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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.
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.
EXCERPT:
This time she would finally crack
him.
Ignoring stares
from her cellmates, Lita jogged in place, preparing for the confrontation with
James, her band manager. This was her ritual before shows, too. It loosened the
limbs, shook out the demons. She took her role as drummer for Old News
seriously, same way she considered riling up James a form of art. For four
freaking years, they’d been repeating this song and dance—and Lita was over it.
Today was the day James lost his cool. The way he’d lost it the night they met.
Remembering the
state she’d been in when James found her, Lita jogged a little faster. At
twenty-three, she wasn’t that scrawny, starving girl now. Not in most ways, anyway. The memory of what
took place that night still had the ability to steal her breath, make her
restless. But unlike the girl she’d been at nineteen, Lita didn’t wait for fate
to wave its magical hand. No. She grabbed fate’s wrist and shook, shook, until the pieces fell into an
acceptable pattern. That modus operandi is what had landed her inside a musky,
Wilshire division holding cell of LA County’s jail system.
Lita didn’t have
a head for numbers, but was pretty damn sure today would mark the twenty-first
time James had bailed her out of a jail-type situation. Looking after the
interests of Old News’s members was his job. Their relationship, however, fell
outside the parameters of a typical musician-manager arrangement. Not that he
would ever admit it. No, James simply continued to show up when Lita got into
trouble, lecturing her about proper behavior on the way to dropping her off.
And leaving. He left every time, that
distinguished jaw of his firmly set, sunglasses hiding the guilt she knew
lurked in his eyes four years later.
Not this time. Last night, Lita had gone
above and beyond to ensure this morning wrought one of two outcomes: James
quitting, giving up on her like everyone else did eventually, or his control finally slipped. One way
or another, she wouldn’t be in limbo come tonight. She’d been there too long.
Lita stopped
jogging when she heard the jingling of the guard’s keys. James was right on
time, as usual. Her cellmates craned their necks, some coming to their feet in
the hopes they were being released. Lita stowed a pang of sympathy and whipped
her hair into a quick ponytail. The guard cast a tired-eyed glance in her
direction and unlocked the door. “Lita Regina, your bail has been posted.”
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.
Publishing Credits
Baiting
the Maid of Honor,
Entangled Brazen, June 2014
Unfixable (New Adult), Entangled Embrace, April 2014
Protecting
What's Theirs
(novella), Entangled Brazen, March 2014
Staking
His Claim, Entangled Brazen, February 2014
Asking
For Trouble,
Entangled Brazen, November 2013
Officer
Off Limits,
Entangled Brazen, June 2013
His Risk
to Take, Entangled Brazen, May 2013
Protecting
What's His,
Entangled Brazen, February 2013
Upcoming
releases:
Owned by
Fate, Entangled Brazen, September
2014
Exposed
by Fate, Entangled Brazen, October 2014
Riskier
Business, Entangled Brazen, December 2014
Risking
It All (Crossing the Line 1), Entangled
Select, January 2015
Driven by
Fate, Entangled Brazen, February 2015
Chase Me (Broke & Beautiful 1), Avon Impulse, March
2015
Need Me (Broke & Beautiful 2), Avon Impulse, April
2015
Off Base (novella) self-published, May 2015
Up in
Smoke (Crossing the Line 2), Entangled
Select, June 2015
Make Me (Broke & Beautiful 3), Avon Impulse, August
2015
Crashed
Out (Made in Jersey 1), Entangled
Brazen, December 2015
Boiling
Point (Crossing the Line 3), Entangled
Select, January 2016
Rough
Rhythm, 1001 Dark Nights Project, March
2016
Thrown
Down (Made in Jersey 2), Entangled
Brazen, April 2016
Raw
Redemption
(Crossing the Line 4), Entangled Select, June 2016
Worked Up (Made in Jersey 3), Entangled Brazen, August 2016
Wound
Tight (Made in Jersey 4), Entangled
Brazen, December 2016
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