s confronted by a past she’s never gotten over. The love of her life, Travis Walker, has returned to Catfish Creek, and the now-famous rock star wants only three things: Her. Naked. And screaming his name.
Fresh off
his last world tour, Travis has returned to town to get a dose of reality. With
fame casting a superficial cloud over Travis’s life, he’s scrambling to stay
afloat. He needs an anchor, and Rae is that for him. But as he finds himself,
he’s determined to remind Rae of the heat that once burned between them.
Before they
know it, their one hot night is three, and soon, just like ten years ago,
Travis holds the strings to Rae’s heart. But Rae’s not that young girl who
watched her high school sweetheart race off to become famous. She’s a woman who
knows what she wants and realizes when a man needs her. She just has to decide
if she should put the past on repeat, or walk away from it forever.
EXCERPT
Travis Walker made women’s panties disappear.
On most nights, anyway.
Tonight, sitting on a
wooden stool set upon the stage at Catfish Creek High School’s conference
center, only one woman was on his mind. His fingers strummed over the strings
of the guitar, mouth rested near the microphone, and after he sang the final
two lines of the chorus—I wanna kiss you
under the moonlight. And love you ‘til the sun comes up—the applause from
the crowd reopened his eyes.
Sparkling string lights
and masquerade masks hung from the ceiling above him, reminding him that he
wasn’t surrounded by thousands of his typical screaming and wild fans. In his
Texas hometown, he stared out at teachers, old friends, and classmates, all
dressed in formal wear and masquerade masks.
From his seat in the
spotlight, he recalled playing for smaller crowds on this very stage back in
high school. Those had been some of the happiest days of his life. Now, fresh
off his last world tour, he realized he loved that scene, too. The energy of a
smaller crowd, who knew him personally, and a larger crowd, who thought they
were in love with him, was so different he couldn’t compare the two, but
admittedly, he missed the intimacy that came from a smaller venue.
Done with his song, and
with the crowd quieting, he slid the guitar strap over his head and handed the
instrument back to a member of the band that’d been hired to play at Catfish
Creek High School’s ten-year reunion. When he jumped off the stage, he sighed
in relief, finding that all the cell phones pointed in his direction were now
put away, and the flashing lights were gone.
That’s when he set his
focus on what mattered tonight: finding her.
Rae Evans—the muse behind the song he sang tonight, Moonlight.
He scanned the crowd
overtop the decorated tables with their gold chairs, but the beauty had escaped
him somehow. He recognized Annie Flowers, the librarian, who gave him a little
wave, and Christopher Christianson, the principal, who was grabbing a drink
from the bar. Travis could have sworn he spotted Rae entering the masquerade
ball when he began his song. Desperation now clawed at his chest.
Determined to find her, he
moved farther into the crowd, just as his cell vibrated in his pocket. Knowing
exactly who it’d be, and that he couldn’t ignore the call, he reached for his
phone and then frowned at the text from his manager, Scott Price.
Awesome job. The video is already up on YouTube. Fans are loving
it. The mask was a nice touch. Don’t miss your flight in the a.m.
Travis shifted the black
masquerade mask around his eyes, and the muscles along his shoulders tightened
with the reminder of the weight they carried; of the need for him to always be
on point, and the fact that nothing, not even his high school reunion, was
sacred anymore.
Life had changed
dramatically since the last time Travis stepped foot in the conference center.
But he didn’t want to think about the shit weighing on him, so he fired off a
response—I’ll be on it—then tucked
his cell phone back into his pocket.
He had tonight to fix
everything that was wrong with his life, and he wouldn’t waste it.
STACEY
KENNEDY is
the USA Today bestselling author of the Dirty Little Secrets and Club Sin
series. She writes deeply emotional romances about powerful men and the wild
women who tame them. When she’s not writing sensual stories, she spends her
time in southwestern Ontario with her real life hero, her husband, their two
young children, and her other babies: a mini labradoodle named Jax and a
chocolate labrador named Murphy. Stacey is a proud chocolate, television show,
Urban Barn, and wine addict. She likes her heroes in her books like she likes
her coffee . . . strong and hot!
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