ABOUT THE BOOK
On the eve of my eighteenth birthday, I fell in love with a rock god.
Light-haired, green-eyed, and carved to heavenly perfection. Oliver. He’s the guitarist of Ritual Disruption, and he writes songs that are as devastating as him.
Who would have thought that I, Ivy Abbott, would capture his attention? On tour with my brother’s band, Bleeding Moonlight, I hear what they say about me. Boring, shy, straitlaced. Compared to my famous sibling, I’m nothing special.
They’re wrong.
After all, what’s more special than being chosen by a god?
But where gods go, demons follow…
Jamie’s shared the stage with Oliver for years, but they’re nothing alike. He’s dark where Oliver’s light. Jamie claims his bandmate is nothing but a fraud who wants to use me and toss me aside. I don’t believe him, no matter how much he insists he only wants to help me. Jamie is an addict who steals kisses and spreads dirty lies.
Lies. Lies. Lies.
Or so I tell myself.
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EXCERPT
The man’s features came into focus frame by frame. Long, booted legs crossed at the ankles. Elegant hands resting on black jean-covered thighs. Narrow waist, wide shoulders, and a tattooed neck. My gaze landed on his face, and I froze in place.
He was the most heartbreakingly handsome man I’d ever seen.
I could barely breathe as I took in his blond hair, light brows, and aristocratic features that the boys of my dreams couldn’t hold a candle to. When he tipped his head back to laugh at something the blonde on his right said, my gaze licked along the sharp edge of his jaw as if it were a lollipop, and I’d never tasted sugar before.
Suddenly, he glanced at me and our eyes met. We were still at least ten feet apart, but it was as if the distance between us folded in on itself and shrank to nothing.
I’d never believed in love at first sight. That was something reserved for fairytales and romcoms, not real life. But as I looked at this man, everything inside of me seized in a way I’d never felt before. It was as if my body was telling me everything I’d believed up until now had been a lie.
There was only one truth in this world. And that was him.
The arrogant smile on his face melted away to make room for a tantalizing smirk. Inch by inch, his gaze moved from my face to my collarbones, across my chest, and all the way down to my shoes. When his eyes sprung back up, I prayed that by some act of God, he was as affected as I was.
Dismissing the two girls with a flick of his hand, he placed his elbows on his knees and beckoned me closer with his fingers. My steps moved with the music, each one impossibly loud in my ears, as if counting down moments until nothing would be the same ever again.
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AUTHOR BIO
Gabrielle Sands is an author who loves writing romantic stories with dark themes and strong heroines. Her characters take control of their lives and find love in the process.
As an avid reader, Gabrielle is inspired by books across a multitude of genres: contemporary romance, reverse harem, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, high-fantasy, grimdark fantasy, science fiction, literary fiction, and so much more.
Before becoming an author, Gabrielle spent nearly a decade in business, learning all about strategy and spreadsheets. She loves traveling and living in new places with her husband. Her favorite countries to visit are Mexico, Spain, and France. When she's not writing or planning her next trip, she's probably eating something with cheese on it and drinking wine.
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I have never read this author before. This is her second book and the first one was a reverse harem story, I don't like multi partner books so I have never read it and have no plans to but this story is connected to this one in a slight way.
Cole who is a band member from the first book has a sister, Ivy and at 17 he takes her with them on a two week tour. They are not headliners and the headliners are a different band that ends up liking his sister Ivy. They try and protect her from the band but she is a a strong headed teen and so she gets away from them often and hangs around with the other bands manager, Oliver who is in his twenties. Oliver has a problem child, I guess you can say, Jaimie and he is high a lot and on drugs and he tries to help Jaimie keep his addiction under control.
This is a story really about Oliver, Jaimie and Ivy. The beginning happens 2 years before and takes up the first 30% of the book. It was pretty ugly at times and I almost gave up on the story. I don't want to spoil too much of it but I almost quit reading it a few times. I will say it is well written and its supposed to be ugly because the book picks up several years later and thats when the book becomes interesting and pretty awesome. This part of story centers on Jamie and Ivy and Oliver has a smaller part of this story.
Jaimie has a lot to make up with people over and he was so awesome on the way he works to atone for his sins. I loved that Ivy makes him really work for it and I loved how she opens her mind and heart up to him.
Oliver, his character comes thru in this part of the story and I loved how he ends up getting what he deserves. I hated how Ivy waits around for him in the intervening years but I loved how he gets exposed to Ivy.
Honestly this story was something I had never read before. It has depth and deals with addiction and manipulation. I ended up LOVING this story so much. Though the beginning was tougher to read. Ivy is so young and naive in the first part but she really grows up in the second part and I loved that Jaimie was a part of that.
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