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Wulf, and I keep getting emails like, <i><b>"AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED?" </b></i></div>
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Then the emails started. Not to
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And so I continued their story in
Lizzy's books (Billionaires in Disguise: Lizzy, <i>Falling Hard, </i>etc.), having her go to their wedding because people wanted to see the wedding. </div>
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More emails. <i><b>AND THEN WHAT
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So, I wrote some epilogues for
some boxed sets where people paid 99c and got a whole bunch of books by a bunch of authors (<i>The LOL Boxes </i>and the <i>Red Hot Boxed Sets</i>), so that
was a good deal for everybody. They got an epilogue and a bunch of books for a cheap price.</div>
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So, the next couple of books that
I write (after this one, final Killer Valentine book because I'm also getting
emails about <i><b>AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED WITH XAN AND GEORGIE?)</b></i> will be the books
about Wulf's little sister, Flicka. You'll see Wulf and Rae's baby in that one. Yes, it
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<br />Lay Your Hands On Me (Billionaires in Disguise: Georgie and Rock Stars in Disguise: Xan, #3)<br />Nothing Else Matters (Billionaires in Disguise: Georgie and Rock Stars in Disguise: Xan, #4)<br />“Montreux, A Rae and Wulf Epilogue #3” (Billionaires in Disguise: Rae)<br /><br />The Rock Star’s Secret Baby (Rock Stars in Disguise: Cadell)<br />“Dream On” and "Keep Dreaming" – Epilogue currently only available to newsletter subscribers.</div>
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Santa, Baby (Rock Stars in Disguise: Peyton)</div>
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<br />Runaway Princess Bride (Billionaires in Disguise: Flicka) - Winter, 2017<br />Stiff Competition (Runaway Billionaires #3, Maxence) - 2018<br /><br />You don't have to read everything perfectly in this order. I try to recap or make books as standalone as possible. The mini-series within this overall list, such as the Lizzy books or the Georgie books, should be read in order.<br /><br />Also, you might want to sign up for my newsletter mailing list so that you never miss when I finish a new book or when a book goes on sale: <a href="http://blairbabylon.blogspot.com/p/never-miss-sale.html">http://blairbabylon.blogspot.com/p/never-miss-sale.html</a><br /><br />And I have a readers' group here on Facebook where I just hang out and talk, if you're interested. We also do giveaways most weeks: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlairBabylonBooks/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlairBabylonBooks/ </a>.</div>
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<span data-offset-key="8p7q0-2-0">I was chatting in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlairBabylonBooks/" target="_blank">my Facebook Readers' Group</a> tonight and thought that I would cross-post here at the blog.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8p7q0-2-0">So, what's an author's day like?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="39ngp-0-0">Just as a measure, I typed +2924 words today, which came out to about 1.5 scene-chapters. I think the "book"<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/stiff-drink-runaway-billionaires/id1141726644?mt=11" target="_blank"> (Arthur's book, Stiff Drink) </a>is 145,000 words so far, and I'm not at the end yet. I may have to publish this as a "duet," two books, maybe 3. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2ol0q-0-0">I'm at the point where everything is clear in the book, all the motivations and backgrounds and underlying stories, and I'm going back and making things clear. I probably added/subtracted words to 10 scenes today, maybe more. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8nrth-0-0">About 3K words is a good day for me. Rarely, I can get more than 5000 words, but I have to really know where and how it's going. Some days I only get a few hundred due to other things.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6fpv1-0-0">I took a few hours off to run to the grocery and booze store, homeschooling my 12-yo kid and being the mom, and talking to an author friend who was having some problems. I faffed around on Facebook for a while, talking about the publishing industry and chatting with other authors about going to the national RWA conference in Florida this summer. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9qc70-0-0">Other than that, I typed and edited most of the day. I started before 8 AM. It's almost midnight, and I'm going up to shower before I crash and start it all over again. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a8shs-0-0">Good night, all. See you on the flip side. </span></div>
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<span style="border: none;">One sexy, damaged tattoo artist, and one wounded girl<br />
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<span style="border: none;">One cocky tattoo artist with a fear of shopping and a<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532709614691277877.post-13062455154219293132016-01-26T16:27:00.000-08:002016-01-26T16:28:16.803-08:00Child Prodigies, the Arts Industry, and The Devil’s Violinist<div class="MsoNormal">
So, as I’ve said, I’m going to watch “The Devil’s Violinist,”
the movie, starring David Garrett and live-tweet it. Just to be fair, I am not
the normal, typical movie-watcher, and I feel like I need to come clean before
I do. I’m going to have to brag a little, but I need to present my bone fides.
I find it obnoxious when partially trained reviewers go to ludicrous snark
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First of all, I’ve read reviews. Most of them are less than
complimentary about several aspects of the movie. First of all, many people
have mentioned that the writing is less than stellar, to be polite. Bernard
Rose is listed as both the director and the writer. I loved “Immortal Beloved,”
but his more recent films have devolved, which worries me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So why do I get to judge, you ask? What skills do I have
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Okay, I’m a pretty good writer. I hold an MFA from Iowa,
which is the Juilliard for writers. The metaphor is apt for several reasons.
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop tends to attract the people who are already the very
best writers of the generation because The Workshop has the best reputation
(self-fulfilling prophecy) and the best financial aid. Why would anyone go to
USC and end up $100,000 in debt when they could go to the better-ranked Iowa (#1
according to all the grad school rankings) and emerge with no debt? Most people
who went to Iowa who become major talents are compelled or convinced to come
back and give seminars or teach, so the faculty and visiting faculty are
stellar. Also, it’s the literary program, the classical music of writing, as
opposed to Columbia University, which is more like the Berklee School of Music.
Twenty-three of the twenty-five students in my class (including me) have trad-published
a novel-length work of literary fiction, and I know why the other two didn’t.
