3 Nights With a Rockstar (Half-Life
#1)
Author: Amber
Lin and Shari Slade
Release Date:
June 2, 2014
Synopsis
When Hailey
crashes a Half-Life after party, she expects to find the bastard who knocked up
her little sister. Instead she meets the sexy front-man who agrees to give her
access to his crew if she gives him access to her body.
All Lock demands
in return is three days of complete control over the Sunday School teacher.
With a contract, because he’s been burned before.
One misstep could send the band—and his tenuous
sobriety—up in
flames.
Hailey and Lock
push each other’s limits… Against the penthouse window. Backstage. In the limo and on the
elevator. But as the contract counts down, neither are ready for the party to
end.
Excerpt
Lock managed not to
jump the sexy little Sunday school teacher the second her pen left the paper.
Her hand had been shaking as she’d
signed, and she wasn’t ready for sex. At
least not the way he did sex. So he showed her into the
restroom and let her freshen up. Meanwhile he conferred with the concierge to
get her bag brought up and her car moved to a VIP spot.
When she emerged from
the bathroom, he knew she was ready. He knew by the fresh lipstick on her full
lips and the resolved set of her chin. But most of all he knew because of the
flicker of curiosity in her eyes. Under the fear, she wanted to know what came
next.
He crooked his finger
and beckoned her to him.
Her breathing was
shallow, her cheeks flushed, and she kept running her fingers through her hair,
touching herself. That long blonde hair cascaded around her face in a messy
tumble. Bed head, and they hadn’t been anywhere near
a bed. Wouldn’t be near one anytime
soon if he had his way. Which he would. This was his
show.
She tugged the hem of
her short skirt so it covered a sliver more thigh, drew her shoulders back, and
crossed the room, steady on her bare feet. She should be plucking daisies, not
padding across the plush carpet of his penthouse suite. “Your wish is my command.”
No more preamble. If
she was really going to do this, he’d
know now for sure. “I’m going to fuck you against that window over there, and I’m not going to be nice about it. Do you like to
hurt, Hailey?”
Her name was a weapon
on his lips. A sharp thing he could use to lash her. Every time he said it, he
watched her tense. This time she wobbled, her answering nod barely perceptible,
her coltish legs giving way under the weight of his regard. And he liked
it.
She wanted this thrill,
and at the moment finding her sister’s
baby daddy didn’t have much to do
with it. Her eyes held wariness and guilt—but most of all, excitement. As if his proposition had jolted her
awake. More awake than she’d ever been in her
drowsy little East Podunk life, he’d
lay money on it.
He’d woken up on stage like that, the whiskey haze parting long enough
for fear to creep in, adrenaline spiking into his bloodstream as he fumbled for
an instant and then…click. Everything
slipping into its proper place. The music. The band. The crowd. All of it more
alive, more real, brighter and sharper because he’d come so close to disaster.
Do you like
to hurt, Hailey? He’d asked her, and she
could only nod.
He’d hurt her so good she’d
give voice to that desire before he was through. She knew it. He knew it. The
subtext breathed in the air around them, a living thing, that damned contract
come to life. She wants this. She wants the lurid celeb
fantasy. The shock, the pulse-pounding vibrancy that only
exists on the edge of a bad decision.
He’d take her there.
“Take off your clothes,”
he said, a little too harshly, his urgency coming out as hard-edged
gruffness.
It didn’t scare her away. She wants that too. She
fingered the button of her cardigan, uncertain, and then popped them all in a
rush, exposing a silver tank that dipped low over her cleavage.
Fuck. Surprisingly lush curves on her willowy frame, and
smooth, pale skin.
He shifted in his
seat, imagining his cock between her breasts. Making them slick, squeezing them
together, and thrusting, thrusting, thrusting until he came all over her neck.
Jesus, he hadn’t even seen them yet.
She put a hand to her throat as if she could read his mind. As if every dirty
thought he’d ever had was
flashing on his face. And she knew. Why was she taking so fucking long to
undress?
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About the
Authors
Amber
Lin
Amber Lin writes
erotic romance with damaged souls and deep emotion.
Her debut novel,
Giving It Up, received The Romance Review’s Top Pick, Night Owl Top Pick, and 5 Blue Ribbons from Romance
Junkies. RT Book Reviews gave it 4.5 stars, calling it “truly extraordinary.” She has been
published by Loose Id, Carina Press, and Entangled.
Amber married her high school sweetheart,
birthed a kid who’s smarter than she
is, and spends her nights writing down her dirty thoughts. In other words, life
is good.
Shari
Slade
Shari Slade is a
snarky optimist. A would-be academic with big dreams and very little means.
When she isn’t toiling away in the
non-profit sector, she’s writing gritty
stories about identity and people who make terrible choices in the name of love
(or lust). Somehow, it all works out in the end. If she had a patronus it would
be a platypus.
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