Rough Rhythm
Made in Jersey, 1.5
Tessa Bailey
Evil Eye Concepts
March 8, 2016
SYNOPSIS:
God help the woman I take home tonight.
Band manager James Brandon never expected to find the elusive satisfaction he’d been chasing, let alone stumble upon it in some sleezy Hollywood meat market. Yet the girl’s quiet pride spoke to him from across the bar, louder than a shout. Troubled, hungry and homeless, she’d placed her trust in him. But after losing the grip on his dark desires that one fateful night, James has spent the last four years atoning for letting her down.
This time I’ll finally crack him.
Rock band drummer Lita Regina has had enough of James’s guilt. She wants the explosive man she met that night in Hollywood. The man who held nothing back and took no prisoners—save Lita. And she’ll stop at nothing to revive him. Even if it means throwing herself into peril at every turn, just to get a reaction from her stoic manager. But when Lita takes her quest one step too far, James disappears from her life, thinking his absence will keep her safe.
Now it’s up to Lita to bring James back…and ignite an inferno of passion in the process.
Reader Advisory: ROUGH RHYTHM contains fantasies of nonconsensual sex, acted upon by consenting characters. Readers with sensitivity to portrayals of nonconsensual sex should be advised.
My Thoughts:
Who knew uptight James had a dark side when it came to sex. At the same time he's afraid to unleash it on any woman, there is a logical reason. In his mind he wants to keep women safe from his dark cravings, especially Lita. Now Lita craves James dark side, but doesn't know how to express it. She ends up doing reckless things to show James she can handle the situation, but that totally back fires.
At first, Lita and James have a toxic relationship. Both of them wants one another, but James is afraid to act on his feelings, which stem from the past. We learn from the past four years Lita has been trying to show James she's ready for excitement. Okay, the reader advisor in the blurb basically says it all. If you are not into fantasies of nonconsensual sex don't read this, because James likes his fantasies with Lita. Yes, it takes him time to overcome his fears, which are legit. I did like how Lita did grow up when she realized certain things, even though her natural tendency was to cause trouble to get attention from James. Overall, Rough Rhythm is a steamy read, and I'm glad they solved all that sexual tension between the to of them.
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Excerpt:
Band manager James Brandon never expected to find the elusive satisfaction he’d been chasing, let alone stumble upon it in some sleezy Hollywood meat market. Yet the girl’s quiet pride spoke to him from across the bar, louder than a shout. Troubled, hungry and homeless, she’d placed her trust in him. But after losing the grip on his dark desires that one fateful night, James has spent the last four years atoning for letting her down.
This time I’ll finally crack him.
Rock band drummer Lita Regina has had enough of James’s guilt. She wants the explosive man she met that night in Hollywood. The man who held nothing back and took no prisoners—save Lita. And she’ll stop at nothing to revive him. Even if it means throwing herself into peril at every turn, just to get a reaction from her stoic manager. But when Lita takes her quest one step too far, James disappears from her life, thinking his absence will keep her safe.
Now it’s up to Lita to bring James back…and ignite an inferno of passion in the process.
Reader Advisory: ROUGH RHYTHM contains fantasies of nonconsensual sex, acted upon by consenting characters. Readers with sensitivity to portrayals of nonconsensual sex should be advised.
My Thoughts:
Who knew uptight James had a dark side when it came to sex. At the same time he's afraid to unleash it on any woman, there is a logical reason. In his mind he wants to keep women safe from his dark cravings, especially Lita. Now Lita craves James dark side, but doesn't know how to express it. She ends up doing reckless things to show James she can handle the situation, but that totally back fires.
At first, Lita and James have a toxic relationship. Both of them wants one another, but James is afraid to act on his feelings, which stem from the past. We learn from the past four years Lita has been trying to show James she's ready for excitement. Okay, the reader advisor in the blurb basically says it all. If you are not into fantasies of nonconsensual sex don't read this, because James likes his fantasies with Lita. Yes, it takes him time to overcome his fears, which are legit. I did like how Lita did grow up when she realized certain things, even though her natural tendency was to cause trouble to get attention from James. Overall, Rough Rhythm is a steamy read, and I'm glad they solved all that sexual tension between the to of them.
Copy provided by author via InkSlingerPR
Excerpt:
“You came along at an unfortunate time,
Lita.” His head gave a tight jerk, jaw clenching. “I haven’t been feeling like
myself.”
“Really.” She set the donut down, her
stomach executing a series of flips. Nervous ones, but not the type that made
her want to run. Not the type she’d experienced before. These were hotter,
fuller, curious. “How do you feel…instead?”
“I have hunger.” His dark gaze swung up,
gluing her to the plush, leather seat. “I don’t know if it can be fed like
yours.”
What was going on here? Lita felt almost
hypnotized, lured in by his rasping, cultured voice. She recognized interest
and arousal in men, had it directed at her often, but this? This was utter
famishment. He reminded her of a vampire who’d been in hiding from the sun,
unable to hunt. And now a deer lay before him, vital and tempting, life flowing
through its veins. She was the deer.
Man. How crazy were her thoughts right now? The
lack of food must have gone to her head. After the trouble she’d just escaped,
she shouldn’t care what went on under another man’s surface. Shouldn’t allow
this odd, instantaneous attachment to take hold.
The fuller her stomach became, though,
the more her thoughts cleared. The more of James she saw. His interest in her,
as he watched her mouth chew, was almost as thick as the leash around his neck,
keeping him in place. If the lights in the room weren’t so dim, she could
probably make it out. Strain bracketed his masculine mouth and he appeared to
be swallowing golf balls down the column of his powerful throat.
One…after…another.
“How did you get so hungry?” James asked,
his tone suggesting he was reclining back onto a bed of nails.
Lita rejected the outside ugliness from
entering the room. “I could ask you the same thing.” Her legs were steady as
she stood and rounded the table, compelled by some force she couldn’t deny.
Maybe it was his clear attempt to restrain himself, to fight the attraction so
obvious between them. She stopped beside James, but he stayed still as stone.
“I’m full. What happens now?”
His eyelids drooped, fist mashing against
his forehead. “Go.”
That single, tortured word caught her in
the chest. God, he was holding back so much. What would
happen when it roared out?
Why was she trembling with the need to
find out?
There was danger lurking beneath this
man’s surface. Also known as the last thing a homeless girl wanting to turn her
luck around needed.
Too bad danger was the only thing that
had ever made her feel alive.
Lita walked past James to the lamp and
flipped off the gentle light, before returning to his tense figure, sliding
between his outstretched legs…and opening the robe. “Feed yourself.”
The air crackled as James stood slowly,
so slowly, rising to his full height. When Lita glimpsed his changed
expression, she realized that—at her invitation—a change had snapped through
him like a cracking whip, despite the way he rose without hurry. The vampire’s
dirt nap had officially ended and the invisible leash was no more. Power
rippled over his beautiful body as it pressed close, a hand finding her hip
inside the robe, squeezing, his mouth sliding against her ear.
His breath went choppy after issuing a
single unexpected command.
“Crawl.”
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ABOUT TESSA BAILEY
Tessa Bailey is originally from
Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her
yearbook, ripped jeans and laptop, driving cross-country to New York City in
under four days. Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter
while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those
four walls, she met her husband, best friend and discovered the magic of
classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College
and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted
attempts to enter the work force as a journalist followed, but romance writing
continued to demand her attention. She now lives in Long Island, New York with
her husband of eight years and four-year-old daughter. Although she is severely
sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about
people falling in love.
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