There were big reasons, not just oopsie-reasons. I was the Truman Capote
Fellow, a very prestigious fellowship. Also, I’ve been on the USA Today
bestseller list five times in the past two years. Yeah, I get to judge the
writing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, David Garrett can play the violin, and I’m looking
forward to see what he’s going to do with Paganini. The thing is, I also get to
judge the acting. Garrett is about fourteen in this photo (right), and he had
been playing the violin since he was around four. He’s marvelous. He’s an
exceptional violinist.</div>
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The photo of me (left) is from when I was nine. I started
taking acting lessons when I was four and got my first big gig when I was five.
I worked for hours every day, long hours every week, on all the triple-threat
skills. I was one of those child actors who took classes and private lessons in
every spare second to hone my skills. I acted and modeled until I was about
sixteen, when I blew out my knee in ballet and, without ballet as the lynchpin,
decided to walk away (as best I could) from the performing arts. I don’t want
to discuss it much, other than to say that I did enough that I can judge the
acting. I’m also not going to get into my rant here about child labor, the
manufacture of child prodigies, and the arts, but no one escapes unscathed, or
even mostly whole, from that machine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Yep. Actor/Model as a kid. Writer as an adult. There was
more stuff in between and since. I’ve had an interesting life. When I do
something, I do it hard. And I don’t need a lot of sleep.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, I have some thoughts about the movie “The Devil’s
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From what I understand, the running time is 122 minutes, of
which over 40 minutes is music.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s not a dramatic movie. I don’t think you can quite
call it a musical, due to the genre promises that “musical” implies, but it’s more
of an opera, closer akin to “Tommy,” “Quadrophenia,” or “The Wall.” It’s about
a rock star, the music, and the life. Any time you cast a movie with non-actors
for authenticity, it shouldn’t be judged against films that aren’t comparable.
It’s a different art form. You have to come into it with different
expectations, and you have to establish a different rubric to judge it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And because I am a hell of a writer and an accomplished
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Soon, I will set up to watch the film and live-tweet, and
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I love music.</div>
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<i>Most </i>music.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can listen to Eddie Van Halen shred “Eruption” on a loop
or listen to Imagine Dragons, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder, Aerosmith,
Alicia Keys, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga, Queen,
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, No Doubt, Rush, The Stones, Nirvana, The Who, Stevie
Nicks, U2, Taylor Swift, Lauryn Hill, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Joel, The
Decembrists, or most classical music for hours.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I listen to a lot of classical music. When I write, I
prefer to listen to orchestral classical music or opera in Italian so that those words don’t get in the way of my words. I love everything about classical
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Except for the frickin’ violins.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But I’m a little odd. When I’m listening to music and close
my eyes, I see colors and shapes, and the music shifts around in front of me in
a way that is not related to the mixing for the speakers. I have synesthesia,
which means that I am “a synesthete.” It means that my sensory neurons interact
with each other in nontypical ways.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To be clear, I’m not autistic. I can read facial expressions
and body language and get inside other people’s heads to the point where it’s
creepy. I’ll make eye contact until <i>you</i>
look away. It’s some of my other neurons that are crossed. It’s just an unusual
way to experience the world. It’s not so much a sensory disability as a sensory
bonus prize.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I also hear music when I read, as the words have rhythm and
specific words have tones, and yes, I use it in my writing. I have to be
careful not to go too far into it because it can become incomprehensible to other
people, but either it has seeped into the language enough or that enough people
have a low level of synesthesia that just about everyone understands bright
treble musical notes and dark, mournful low tones. I gave synesthesia to one
character (Alexandre) so I could let it out and play with it. I reread Nabokov
ravenously.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A fantastic artist and synesthete, <a href="http://www.melissasmccracken.com/">Melissa McCracken</a>, paints what she
sees, and she does a remarkable job of transforming a four-dimensional
experience (three dimensions plus time) into a two-dimensional canvas. It’s the
best representation of what it’s like to have synesthesia that I’ve seen. I
don’t see exactly the same things, but when I saw this painting of
“Hallelujah,” I knew immediately that it must be Leonard Cohen’s song and could
not be the chorus from Handel’s <i>Messiah</i>.
What I see is generally rounder and smoother, more like billowing fabric that
blossoms with colors, less spikey. I see different colors, but we both agree that the white in the foreground here is the most intense.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Classical music is especially friendly to synesthetes. The
first time my ballet teacher played proper classical music in class when I was
about six (Swan Lake), she could barely get me back to the barre because I was
pressing my head against the speaker. Some pop music is so busy with the
seven-second rule that it’s like watching a fireworks finale from inside a
popcorn popper for three and a half excruciating minutes. I’m a little more
tolerant than a lot of synesthetes in delving into pop music to find the
underlying elements and listening to those, but it’s still overwhelming
sometimes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Violins are especially problematic for me. I like classical
music, and I listen to a lot of symphonies and piano concertos, but I have
rarely listened to violin music, except for certain musicians. Within an
orchestra, the violins don’t bother me because the other instruments blend and
smooth away the problematic sounds, the buzz of the strings on the lower notes
and a shrill screech on the higher notes that are the higher harmonics of the
tone. The brass section is particularly important in blending out the painful tones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can only listen to three solo violinists: Jascha Heifetz, Itzhak
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That these three violinists play with a similar style isn’t
surprising. Itzhak Perlman has confirmed that <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sensorium/201202/the-red-his-e-string">he’s
a synesthete</a>, too, and David Garrett counts Perlman as one of his major
influences. For example, J.S. Bach’s “Sarabande,” I can only listen to those
three violinists play. Especially for the first few bars, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXk-GLoPwZU" target="_blank">those first low,dissonant tones</a>, listening to any other violinist is like iron-black,
silver-edged sawtooth spikes erupting from the ground all around me, and it
yanks down on my ears. It feels like someone stripping the nerves out of my
lower arms. It hurts. James Ehnes’s technique is supposedly flawless, but I
can’t listen to him play. I want to run my fingernails down a chalkboard and
chew aluminum foil afterward to get it out of my head. Joshua Bell’s colors are
monochromatic and flat, not nuanced, except when they’re shattering and like grating sandpaper on my palms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And before anyone gets snarky about David Garrett, please
don’t. I don’t snark about people, especially other authors and other artists.
