Synopsis
“I wasn’t
looking for love, only a good time and a way to tour the world with a rock band
when he came along and hit me like a hurricane. Nothing could have prepared for
me for the complexity that was Will Cullen. He hid a secret that would devour
me whole and spit me out. The only problem I had was how did I let go when I
decided to give my heart to the very man I would never be able to control and
who would always be just beyond my reach?” – Laurel Munsen
Will Cullen has always been comfortable in his own skin,
even it was behind the scenes as the bass player for Scarlet Fever. He’s always
known he was gay and accepted his sexuality even if he couldn’t be out and
proud as a member of one of the most popular rock bands in the world.
Laurel was supposed to be a diversion, a beard to hide
behind while he and his lover, drummer Grant MacMullen, continued their hot and
heavy relationship. Grant breaks his heart and admits there can never be a
future between them.
It is Laurel who picks up the pieces and although he knows
what they have together is wrong and conforming to society’s standards of what
love supposed to be, how can he rectify his strong attraction and desire for
men while he is falling in love with a woman?
Both Laurel and Will learn the fluidity of human emotions
and together, they gather the strength and courage to live life, understand
each other and love with heart, body, mind and soul.
Note: This story is about a homosexual man who happens to
fall in love with a heterosexual woman but it does not negate his homosexual
status nor is the author implying sexuality is a choice; rather that most of
the time, we don’t and cannot choose the person we fall in love with and decide
to give our heart and soul.
Meet Selene
Selene Chardou is a world
traveler and the alter-ego of Elle Chardou.
Ms. Chardou’s writing is all
about hot romance and exciting times with the wild, damaged, out of control
and/or rich and famous set in the New Adult
realm.
She is currently working on
The Will to Love, the second novel in the Scarlet Fever Series, which
chronicles the relationship of Will Cullen and Laurel Munsen. She is also
working on Deadly Seduction, the first novel in The Rough Riders series, which
chronicles the issues between three Motorcycle Clubs, and various criminal
elements in the tri-city area of Reno, Lake Tahoe and Carson City in Northern
Nevada.
Ms. Chardou has lived abroad
in Stockholm (Sweden), Manchester (England), Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay
Area and Portland. She currently resides in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Buy Rock My Heart (Scarlet Fever #1)
TEASER..
Will
walked outside and knelt before me. “Fuck. What the hell did I do now?”
“Nothing,”
I said before I turned to look at the pool and swallowed, the harsh bitterness
of the Xanax pill still left in my mouth. “I realize everything that has
happened between us is on me. Grant always came first and I was a distant
second but now that he’s gone, I truly wonder if there is any room past that
empty spot he’s left inside of you for me? We don’t choose who we fall in love
with and God knows if I could take my feelings back for you, I would.”
I
paused and stared into those vast pools of blue. “But I can’t and I won’t. Now,
the onus is on you. Do you or don’t you want to be with me? If you can’t, I
truly understand because it just isn’t the way you’re hardwired. We were never
supposed to be in the first place. However, if you do want me, then it has to
be just you and I. No one else and certainly no one night stands or
interlopers. I have to know I can trust you or we won’t work out. Do you
understand that?”
He
nodded, his silky blond hair blowing in the soft breeze. “Of course I want to
be with you or I wouldn’t have said no to coming out and I sure as hell
wouldn’t have invited you to Vegas. If this works out and we sign this
contract, this affects your life just as much as it does mine. I can understand
if what we have isn’t important enough for you to uproot your life and change
everything just to be with me.”
“Oh,
but it is…and my question to you is can you make that sacrifice because no
matter how you look at our situation, you are doing something that is against
your very nature. You’re denying a part of yourself to be with me and I can’t
help but feel like I am the most selfish bitch in the world for making you do
that.”
“Listen
to me,” Will said as he grabbed my jaw with both hands and held my face softly.
“I’m not doing anything I don’t want to do. If you’ll have me then I’m yours.
It’s as simple as that.”
I
nodded and we kissed each other on the lips before I embraced him. I couldn’t
understand why I was holding on so tight and then it hit me like a wrecking
ball. I was scared if I didn’t hold him like he was the only man in the world,
he might disappear and leave me all alone with my emotions and the thought was
too much to bear.
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