Meet bad boy rocker Wyatt in Fade Into You.
This new rock star romance by Tracy Wolff is NOW
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Blurb
A sexy
category romance from Entangled's Brazen imprint...
She’s one
addiction he can’t resist.
Wyatt
Jennings has been called a lot of things by the media. Bad-boy rocker. Intense
drummer. Addict.
Finally
out of rehab and desperate for a fresh start, Wyatt rejoins his mega-platinum
rock band Shaken Dirty as they prepare for their world tour. But Wyatt’s demons
are never far behind, always nipping at his heels for one. More. Fix.
Enter
Poppy Germaine, the band’s new social media consultant. A beautiful bombshell
who somehow manages to get underneath Wyatt’s skin, Poppy’s an addiction Wyatt
can get behind. And even though she’s with the label—and therefore
off-limits—he craves her. Needs her.
Except Poppy isn’t actually a social media consultant.
She’s the daughter of the label’s CEO, sent undercover to babysit Wyatt and
keep him from falling off the wagon again. Proving herself to her father is
Poppy’s only goal—until she finds herself in Wyatt’s bed. But if Wyatt
discovers the truth, it could send him spiraling all over again…
Excerpt
For a man who’d spent years,
decades, running from his emotions, it was a strange place to find himself. It
scared him.
She scared him.
Eyes still closed, he laid down the
first of the drum fills, adding a few extra flourishes because that’s how he
was hearing it in his head. Played through the whole song from memory, then did
it again and again, embellishing it a little more each time through.
It didn’t take long for his arms and
pecs to start aching—it had been too long since he’d played the drums on a
daily basis—but he played through it, pounding away at the skins with
everything he had in him.
Fourth time through the song, he
switched to “Closer,” then to “In the A.M.,” then to “Deified.” By the time
he’d run through those a couple of times, his biceps were burning, his hands
throbbing. And still he didn’t stop.
Instead, he switched on the recorder
he always kept next to his drum kit and started wailing away, playing the beat
that had been in his head since he’d seen Poppy waiting for him in her doorway
last night, arms open and face welcoming. The melody had started then, in the
back of his head, and by the time he’d had her up against the wall it had been
a towering crescendo of drumbeats that he couldn’t ignore even if he’d wanted
to.
Which he hadn’t. It had been too
long since music had burned inside him like that.
He played the song through the way
he heard it, keeping a fast thirty-two-beat rhythm on the hi-hat while he
worked the snare, the bass, and the floor tom in alternating rhythms. It
sounded good, really good, and as he banged out a long, elaborate fill on the
toms and crash cymbals, he knew he was onto something.
Though all he was doing was laying
down the beat, he could hear the song in his head so clearly. Jared coming in
with a quiet but pure guitar presence while Quinn took front and center with
his keyboards. Bass—whoever the fuck that turned out to be—would hang back with
Wyatt, playing low to underscore. And Ryder…fuck, Ryder’s voice would own this
song. He would destroy it. Just the thought sent excitement rioting through
him.
Usually, Wyatt and Quinn were the
music guys, while Ryder and Jared did most of the lyrics. Every once in a
while, though, a song would come to him fully formed, like “Seventeen Again”
had, an early version of the lyrics tearing through his head even as he pounded
away at the drums.
This song was like that, the words
running through his brain like a rain-swollen river, pouring out of him as fast
and powerfully as the music had. Even knowing they weren’t perfect, he sang
them aloud, let the recorder get every syllable.
When it was over, he ran through the
song over and over again while everything was still fresh in his mind. Playing
and singing, singing and playing, until his shirt was drenched in sweat and his
arms felt like they were going to fall off.
And still he played. Still he wailed
away at the drums like the demons of hell were after him. Or worse, like the
sins of his past had finally caught up to him after all the years he’d run and
all the drugs he’d used to keep them at bay.
And maybe they had. Maybe they had.
Since he couldn’t do anything about
it, he played instead.
Long after sweat rolled into his
eyes and poured down his face.
Long after his shoulders and biceps
and pecs cramped up.
Long, long after blisters formed
between his fingers.
He played and played and played,
like these drums were the only thing standing between him and hell. And like
getting this one song right was his only chance at salvation.
At one point, the blister on his
right index finger cracked open and started to bleed. He grabbed one of the
clean towels he always kept next to the kit, tore a strip off it, and kept
playing. When his left index finger followed suit a couple of minutes later, he
did the same thing. And then he played through that, too.
The pain was there, his nerve
endings sending agonized alerts to his brain, but he ignored them. Compartmentalized
them. Put them in a part of his brain he didn’t need to access to play, and
then concentrated on the music. On the beat. Right now, it was the only thing
that mattered.
About the Author
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Tracy
Wolff collects books, English degrees and lipsticks and has been known to
forget where--and sometimes who--she is when immersed in a great novel. At six
she wrote her first short story--something with a rainbow and a prince--and at
seven she forayed into the wonderful world of girls lit with her first Judy
Blume novel. By ten she'd read everything in the young adult and classics
sections of her local bookstore, so in desperation her mom started her on romance
novels. And from the first page of the first book, Tracy knew she'd found her
life-long love. Now an English professor at her local community college, she
writes contemporary romance and erotic romance as Tracy Wolff, paranormal
romance and urban fantasy as Tessa Adams and young adult novels as Tracy Deebs.
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