People are dismissive of him in bizarre and reactionary ways that seem little
based in reality. Yes, he’s pretty. Yes, he’s popular. Get over it and listen to
how he plays the damn violin. If you’re talking about his hair or his
cheekbones, then you’re falling into the same hype trap that you’re pretending
to disdain. Seriously, when I read a review of his music that mentions his
hair, I know the reviewer is an idiot. It’s <i>exactly</i>
the same thing as a review that gushes about his looks and doesn’t mention his
music but with a troll’s evil intent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are many reasons why Garrett is outselling other
classical musicians, and if you can’t figure out what they are, then you need
to sit down, set your preconceptions aside, and listen more deeply. Technique
is craft. Craft is the foundation of the arts, but mere technique is just
draftsmanship. It’s tracing another person’s painting and coloring by numbers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Art is communication of what it means to be human, conveys
emotion, and causes an emotional change in the viewer/reader/listener.
Popularity is a measure of the effectiveness of communication. If no one responds,
it isn’t art. If a lot of people respond, it is the very definition of art.
Close your eyes and listen to Garrett play <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blairbabylonauthor/posts/1656468211284911">Bach’s
Sonata No. 2, here</a>. I don’t think I drew a breath for three minutes while I
listened to this because I didn’t want the rushing of the air in my head to
interfere with hearing it. Listen to that <i>emotion.</i>
Expressivity like that is <i>art.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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A very smart friend of mine said, “I think a lot of
commoners,” she was speaking of herself, bless her heart, “are put off by
classical music because they won't be valued as fans because they can't give a
technical 'educated' commentary. The genre is set up to make Joe Average feel
inferior.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Garrett doesn’t talk down to his audience like most
classical performers do. He gives them something familiar and that is widely
understood, like Metallica or Michael Jackson, and then he shows them
connections to classical music. That’s brilliant. That’s <i>communication,</i> and <i>that’s</i>
art.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All artists work with the tools of craft and the inspiration
and ride the blinding lightning bolt of art. Some are better at one than the
other. It is easier to explain why artists with better technique are “better,”
because technique can be objectively and rather easily explained, and it is
what can be taught. It’s why the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (my alma mater, don’t
want people to think I’m randomly bashing an MFA program,) concentrates on
dissecting and discussing prose at the word- and sentence-level. Technique is
easy to discuss.<o:p></o:p></div>
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my friends (after I have ruthlessly converted them to being David Garrett fans,
but they became freaky-psychotic fans all on their own,) have said that they
don’t know a lot about classical music, but they know how they feel when they
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The holidays are mostly over, and that means that it's time to unwind and relax with some great new books, thank heavens. I've got some great new picks this month! These books are great, absolutely wonderful, and I hope you enjoy them!<br />
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I'm doing a bit of relaxing, a bit of reading, etc. I've been beginning to work on the urban fantasy/paranormal romance that I'll put out early in 2016 that's based in the world of SM Reine. <b>If you haven't read Sara Reine's books, I <i>highly</i> recommend them. </b>Indeed, I recommend them <i>so much</i>. Not just because I'm going to write in her world. Her writing is lovely, and she creates long, convoluted, character-based plots that tie up beautifully after long, complex series. (Just in case you were wondering <i>why</i> I like her work, yeah, <i>maybe</i> they resonate with me for <i>some strange reason.) </i><b>I'll put the first book in her series in this email. They're really good. The first one is called <i>Death's Hand</i> and it's FREE everywhere. </b>Cool, huh?<br />
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Also, <b>I'm going to be writing a couple of "standalones" in 2016, </b>as "standalone" as any of my books <i>ever</i> are, anyway. I'm thinking that one, <b>which will be released in May, will be based on one of the guys at Georgie's wedding, </b>maybe one of the Earls or Princes that Alexandre was telling Georgie about. <b>Or maybe about Pierre's younger brother, Maxence </b>Grimaldi, who is heir to the throne of Monaco after Pierre, should anything, ahem, <i>happen</i> to Flicka's husband Pierre, like a sniper shot from a bell tower if Pierre doesn't pony up and tell Wulf anything he knows about Flicka's whereabouts. <i>Just sayin'. </i><br />
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As always, thank you so much for reading, and thank you for your support this last year. I'll do my best to drop lots of fun books in 2016.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532709614691277877.post-420310149854126872015-10-20T08:24:00.001-07:002015-10-20T08:26:39.397-07:00Nothing Else Matters -- October 27th! The Conclusion to Xan and Georgie!<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">from USA Today-Bestselling Author Blair Babylon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The nail-biting conclusion to the Billionaires in Disguise: Georgie and Xan series<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nothing Else Matters<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Georgie broke up with Xan Valentine, the lead singer for the rock band Killer Valentine, the guy that <i>Rolling Stone</i> calls “sex incarnate.” The magazine isn’t wrong, but they don’t know the half of it. He’s the alpha-est male who ever walked onto a stage or into a bedroom and might be crazy, and Georgie is definitely in love with him. Plus, he hired her ex-boyfriend, her first “real” boyfriend, to play in the band, and now she’s stuck between them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nothing Else Matters</span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the final book in the Georgie and Xan series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Haven’t read the first one yet?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He said, “Sorry about making you the fetch-andcarry girl.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “It’s fine. I don’t mind.” Georgie pulled the drape that cordoned off the door to the private room and scooted onto the foot of his bed, careful not to jostle the mattress too much under her legs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Are you going to wear your jeans again?” he asked. His weak smile worried her. “It’s considered déclassé to not change into yet another designer outfit for the reception. Perhaps your black jeans?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “I have a dress that Flicka brought for me,” she told him. “It’s red.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Too bad you don’t have that black dress with the silver chains from their civil wedding. It looked smashing on you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “And on your floor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Indeed.” His smile grew a little warmer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Are you okay?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He didn’t even glance at his hand, but his quiet voice was just slightly breathy. “I don’t think so.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He shook his head, a slight movement from side to side, but his expression was still so calm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Are you sure that you want to go tonight? We don’t have to. We can just stay in Geneva tonight, if that would be better. I’d stay with you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “It wouldn’t matter. The surgery is scheduled for tomorrow because the best surgeon in Europe is flying in to do it. Going now wouldn’t change anything. A distraction might be welcome.