Catalog: General Trade
Publication Date: July 16, 2019
ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-945053-86-3
Price: 8.99
Country music superstar Grady Dawson meets celebrity stylist Nico Takahashi: The romance Kirkus Reviews called "witty, touching, nuance—and very sexy" is now is now available in one pitch perfect bundle with a special bonus story starring Grady's musical partner in crime, Clementine Campbell. This set includes: Broken Records, Burning Tracks, and Blended Notes, and two Spotlight “B-Sides,” series short stories written exclusively for this boxed set!
BROKEN RECORDS: Los Angeles-based stylist Nico Takahashi loves his job—or at least, he used to. Feeling fed up and exhausted from the cutthroat, gossip-fueled business of Hollywood, Nico daydreams about packing it all in and leaving for good. So when Grady Dawson—sexy country music star and rumored playboy—asks Nico to style him, Nico is reluctant. But after styling a career-changing photo shoot, Nico follows Grady to Nashville where he finds it increasingly difficult to resist Grady’s charms. Can Nico make his peace with show business and all its trappings, or will Grady’s public persona get in their way of their private attraction to each other?
BURNING TRACKS: Gwen Pasternak’s got it all. Or so it seems…
In the sequel to RT Book Reviews’ Top Pick Broken Records, Gwen’s life looks perfect: She has a job she loves as stylist to the stars; a beautiful wife, Flora; and a house in the heart of Nashville. But the more she works alongside country music’s dynamic princess Clementine Campbell, the less Gwen is certain of her commitment to a life of domestic bliss.
Meanwhile, her business partner Nico Takahashi is happily settled down with reformed bad-boy musician Grady Dawson. But when Nico questions the permanence of their relationship, Grady retreats into some dangerous old habits. Will Gwen ruin the life she’s built with Flora for something new and exhilarating? Can Grady be convinced of Nico’s devotion before it’s too late? Burning Tracks is a story of tough choices, taking risks, and the pressures of living life in the spotlight.
BLENDED NOTES: Grady Dawson’s future looks bright. He’s at the top of his country music career, has a close-knit group of friends who have become his Nashville family, and has found solid ground in his personal life as he plans his intimate, private wedding with Nico, his stylist-turned-lover, turned love of his life. It seems Grady has finally left his difficult childhood and tumultuous youth behind. That is, until his past shows up on his doorstep, news of his upcoming nuptials is leaked to the media, and his record company levels demands that challenge his integrity as an artist and as a person. The foundation of Grady’s new life begins to crumble, and fast. Will he be forced to make the ultimate choice between a private life with Nico and the public demands of his career?
My Two Pennies' Worth
Oh my, Grady is adorable.
A really well written tale of a 'normal' person falling for a star. The sex is hot and plentiful which is appropriate because sex is the driving force in the start of the relationship while Nico attempts to cling to every moment before the relationship falls apart. Nico has a tendency to run away from heartbreak and that made me want to give him a smack or two.
Can the two of them make it? Well, I hope so considering their tale continues as bit players in book 2 and the main event in book 3.
BUY LINKS:
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AUTHOR BIO:
Lilah Suzanne is a queer author of of bestselling and award-winning romantic fiction. Their 2018 novel Jilted was named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Foreword INDIES Award, and won a Bisexual Book Award for romantic fiction. Their critically acclaimed Spotlight series included the Amazon #1 bestseller Broken Records, along with Burning Tracks and Blended Notes. Lilah also authored the romantic comedy Spice, the novellas Pivot & Slip and After the Sunset, and the short story Halfway Home, from the holiday anthology If the Fates Allow. A writer from a young age, Lilah resides in North Carolina and mostly enjoys staying indoors, though sometimes ventures out for concerts, museum visits, and quiet walks in the woods.
Release Day excerpt
From Burning Tracks, Book 2:
“The key to a long-lasting relationship,” Gwen says, hunched over on her knees to crawl beneath the gossamer folds of Clementine’s dress, “Is that you have to think of yourselves as a team.” She grasps Clementine’s ankle to secure the silk ribbon of her peep-toe five-inch cork wedge shoes, just over the delicate protrusion of bone. “You have the same goals. You’re working together, not against each other.”
Gwen sits back on her haunches and hauls more of the dress over her head; the world goes a muted red there with silky gossamer fabric sliding and shimmering and catching with static on her neatly coiffed platinum blonde hair. A garter belt strap dangles loose on Clementine’s long, toned thigh. Gwen read once that Clementine’s legs are insured for three-hundred k per leg, but she’s never gotten more than a dismissive laugh in response to her questioning.
They are quality legs. Certainly worthy of at least a general liability policy, protecting those at risk from the tight knot of her calves and the lithe power of her thighs. Gwen clips the first strap to her sheer thigh-highs, reaches around behind her to grab blindly for the second one.
“Thank you, oh relationship guru,” Gwen hears clearly from under the dress; no amount of silk is enough to muffle Nico’s sarcasm.
“Now wait a sec,” Grady drawls in response. “I kinda like that. Sorta like a tandem bike ride?”
Gwen moves to the other leg, clips one strap, the other. Fights her way out of the dress. “More like... A three legged race, I think.” She quickly combs through her short hair, runs a finger under both eyes to check for any bold black liner smudging. As she stands she adds, “There’s a dirty joke in there somewhere, I just know it.”
“Spare us,” Nico snipes, and next to him on the plush king-sized bed, Grady grins.
They’re gathered in a room in one of the high-rise hotels downtown; hair and makeup people have gone leaving behind a vacuum of sounds and smells and gossip. Just a few final touches left on Clementine’s outfit before her manager bangs down the door. Gwen nods to the mirror for Clementine to see the final product, then helps herself to some pistachios from one of the baskets on the table.
Clementine spins in front of the mirror; the dress flares out in a trumpet shape; her caramel-colored hair cascades in glossy waves over her exposed shoulders and down her back. When she walks, the folds of fabric part in a slit designed to go high up on her thigh and reveal the garter belt. Just a peek. A tease. An invitation to look, but not for long.
“Perfect.” Gwen decides. “Nico?” She took the lead on Clementine’s look for her new album and the upcoming tour’s launch party concert, but Nico has such a keen instinct for what works. It’s why she wanted to go into business with him in the first place; she may have the knowledge—years and bookshelves full of it—but Nico has vision. That can’t be taught.
Nico doesn’t reply. Clementine makes a face at them. Gwen turns and—
“Should have known better than to let them on the bed.”
Nico and Grady are reclining now, dropped sideways in the center of the bed with their bodies curled and curved together and kissing: soft pecks with smiling lips that would be cute, sweet even, if it weren’t for the location of Grady’s left hand. Gwen exchanges a bemused look with Clementine.
“Hose ‘em down or leave ‘em?”
“The ice bucket would probably work,” Gwen says. Then a pounding boom comes from the door. Nico and Grady spring apart.
“Showtime, Ms. Campbell.”
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