Title: Lead (Stage Dive, #3)
Author: Kylie Scott
Publication Date: July 29, 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Synopsis
Stay up all night with the sexy rockers in Stage Dive, the epic rock star romance 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.Excerpt
“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!”The Stage Dive series by Kylie Scott
Lick (Stage Dive #1)
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Play (Stage Dive #2)
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Lead (Stage Dive, #3)
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Coming January 6th, 2015
Deep (Stage Dive #4)
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About Kylie Scott
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.Website | Twitter | Facebook | Amazon Author Page | Goodreads
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First I want to say the only reason I am giving this book a 4.5 and not a 5 that it truly deserves is for one reason only. There was NO Jimmy POV. And I DESPERATELY wanted that. Especially the further in we get into the book. I was highly disappointed with that. Jimmy is an enigma and I wanted to learn all his deep and dark secrets. We do, but not from his POV. I wanted to feel what he felt through many situations .because Lena pushes him past his comfort level and he completely opens up to her. So I was slightly frustrated and disappointed in that. But other than that, the story alone is worth a 5. It was simply amazing and blew every expectation I had out of the water. Mal will always be my favorite, but Jimmy has wormed his way into my heart. I have never been too fond of Jimmy. And I was so excited when learned of Jimmy getting his own story. He is a hard-ass and I wanted to know why he is the way he is. What makes him this way. And we learned everything about him and I fell in love with him by the end of Lead. Jimmy has went through countless assistants and Lena becomes his new live-in assistant. And she is so good for him in every way. She does not back down to him. It was highly amusing the entire book. These two fight over EVERYTHING. I could not stop laughing. Lena is always there for Jimmy and puts him and his needs first and his sobriety is the most important thing to her. She starts to develop feelings for Jimmy and tries to quit. Jimmy isn't having ANY of that so he tries to help her get over him. He is after all, no good for anyone as he says over and over. And in the end that fails so they decide to get it out of their system and become friends with benefits. But then they both cannot help falling for each other. But Jimmy can't stop messing up. Lena wants more than what Jimmy can offer and decides to leave. Can these two make a relationship work? can Jimmy truly let love into his heart? you will have to read to find out!
Kylie does not disappoint yet again. Lead was breath taking and surpassed every expectation I could of had for this book and Jimmy. I laughed, I cried, I yelled. I couldn't put it down once I picked it up and what was even better? we get the rest of the Stage Dive members David, Ben, Mal and the lovely ladies of course and they delivered, oh boy did they deliver. We get to see sides to Jimmy we have never seen and look into his heart and soul. And the results are earth-shattering.
Thank you for this series, Kylie. One of the best series and rock stars I have ever read. One of the most enjoyable series known to existence.
"I'm all about you, Lena. You're my best friend. You're my girl."
"I think I'm going to start charging you extra for lies. Someone needs to pay for the stain on my soul."
"If she means something to you, you gotta do the woo son. You can't just be trying to stick it in."