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Well, then. Let’s get this party started,” Georgie said, bracing her arms on her knees to stand and get their clothes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He lifted his wrapped arm from his lap where it had been hidden behind his legs and the long part of the hospital gown. Elastic bandages wrapped his forearm and hand down to his fingertips where the ends of a foam and silver splint stuck out of the beige cloth. “I don’t know how I’ll get clothes on over this.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> A slow smile grew on his face while she spoke. He said, “That’s amazing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> She patted his long, bare foot because it was closest to her. “It’s okay, man. I’ll just grab those garment bags.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> When she brought the bags back to Alexandre, he was already standing up and was shrugging off the cotton hospital gown, facing her. The cotton slid down his chest and dropped to the floor. She hoisted the bags up and hung them on the curtain track that ran near the ceiling. “Let’s get you dressed first,” she said. “You’ll wrinkle less.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “You can wait outside,” he said. “I’ll just be a minute. Then we can sew me in.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Oh, come on. I’ll just help you button up the shirt.” He unbuttoned his jeans with his one hand and shoved them down his long legs. “I don’t need any help.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “One last night, okay?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “I beg your pardon?” he asked as he sat on the bed and yanked the denim off his foot with one hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “One last night. I’m going to Atlanta tomorrow. Let me help you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “I keep hearing that, but you never leave.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Now you’re daring me,” she said. He pulled the other leg of his jeans off his foot and threw them behind himself on the pillow. He wore blue boxer-briefs that hugged his slim hips and rode below the ripples of his abs. Red-gray bruises stained his skin on his ribs and thighs, mostly on his left side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He said, “I am merely commenting on a trend. One that I like.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Well, I’m just saying that you should let me help you because this really is our last night,” she said, trying not to look at the bleeding under his skin. “Don’t push me away, even for a minute, even to just get dressed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Then don’t go to Atlanta,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> She ignored him because she ignored the people on the sidewalks of Southwestern State who hollered that little green men were following her, too. Indulging in fantasies was not something that the Ice Princess did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> She said, “Even now. Even just for a few minutes. Just pretend that I’m helping you so I can stay.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He blinked, those lush eyelashes blinking over his dark eyes. “All right.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “So we need to get ready for the reception,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Do you want to shower?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He gestured to the splint and bandages on his left hand and shrugged his strong shoulder, pulling up the ripples of muscle along his torso.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Yeah, his splint and bandages shouldn’t get soggy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Xan Valentine, the rock star that Rolling Stone called “sex incarnate,”</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; letter-spacing: 0px;"> stands in the spotlight every night and sings love songs to the women in the audience. They swoon. They scream. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>They believe him. </i><b><i>They don’t know him like Georgie does.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They’ve never seen him nearly beat two men to death until someone pulled him off. They’ve never seen the coldness in his dark eyes when he sat across a table, negotiating a contract that broke their hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He’s never stolen into their bedroom at night, slid into their bed, and made love to them until dawn, and he’s never treated them like it never happened while the bitemarks on their backs and thighs were still sore.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie is officially in his band now, playing the keyboards, and every concert drives the music deeper into her soul. If Georgie leaves the protection of the band and Xan Valentine, the Russian mafia will kidnap and kill her. If she stays and plays in his band for just a few more weeks, Xan will pay for her college and law school.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Xan Valentine, the rock star—and Georgie could tell that he was Xan by the arrogant tilt of his head and the jitter of his fingers drumming on the conference room table—pushed a thick contract across the table toward her. His long hair was tied back in a ponytail, and he wore a trim, blue business suit without a tie, his collar unbuttoned at his throat. Silver and steel chains at his throat sparkled white glints in the overhead fluorescent lights, and that green crystal earring dangled from his ear lobe.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He looked straight at her while he slid the contract over the wood like he was accusing her of something, his dark eyes level and still as he stared. White bandages wrapped his knuckles, but at least the bleeding must have stopped overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jonas, the band manager for Killer Valentine, sat on Xan’s left. He sat straight in his chair, his black suit pressed and smooth.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie was alone on her side of the table. The chill air in the hotel leaked down the back of her tee shirt and up her short sleeves, raising goosebumps on her skin.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She picked up the stack of paper and riffled through it. “This is a lot of contract for just two months.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“There’s a lot to do in a rock band,” Xan said.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He didn’t sneer, and he didn’t snarl. If anything, his businesslike tone sounded resigned.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I’m not signing this until I read the whole thing. I want an attorney’s opinion on it, too. Do you have an electronic copy?”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jonas slid a thumb drive across the table to her. “Here’s a PDF.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Thanks.” She crammed the stick into the back pocket of her jeans.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Xan said, “We need you to sign it before you play with the band again, and the next performance is two days from now.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I’m not signing something I haven’t read or don’t understand.” The sheaf of pages weighed in her hands.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“We have a show coming up. If you haven’t signed it by tomorrow morning, we have to cancel the show. If we cancel it—”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I know. I know. The fans will post vomiting gifs and Killer Valentine will be ruined forever.” She flipped to the front page, which was mostly defining terms, like that Georgie was The Band Member, Killer Valentine, Inc. was The Band, and Mr. Alexandre Grimaldi de Valentinois was The Employer.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So Xan was the one who was paying her, not the band.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie flipped more pages.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Xan folded his hands and looked down at his fingers. He didn’t look like he was trying to hide something, just waiting. Steel and black metal rings wound around his fingers, and thick chains dangled on his wrists near the cuffs of his suit jacket and clicked against the table when he moved his arms.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie read further into the contract, slowing down when she got to </span><span style="font-family: Times; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>The Band Member’s Duties.