Available September 23rd!
Rhythm is the heart of every song.
Jase Collins lives for the stage and the perks of rock
stardom. His wild antics and high-profile affairs have
earned the sexy drummer
the title of Hot Wired’s bad boy. He’s not quite as jaded as
his fans think—but
just jaded enough not to recognize the best thing that’s
ever happened to him
until she walks out of his life. And he doesn’t even know
her name.
But
without harmony a man is lost.
Fallon Morgan has had her life mapped out since high school.
She’s earned a full ride scholarship to UCLA with the
driving goal of earning
her doctorate. Nothing can derail her dreams—except maybe a
one-night stand
with the infamous Jase Collins. His chilly reception the
morning after
convinces her to put her biggest mistake in the past and
move on without
looking back.
When two hearts begin to beat as
one…
When Fallon’s life takes a dramatic turn, she finds herself
with no one else to turn to for help. Jase is obnoxious,
demanding, and yet
surprisingly tender. Though it chafes her to depend on him,
the more time she
spends with him changes her perceptions of the bad boy
rocker. With each
passing day she finds more and more faith in the man behind
the public persona.
If she can learn to trust her feelings, she might be willing
to risk her heart.
They
could find themselves Lost in the
Beat!
Every cell in Fallon’s body
wanted
to rebel on principal. Like the good girl she was, she
succumbed to Jase’s
demands. “Do you ever not get what you
want?”
“Yeah.” He stepped right into her
personal space, knocking his very naked chest against her
breasts.
The way her nipples protruded
upon
contact, they might as well have been naked against his
flesh. The simultaneous
dampness in her panties unnerved her. Damn her traitorous
body! She ignored the
pulsing between her thighs and coerced her libido to focus
on him and not her
body’s
yearnings.
He lifted his hand and wrapped
his
fingers around her ponytail. A slow, gentle pull on her hair
and he notched her
head back. “Twice last year I didn’t get
what I wanted.” He sounded put
out by the
inconvenience.
Proof he
lives a charmed life! That
was as good as always getting
his way in her valuation. She’d endured many more
disappointments than that in
the past
year.
His sapphire-blue eyes looked
black
in the dim lighting. “Care to know what those two
were?”
If she said no, then he’d suspect
she predicted those disappointments centered on
her.
“I’ll take your silence as a yes.
Number
one…I didn’t want Sam and Fang together.” Surprised, her
eyes widened at his
confession. The tabloids would pay good money for that juicy
tidbit. “Didn’t
think they were right for one another. Gave them a lot of
hell for that.” He
shrugged. “My accident—you heard about that, right?” At her
nod, he went on. “It
reminded me how short life is, so I gave them my blessing to
be together.”
Fallon licked her lips,
suspecting
his sister hadn’t really needed his blessing to do what she
wanted. “It was the
right thing to
do.”
A humorous glint sparkled in his
eyes. “I’m not known for doing the right thing,
darlin’. Like now.”
She frowned. “What do you
mean?”
He adjusted his hand, sliding it
along her ponytail, before burying his fingers into the coil
of her strands
beneath the snug grip of the rubber band. His other arm
curled around her shoulders,
drawing her tight against his frame. Her heart pounded in
her ears, and he
smelled
good.
Jase nipped her bottom lip and at
her sharp gasp, he took advantage and slid his tongue into
her mouth. The cool
minty taste of him verified he’d taken the time to brush his
teeth.
Her eyelids fluttered shut, and
she
groaned upon his first contact, a slow drag of his tongue
against hers. The
immediate surge of wetness that drenched her panties
scandalized her.
Her eyelids snapped open, and she
spied
him watching her. Fine lines creased the corners of his
eyes. Again and again
his tongue caressed hers, reminding her how he’d licked her
breasts and between
her legs.
More moisture dampened her
panties,
and her passage clenched in need. She compressed her thighs,
but that action
caused her ache to grow instead of abate as she’d intended.
He withdrew from her
mouth, and she almost botched stifling her groan of
disappointment. Awed by the
effect Jase asserted over her body, she stared at his lips.
She’d lost all
sense of restraint when he’d put them on
her.
Just
like the first time.
“You were
the second thing I wanted last year.” He removed his arm
from her shoulders and
ran his thumb along her jaw. “I had private investigators
search for you, but
they repeatedly came up
empty-handed.”
Stunned by the admission, she
wasn’t
sure what to make of it or if she even believed him. “Why’d
you have P.I.’s
looking for
me?”
“Because you’re the one that got
away.”
Jase looked serious. He didn’t flinch away from her
direct stare. Didn’t
grin, didn’t even blink. But the idea that she was ‘the one
that got away’ was
ludicrous…Fallon snorted, calling bullshit. She bet he said
that to every woman
he wanted to screw. While he could have his pick of women,
she was a convenient
lay.
I am no one’s dupe.
“This chick isn’t stupid enough
to
believe that
line.”
A flash of hurt pinched his
features. His mouth parted as if he’d say something, but he
settled for shaking
his head and dragging his fingers through his
hair.
Their sultry spell demolished,
she watched
him, refusing to allow herself to regret her callous
honesty. He could have any
woman he wanted, but she wasn’t for
sale.
Jase released his hold on her and
picked
up the keys and cell she’d dropped on the floor. He placed
them on the counter
and met her gaze dead-on. “You’re obviously not as intelligent
as I thought you
were
either.”
Gracen is a
hopeless daydreamer masquerading as a “normal” person in
southern society. When
not writing, she’s a full-time basketball/lacrosse/guitar
mom for her two sons
and a devoted wife to her real-life hero-husband of over
twenty years. She has an
unusual relationship with her muse, Dom, but credits all her
creative success
to his brilliant mind. She’s addicted to writing, paranormal
romance novels and
movies, Alabama football, and coffee...addictions are not
necessarily in order
of priority. She’s convinced coffee is nectar from the gods
and when blending
coffee and writing together it generates the perfect
creative merger. Many of
her creative worlds are spawned from coffee highs and Dom’s
aggressive demands.
Synopsis: 
