Author Name: Lilah Suzanne
Book Name: Burning Tracks
Spotlight Series
Book: Two
Can be read as a standalone
Release
Date: August 11, 2016
Blurb:
In
the sequel to Broken Records, Gwen Pasternak has it all: a job she loves as a
celebrity stylist and a beautiful wife, Flora. But as her excitement in working
with country music superstar Clementine Campbell grows, Gwen second-guesses her
quiet domestic bliss. Meanwhile, her business partner, Nico Takahashi and his
partner, reformed bad-boy musician Grady Dawson, face uncertainties of their
own.
Pages or Words: 224 pages, 62,000 words
Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, Lesbian
Romance, Romance Rom-Com
Excerpt:
“There’s a reason you two aren’t
allowed to hang out alone.” Arms crossed, one impeccable eyebrow raised, lips
twisted, hair artfully tousled, and dressed to the nines: Alexander Wang
black-on-black tropical-printed board shorts, a slim fit black-and-white chino
and matching black lapel jacket, black boots, and a black and white scarf to
tie it all together. “Nico,” Gwen says.
“Nico?” Grady is up in a flash.
“You came?”
Nico’s face softens into his
Grady look. “Of course I came. Did you really think you were getting rid of me
that easily?” Grady comes closer, and Nico brushes a spiraled lock of hair from
his face. “I’m sorry it took me so long. There were storms over Dallas, and I
got stuck on the tarmac with a dead phone. I barely made my connection, and the
clusterfuck of morons known as the United gate at JFK could not get its shit
together, and I may be banned outright from Charlotte-Douglas International,
can you believe they flag you as a security risk and hold you in a room with no
phone signal or Wi-Fi just for threatening one person with shoving that
goddam intercom up their—” He opens his
arms for Grady; his look of annoyance slips away the moment they touch.
“Anyway, I’m here.”
Grady sighs, crowds into Nico’s
space, and tucks himself into Nico’s body. Much better, a perfect fit. “God, I
love you.”
“I love you, too.” Nico sinks one
hand into his hair, strokes the nape of his neck with other, breathes him in,
and closes his eyes. “I’m so sorry. About the apartment and taking off and not
being here yesterday, I tried to so hard to make it because I know how
difficult it is for you. You shouldn’t have been alone.”
Grady sniffs and holds him
tighter. “It’s okay. We’re okay. I’m sorry, too.”
Still ensnared in the sheets and
duvet and barely awake, Gwen presses her hands to her cheeks and awws. “You guys,” she coos.
Grady lifts his head from Nico’s
neck to smile at Gwen. “I wasn’t alone, though.”
“Mmm” Nico says. “And how much
trouble did she get you into?”
“None,” Gwen says,
defensive. Here she kept Grady safe and sound, searched all over Nashville and
Las Vegas while he was off burying himself in work and what thanks does she
get? None.
But then Grady smirks and says,
“Kind of a lot.”
“Grady.” Gwen throws a pillow at
him. “You’re such a tattletale, gosh.”
He bends to whisper something in
Nico’s ear, and Gwen doesn’t miss the way his lips drag and linger on the shell
of it, or the way Nico’s breath catches and his eyes roll back. When Nico lifts
Grady’s shirt and traces around the tattoos with reverent fingers, Gwen takes
that as her cue to extricate herself from the bed, put on some pants and a bra,
and go fetch her luggage.
“‘Kay you guys have fun and make
sure to change the sheets when you’re finished.”
“Wait.” Nico tugs Grady’s shirt
down. Then he goes to the case he always has nearby. “You have trouble of your
own, Gwen. Thought you might want to know about this.”
Gwen catches the magazine and
folded-up papers he tosses her way: screen grabs from a few entertainment
websites printed out in black and white.
Is This
Clementine Campbell’s Girlfriend? Our source says, “It wouldn’t surprise me.”
Clementine
and Gal Pal Definitely More Than Pals Sunning On Vegas Pool Deck.
Our
exclusive source and close confidant of both says: Clementine’s married
girlfriend “would cheat for sure. She was always touching her. There’s been an
energy between them from the very beginning.”
There are
pictures: her rubbing sunscreen on Clementine’s bare back, which looks far
steamier in a fuzzy long-range picture than it actually was; a picture of them
from the back at the store in the Venetian with their hands clasped and
Clementine curled in close and her lips on Gwen’s cheek; and most damning of
all, grinding together at the VIP club at the Bellagio just last night.
“I don’t—” Frantic and confused, she
flaps the magazine and printouts in the air. “What is this? This isn’t— Nico, I
didn’t, I swear.”
Nico holds both hands up. “Hey, I
am well aware of the slander of tabloids. I get it.” He gives her a sympathetic
look. “I’m just not sure Flora is going to.”
List your books and let
fans know where they can find them.
My first book is Pivot
and Slip, a novella about a former Olympic-bound swimmer turned Yoga
instructor and a down-and-out boxer who fall for each other, and find new
dreams along the way.
The second book I wrote
is Spice, about Simon, a relationship advice columnist for a women’s
magazine who is not so great at taking his own advice, and Benji, an adorably
nerdy IT tech who captures Simon’s heart.
Broken Records is my third book, and the first in my
Spotlight Series. Broken Records follows L.A. stylist Nico who is burned out
and cynical when he the meets charming and affable country singer Grady Dawson,
who has a reputation as a heartbreaker and badboy, and who Nico finds
irresistible despite his misgivings.
And that leads to Burning
Tracks, the second novel in the Spotlight series, where Nico’s
business partner Gwen takes center stage as she struggles with finding her
place in Nashville, an attraction to music star Clementine Campbell, and
whether or not the life she’s worked so hard to achieve is what she wants at
all.
All of my books are
available through Interlude Press as hard copy or ebook, and also through major
retailers like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, AllRomance Ebooks, iTunes, and
Smashwords.
Meet the author:
Lilah Suzanne has been writing actively since the sixth grade,
when a literary magazine published her essay about an uncle who lost his life
to AIDS. A freelance writer, she has also authored a children’s book and has a
devoted following in the fan fiction community. She is also the author of the
Interlude Press books Spice, Pivot and Slip, and Broken Records, which was
named a Top Pick by RT Book Reviews Magazine.
Where to find the author:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lilahsuzanne
Twitter: www.twitter.com/lilahsuzanne
Other: www.lilahsuzanne.com
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