</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The concerts were there, of course, including playing the music while sober and not under the influence of controlled substances.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">That must be a new clause.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Her chest hurt for a minute. Rade had been a brilliant keyboard player, and hearing him play classical music on the piano would have been amazing. She had meant to ask him to play for her.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She sucked in a steadying breath and read on.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The terms of the contract ran until July thirty-first, a little over two months, the entire European leg of the tour.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After that, Georgie was free to move to Atlanta and Emory University, where she would resume her plan to go to law school and pay off her many, many debts, both financial and moral. There was an option to renew the contract for one-year terms after that, which made Georgie snort.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No way.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No </span><span style="font-family: Times; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>fucking</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> way was she sticking around after July thirty-first.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The next part was weird.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie looked up at Xan and Jonas. Xan was still meditating on his clasped hands, but Jonas was scrolling through something on his phone. She asked, “What do you mean by ‘public relations engagements?’”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Anything the band needs,” Xan said. His hands were still clasped on the table. “Radio interviews in the mornings by phone, studio interviews, clubs, other appearances.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I can’t do public appearances,” she said. “They’re still after me.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Butorins, a Russian mafia </span><span style="font-family: Times; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>bratva,</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> had tried to kidnap Georgie several times because she owed them eight million dollars. Her father had swindled them out of that money, and they felt that Georgie should pay up. Before they had found her, she had planned to first pay off the charities that her father had stolen from, but she liked breathing, too. If she were dead, she would never pay off all the charities.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Xan shook his head. “The public eye is the safest place for you, currently. Every attempt to kidnap you has been in private or at least away from cameras or crowds. Also, later in the contract, you’ll see that it’s not your responsibility to provide security. It’s ours. You’ll have Adrien, who is the most diligent and highly trained security person we have. You’ll have others, too. You’ll be safe.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I need to hide. I need locked doors between me and the Russian mob.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He shook his head again, but his careful, methodical gesture didn’t exude the wild energy of Xan anymore. “You need to remain in the limelight. Witnesses are your best security.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even his English accent had switched to the high-society British of Alex de Valentinois, leaving behind the guttural, working-class accent of Xan Valentine. His switches dizzied Georgie, but Jonas didn’t even look like he had noticed.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jonas and the rest of the band either didn’t hear the difference in Alex’s accents or else they didn’t know what they signified, not that Georgie could have exactly defined what they meant, either.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But she knew that he was Alex now.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She stole another peek at Jonas, who was still peering at his phone.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not that she could call him Alex. Everybody around here only knew him as Xan and only called him Xan.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I can’t do appearances,” she repeated.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Alex’s dark eyebrows twitched. “The band needs all its members to do appearances.”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I’m not really a band member.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Alex leaned across the table and tapped the contract. “For two months, you are a full band member. You will continue to receive royalties on anything you record or write for the duration of the copyright.”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“It’s a ridiculously generous contract,” Jonas muttered. “Contract musicians and writing consultants are generally paid a flat rate under work-for-hire laws. I’ve never seen anything like this for a short-term gig.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie raised her eyebrows at Alex. “Really?”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He shrugged. “We negotiated the terms last night. This is merely the formal contract.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“If this isn’t customary—” she started.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“We’re in a crisis. It isn’t </span><span style="font-family: Times; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>customary</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> to simultaneously lose two musicians out of five.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Six,” Jonas muttered.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Rhiannon is a contractor under work-for-hire guidelines,” Xan told him.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Hell, if Georgie is a band member, Rhiannon should be, too.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Just whom are you advocating for, Jonas?” His mild tone belied what he was actually saying.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jonas set his mouth in a hard line and went back to texting on his phone.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Alex turned back to Georgie, his face still as impassive as marble. “The songs that we’ve already written together are copyrighted in both our names. Future music will be the same.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie went back to reading. The Non-Disclosure Agreement was outlined in excruciating detail, including but not limited to any communication in any form—electronic, print, or methods not therein described or currently in existence, and the ban was worldwide. She couldn’t even discuss him or the band by using smoke signals in Siberia or telepathic waves on Alpha Centauri. “Guess I won’t be writing my memoirs.”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“No,” Alex said. “No memoirs.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie saw the flaw in the logic. “How am I going to do interviews if I can’t discuss anything about the band?”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jonas said, “You’ll have a list of approved topics and talking points.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“That sounds spontaneous,” she grumbled.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jonas looked confused. “It’s how all interviews are run. You can’t have musicians puking out anything they want to talk about. They’d just incriminate themselves for all sorts of things, like smuggling drugs over international borders up their asses.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie frowned at him.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Okay, you wouldn’t do that,” Jonas said. “But can you imagine Grayson with a live mic and no piece of paper in front of him?”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Grayson is in rehab,” Alex said, twisting one of the silver death’s head rings on his fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Yeah, but still,” Jonas sighed.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While Georgie had been standing in line for a latte that morning in the hotel lobby, she had seen Alex escort Grayson, their bass player, to a limo that morning, shake his hand, and stand on the sidewalk as it drove away. He had strode back into the hotel without looking back, his jaw set.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She asked, “What’s this ‘other and sundry duties?’”