Stay up all night with the sexy rockers in Stage Dive, the epic New Adult series from New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott, author of Lick and Play.
As the lead singer of Stage Dive, Jimmy is used to getting whatever he wants, whenever he wants it, whether it's booze, drugs, or women. However, when a PR disaster serves as a wake-up call about his life and lands him in rehab, he finds himself with Lena, a new assistant to keep him out of trouble.
Lena's not willing to take any crap from the sexy rocker and is determined to keep their relationship completely professional, despite their sizzling chemistry. But when Jimmy pushes her too far and Lena leaves, he realizes that he may just have lost the best thing that ever happened to him.
The Stage Dive series by Kylie Scott:
“Lena, you seen my old black Led Zep shirt?”“Nope.”“You sure?” His brows became one dark cranky line. The scratches on his face were healing well, thank goodness. Though it didn’t reduce my desire to throttle his mother on a daily basis.“Yes. I haven’t seen it.”Can’t find it anywhere…”“And this is a surprise, how?” I slipped my hands into my back jean’s pockets. “Jimmy, you own more clothing than Cher, Brittney, and Elvis, put together. Things are bound to go missing.”“Sure you haven’t seen it?”“For goodness sake, what do you think, Jimmy? That I stole it to sleep in or something?” I laughed bitterly. Sure as hell, the truth deserved a good mocking. I’d sunk so despicably low.I hadn’t even meant to steal the stupid thing, but the shirt had been mixed up with my laundry a few days ago. It’d been the first top I laid my hand on after stepping out of the shower, ready to go to bed. Without thought, I’d put it on and it’d been so soft, the scent of him lingering beneath the laundry detergent. Every night since, I’d found myself in it come bedtime. My shame knew no limits. And no, I still hadn’t quit. The words still hadn’t come even close to leaving my mouth.He frowned. “No.”“That I have some deep secret longing to feel close to you resulting in my stealing your shirt like some creepy perv?”“Course I don’t fucking think that,” he replied crankily, reaching up to grip the top of the doorframe. All of his bulging muscles stretched the arms of his white T-shirt in the nicest way. It was all I could do not to start drooling, my heart beat taking up residence somewhere down between my thighs. And who could blame it? Not me. Maybe if I got laid, this would go away and things would return to normal. It’d seemed safer to avoid rubbing up against any men just in case I got carried away and started dating again. This new situation, however, changed everything.“Well, of course not! That would be crazy.” And wasn’t that the god’s honest truth? Cray-zeee. Lock me up and throw away the key because it wasn’t like I didn’t know better.“Just can’t figure out where the hell it could be.”Angels couldn’t have smiled as innocently. They might have tried, but they would have failed, the dirty-mouthed, winged, little liars. “Jimmy, I don’t know where it is. But I’ll look around for it later, okay?”“Yeah,” he said, and then added as an afterthought, “and stop looking at me weird.”“I’m not!”
This is book 3 in Kylie Scott's Stage Dive series and I have to say that Lead is my favorite book so far! Kylie Scott has done it again, grabbing the reader's attention, willing them to turn each page to find out what happens to Stage Dive's front man Jimmy and how he handles his battle with addiction after leaving rehab. I give this book 4 rocking roll stars and highly recommend that everyone one-click this series because it is a must read!
Lead opens up with Jimmy's bandmates, one of which is his brother, hiring Lena to be his "sober companion" event though she has absolutely no experience in counseling or dealing with recovering addicts. Jimmy highly protests, thinking that like those before her, she won't last a couple of days with him and Lena is determined to prove him wrong.
The banter between the bandmates, especially the hilarious comments from Mal, leave the reader laughing as they turn each page, watching these famous friends who are now a family, support each other in any way that they can. They strive to ensure that Jimmy will make it through the transition to being a sober rock and roll icon, and become stronger in his sobriety before they have to go back on tour.
Jimmy seems outwardly angry all of the time, often taking it out on Lena, who gives it back as much as she takes. Lena, who is running from her own demons at home, is looking to put her life back together after it was torn apart by her sister and her ex-boyfriend. Little by little Lena seems to break down Jimmy's walls, and she actually starts to develop feelings other than friendship for her brooding employer. That is when she decides that maybe her time working for Jimmy has run it's course. But when she tries to secure her replacement and train him before she leaves, Jimmy puts a stop to that idea immediately. He refuses to let her leave, that she is the only one that can help him despite the feelings that she may have.
What ensues are several horribly orchestrated dates, a great deal of early morning jogs and a lot of yelling, all with the end goal of Lena getting over her feelings for Jimmy. When none of those ideas actually seem to work, Jimmy suggests the one thing that Lena wants, but not in the way she had hoped for. Will her heart get broken? Will she be able to walk away from her sexy, metro-sexual, rock star or will he ruin her for all others who may come later? You will have to read the book to find out how it plays out for this duo, and let me tell you that you won't regret it!
Kylie is a long time fan of romance, rock music, and B-grade horror films. Based in Queensland, Australia with her two children and one delightful husband, she reads, writes and never dithers around on the internet.