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Anything band-related that I think is necessary,” Alex said, still fidgeting with his rings.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She didn’t want to make a suggestive comment, not after last night, not when she wanted to break down and sob or punch him in the face, she wasn’t sure which. “Okay.”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Alex’s eyes flicked up at her. </span><span style="font-family: Times; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>“Band-</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">related,” he stressed. “Keep reading.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Georgie skimmed through the document, slowing only when she came to a section titled, “No Fraternization Among Band Members.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The language was brutal. The consequences were severe, from fines to summary dismissal with no recourse. “This clause is pretty rough.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“You wanted it,” Alex said, still staring at his hands.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“So what happens to you?”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I beg your pardon?”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“If you make a pass at me, I get fired and lose my college financing. What about you?”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He looked up from his hands, and for the first time, lines of anger creased around his eyes. The anger spread through his face and body, tightening his arms and clenching his hands into fists. In a guttural British accent, Xan said, “I’ll break up the band. I’ll cancel all future concerts and pay off the venues. I’ll walk away.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Is that in the contract?” she asked.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; margin-left: 0.7px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.6px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I’ll have it added.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jonas stared at Xan, his lip curling up. “You can’t break up the band over something like this.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Watch me.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“You can’t throw away everything you’ve worked for,” Jonas insisted.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Xan didn’t look away from Georgie. His dark eyes narrowed, and he bit down on the words. “She’s right. It’s not fair for her to take all the risk. If I violate that clause, I’ll burn Killer Valentine to the ground.”</span></div>
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Alex said, so quietly, “Play something for me.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Her hands stretched over the keys, and she tried to push them down to play even a major chord, but as soon as a key neared the break point, just when the hammer inside the piano was poised to strike the string, something in her mind shouted <i>Don’t!</i> and she couldn’t press it.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Alex asked gently, “Does Flicka know you’re worse?”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“I don’t see how she would. We’ve been out of touch for a few years.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“But she knows that you’ve got—” he paused, obviously considering whether to say the terrible words, “a problem with this.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“She must have forgotten about it,” rather than that Flicka had decided to punish Georgie in a spectacularly cruel way.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Maybe Georgie deserved to try to face her fears, melt into an incoherent puddle on the floor, and have everyone from her childhood and current best friends laugh at her failure.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">It would serve her right.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">But she would never be able to walk as far as the piano in front of all those people, so Flicka couldn’t have her poetic justice.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“Anyway,” she said, “I can’t do it.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“I can help you,” Alex said.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“And how could you do that? Hypnotize me? Doesn’t work. Psychoanalysis? There’s nothing there.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“Of course not, but I don’t want you to play for<i> them.”</i> He leaned across the piano again, and his hair slid from behind his shoulder and hung, reflected in the black gloss of the piano’s lacquer. “I want you to play for <i>me.”</i></span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Georgie stared down at her spidery hands hanging over the black and white piano keys. “I can’t.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">He walked around the piano and stood beside her, his slim hip right beside her cheek. A faint, masculine scent wafted from his clothes, a cologne, something soothing like green herbs. She was acutely aware that she could lean about six inches over and unzip his fly with her teeth.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Alex said, in a low, soft voice, “Play the middle C.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">She laid her thumb on the white key right in front of her waist and held it there, but she didn’t push down.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Alex stroked her arm from her elbow to her wrist with the back of his hand, soothing her. “Play it.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">She told her finger to push down, and she let the weight of her arm fall on her finger that was curled above the keys.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Her finger collapsed and wouldn’t press the key.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Alex shook his head, and his long hair swished over his shoulders. He turned his hand over so that his palm was on her wrist, and then he slid his hand over hers, covering her fingers on the keys with his own. Calluses on pads of his fingers were hard on the tops of her fingers.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">He stepped behind her, still not moving his fingers over hers. Warmth from his body drifted out of his suit jacket that opened around them, spreading over her bare back, and his cologne filled her nose like she was walking in the fields around Tanglewood.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">He leaned over her, stretching his arms on both sides of her, caging her.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">His whisper brushed the skin on her neck. “I’m not forcing you to do something you don’t want to. I’m letting you have what you want most, what you crave, but you dare not admit, even to yourself.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“I’m afraid,” Georgie admitted, her voice breathy from fear at pressing that note and from his body so close to hers.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“Everyone is, in the beginning,” he said. “It can be terrifying to have an experience so desired, so primal, that you lose yourself. You have to trust me to take you through the place that terrifies you, to keep you safe, and to hold you until you emerge on the other side.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Georgie couldn’t seem to catch her breath or move away from him. “We’re still talking about the piano here?”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Alex chuckled.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“Just the piano,” she said, but she leaned back, almost imperceptibly, maybe an inch, so that his mouth was so near her skin that his breath was a hot circle on her bare shoulder, and the scent of champagne in his mouth rolled down her skin.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“Let me do it for you, first,” he whispered.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 13.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Georgie closed her eyes, and the weight of his finger forced hers down.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">A single note, a C, rang out of the piano and jarred against her skin.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Wild Thing</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> is the second book in the Georgie and Xan series.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Riding in the back of the limousine on the way to the sound check, Georgie watched Alex, or Xan, or whoever he was.</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He reached over and held her hand. The hard calluses on his fingertips scraped her fingers. The sympathetic interest in Alex</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">’s dark eyes made her feel like the chaos of the world out there had quieted.</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> As they neared the venue, gliding through the light traffic hours before the arena began to fill, Alex</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">’s body tensed.</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> As the venue came into view—a huge arts complex like a pile of white boxes surrounded by lonely fields of empty parking lots—Alex tugged her hand toward him, and he leaned over for a kiss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> At first, his lips caressed hers, drawing out her response, an intimate and tantalizing kiss that promised more. His lips parted, and Georgie opened hers. His strong arms clamped around her waist and the back of her neck, grabbing a fistful of her long hair. He stroked her tongue with his until she felt a moan shudder in her throat, and he chuckled against her skin as he drew away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He lifted his head, looking down at her. A smile curved one side of his mouth. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“We’re almost to the show, anyway.”</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> She couldn</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">’t quite catch her breath. “Yeah.”</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> If she hadn</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">’t seen the change for herself, several times, she might not have believed it. It seemed more like black magic than psychology.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">from <i>USA Today</i>-Bestselling Author Blair Babylon!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Every night, she stands offstage, watching rock star Xan Valentine and his band, Killer Valentine, set fire to the crowd with music until they would burn down the city for him. His music wraps her until her fingers dance, desperately wanting the piano, but her terrified legs could never walk onto a stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Most nights, when Xan Valentine strides off the stage, his dark eyes shift, blurring, and he becomes Alexandre de Valentinois again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Some of the other band members, Rade and Grayson, are caught in a death spiral of booze, drugs, and groupies. The drummer, Tryp, is too infatuated with his new wife to do more than show up to play.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Xan is the only one who can compel them onto the stage. He’s holding Killer Valentine together with the force of his will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Something has to break.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Wild Thing<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">(Billionaires in Disguise: Georgie / Rock Stars in Disguise: Xan)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">PUBLICATION DATE: May 11<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4dU-QP4mKeAnPzJPB0eDOKPSSpEpoWXOU51AAMlaQrKJmDj55tV8TXuVILLw07wovAEnYZ9qmOUL-yGB4aF0FAQNXuNqVPPxSWZPsx5X_zFPlgY70EZin3KSNuaMb03six1POQSgh7BzR/s1600/Every+Breath+Blair+Babylon+500px.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4dU-QP4mKeAnPzJPB0eDOKPSSpEpoWXOU51AAMlaQrKJmDj55tV8TXuVILLw07wovAEnYZ9qmOUL-yGB4aF0FAQNXuNqVPPxSWZPsx5X_zFPlgY70EZin3KSNuaMb03six1POQSgh7BzR/s200/Every+Breath+Blair+Babylon+500px.JPG" width="125" /></a><b><i><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Wild Thing</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> is the second book in the Georgie and Xan series.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Georgie rolled on the bed in the dark, touching Xan’s chest. “It’s freaky, you know, that you can write these beautiful love songs and not believe in love at all.”</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“All the women out there.” He shifted on the bed, crossing his long legs at his ankles.</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>By: Blair Babylon<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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At a high society wedding, Georgie Johnson is introduced to Alexandre de Valentinois, a hereditary duke of nothing who flies around the world on his private planes and describes himself as “one of those despicable, idle rich men.” But Alexandre is Xan Valentine, rock star front man for Killer Valentine. He’s famous, but his paparazzi-dogged lifestyle might get Georgie killed.<br />
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<b><i>Mismatched<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Former college roommates Erin and Ridlee leave Boston for Ireland to track down an inheritance, and end up at a matchmaking festival in Lisdoonvarna. Ridlee's a newly minted attorney, and Erin's part owner of the Pot O' Gold Pub, hoping to buy out her new, mysterious partner, some old Irish guy she'd never heard of before the reading of her late grandmother's will. It seemed like it would be an easy thing to do: show up, find the guy, and make him an offer… But the magic that is Ireland and the people who speak the lilting Irish brogue are as unpredictable as the weather, and things get a little more complicated than the girls anticipated when the town's legendary matchmaker pulls out his leather-bound book and proposes two matches…<br />
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Navy SEAL Trick Novak knows he needs to find a better cure for his insomnia, but a warm body and a pretty smile worked just fine until he met Gaby Ellis—his latest conquest’s roommate. Now he’s not sleeping, and he’s definitely not getting laid, but that just means he’s got more time to plot ways to win over the beautiful and stubborn kindergarten teacher.<br />
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Shield (Allie's War Book Two) by <a href="http://jcandrijeski.com/">JC Andrijeski</a><br />
Grappling with her new identity as "Bridge," a being meant to herald the end for all of humanity, isn't even Allie's biggest problem. A whole new set of rules around seer culture and her relationship with infamous Seer infiltrator, Revik, keep getting her in trouble. Then the boy appears––sociopathic and telekinetic, he thinks Allie belongs to him.<br />
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A SEAL's Song by <a href="http://jenniferloweryauthor.com/">Jennifer Lowery</a><br />
Navy SEAL Jack Taggart’s plans to catch some much-needed downtime between deployments are demolished when he risks everything to rescue beautiful wedding singer, Darci O’Shea, from a band of thieves. Will the battle between their inner demons be the hardest one to fight, or will they find rescue in each other’s arms?<br />
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One Gold Knot (Dominant Cord, Book 2) by <a href="http://www.sadiehaller.com/">Sadie Haller</a><br />
She didn't do relationships. She didn't even do all night. After years of avoiding her teenage crush, Hildy Klein is shocked to come face to face with Wilson Kennedy. Her uncle's wake isn't the place to unravel all the ways that Wilson could leave her emotionally vulnerable and exposed, yet his gentle persistence is impossib le to ignore. But Wilson is no longer that boy in her fantasies, and now Hildy must decide if she will give up control and commit to the protective, kinky Dom he's become.<br />
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Let it Snow: Six Spicy Winter Romances by <a href="http://www.sadiehaller.com/">Suzan Butler, Emily Ryan-Davis, Cari Quinn, Vivienne Westlake, Sadie Haller, Holley Trent</a><br />
Six steamy holiday romances, including offerings by New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, will keep you warm through winter's coldest nights, so Let it Snow. <br />
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Rise of the Phoenix (Return to Avalore) by <a href="http://www.elianneadams.com/">Elianne Adams</a><br />
Shattered by bitter rejection, Brienne Roberts flees Avalore and finds a home with the Erritrols, sworn enemy of their people, and now, she is determined to break a centuries old curse that turned her new family into beasts. Evan Mayfield, her named mate, will stop at nothing to eliminate all threats to his people, even if it means bringing Brienne back to Avalore to face justice with her people, and himself. <br />
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Psychic Storm: Ten Dangerously Sexy Tales of Psychic Witches, Vampires, Mediums, Empaths and Seers by <a href="http://jcandrijeski.com/">C.J. Ellisson, Deanna Chase, Dale Mayer, Heather Topham Wood, Hazel Hunter, Jesi Lea Ryan, JC Andrijeski, April Aasheim, Morgan Hannah MacDonald, Jordan Castillo Price</a><br />
Ten books. Ten internationally bestselling authors, including New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. Ten different tales of sexy psychics, empaths and seers who solve crimes, fall in love, make magic and fight to save the world. Over 2,000 pages of extrasensory reading await, with three brand new, original novels and over 1,400 5-Star Reviews for the rest!<br />
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Taken & Pursuit by <a href="http://www.aetherealbonds.com/">V.M. Black </a><br />
Curvy Harper Bailey’s ordinary life was turned upside down by a chance encounter with the handsome werewolf Levi Harris. On the run from the vampire mafia, he pulls her into his high-stakes world—and straight into the crosshairs. Now she’s got no car, no job, and not even any dry clothes.<br />
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No Gentleman by <a href="http://www.aetherealbonds.com/">V.M. Black </a><br />
From deliciously sizzling contemporary bad boys, to pulse-tingling paranormal hotties, you’re sure to fall in love and in lust with any or all of these alphas. Over twenty fabulous authors bring their A-game to tempt your every desire.<br />
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Panther’s Quest by <a href="http://www.aetherealbonds.com/">V.M. Black </a><br />
An ex-SEAL panther shifter, Chay Bane has spent the last six years building a secret refuge for shifters in trouble. But when one of his bests friends needs help, everything he's ever worked for is on the line. <br />
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Lucky Thirteen Books 1-3 by <a href="http://suzanbutler.com/">S.M. Butler</a><br />
Get the first three books in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, Lucky Thirteen, in one volume! Three Navy SEALs find and rediscover love with women who match them in every aspect of their lives.<br />
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Sizzling Seven by <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=532709614691277877">Minx Malone, Brenna Aubrey, Cari Quinn, Suzan Butler, Molly McLain, Violet Vaughn, Marie Hall</a><br />
Seven sizzling reads from hot romance authors for a limited time in this value-packed bundle. Steamy stories of love from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling authors, featuring a sexy CEO Millionaire, a passionate Navy SEAL, a ruthless fighter, a hunky ski instructor, an injured Army sergeant, a sensual artist and a self-sacrificing Marine. <br />
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Rocked (Lost in Oblivion #1) by <a href="http://lostinoblivion.com/">Taryn Elliott & Cari Quinn</a><br />
Harper Pruitt sees that Deacon McCoy’s dream band with his best friends may be turning into a nightmare. Deacon's so much more than just a peacemaker and the man behind the bass for Oblivion. But she has her own dreams to chase...even if she's starting to think what she's building with him might be the biggest one of all.<br />
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Reckless Recon (A Barren Planet Romance by <a href="http://rinellegrey.com/">Rinelle Grey</a><br />
Stir-crazy after three weeks in space, Kerit, professional surfer turned interstellar colonist, jumps at the chance to get off the ship and onto the new planet’s surface—even if it is a little inhospitable. What he doesn’t expect is to meet Folly—the most prickly, irritating, and fascinating girl he’s ever known. But something sinister lurks in the ruined city, and neither of them realise how much they are going to have to rely on each other if they want to make it out alive.<br />
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Accepting Fate by <a href="http://www.deannachase.com/">Deanna Chase</a><br />
Derek Alexander does his job for one reason and one reason only—to make up for that terrible night nine years ago. His demons haunt him, but so do dreams of Jax, the girl he knows he’s fated to be with. But in a world of magical soul mates, sometimes even love and forgiveness isn’t enough. <br />
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The Tiger's Passion: Picking Up The Pieces by <a href="http://jessicaryanbooks.com/">Jessica Ryan</a><br />
Morgan O'Connor's love life has been nothing but abuse and tragedy. That is until she moves in across the street from a sexy tiger shifter named Levi. But is this the kind of love she's ready for? <br />
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Hot Shot (A Hostile Operations Team Novel) by <a href="http://www.lynnrayeharris.com/">Lynn Raye Harris</a><br />
Hostile Operations Team sniper Jack “Hawk” Hunter is cool, methodical, and utterly lethal. Nothing rattles Jack’s calm. But that was before he learned he fathered a child three years ago—a child who has just been kidnapped.<br />
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Pursued by a Werewolf [Mystic Isle, Book 4] by <a href="http://www.selena-blake.com/">Selena Blake</a><br />
Hunter Ciolek has a new plan and only a few short weeks to make Avery Cooper see things his way because living without her is not an option and this werewolf always gets what he wants.<br />
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Shades of Control - The 3rd Billionaire Romance Boxset by <a href="http://oliviarigal.com/book/soc/">Michelle Fix, Adrianna Hunter, Jordan Bell, Olivia Rigal, Erika Matsen, Amy Valenti, Aubrey Dark, Terry Towers, Cate Troyer, Tara Crescent, Gisèle Renarde, Ava Lore,</a><br />
These irresistible men exercise control in every aspect of their lives. They demand your submission. They demand your devotion. They demand your love. In return, they'll give you everything your heart desires and take you to impossible heights of pleasure.<br />
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Love and War - Part 1 (The Underworld Coven) by <a href="http://www.hauntingfiction.com/">Kim Faulks</a><br />
In the land they call the Underworld, witches have fought the Corrupt for hundreds of years, but recently, something has tipped the balance of power in favor of evil. Only one coven remains to protect the human race, the Crux Coven, led by a grieving warrior-witch named Creed. When a human woman breaks his wards and enters his sanctuary, Creed’s prepared for battle, but not for the attraction he feels toward Helaine. <br />
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Incidental Contact (Those Devilish De Marco Men) by <a href="http://edenconnorwrites.blogspot.com/">Eden Connor</a><br />
Small town Romeo wants the good girl, but he's having performance issues<br />
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Rain on Me by <a href="http://edenconnorwrites.blogspot.com/">Eden Connor</a><br />
If every heart's a package someone else has tied in knots, how did bondage unravel mine?<br />
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Fall Out (SEALs Undone #1) by <a href="http://www.zoeyork.com/">Zoe York</a><br />
Drew Castle is a Navy SEAL with a bad case of indifference. Until Annie Martin shows up on his doorstep, scared out of her mind, and all of a sudden, keeping her safe becomes the most important mission of his life. And this time, he's on his own.<br />
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Hate F*@k: part one by <a href="http://www.ainsleybooth.com/">Ainsley Booth</a><br />
Cole: I push her buttons. I want to push them in the good way. Dirty, up-against-the-wall, my-hand-in-her-pants kind of way. But that’s not possible, because I’m dark and she’s light, and we both know it. So I push her buttons in the bad way, making her hate me.<br />
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London: Allie's War Early Years by <a href="http://www.jcandrijeski.com/">JC Andrijeski</a><br />
~ A Revik and Allie prequel novel in the Allie's War Series ~<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532709614691277877.post-15692829688859945912015-02-16T18:42:00.001-08:002015-04-02T13:37:17.163-07:00How the Billionaires in Disguise and Rock Stars in Disguise Series Fit Together<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This isn't a reading order. Really, other than within the grouped mini-series, there is no "order." This is just how they fit together.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2