New Adult. MA 17+ Content.
After Kylie’s dad dies in a freak accident, he leaves her with nothing other than her crazy step-mother, Darla, and the ability to play guitar. When Darla kicks Kylie out and she loses her job all in the same day, she hops a bus to Nashville determined to make her late father’s dreams come true. Waitressing and saving her pennies to record a demo, her big break comes when she’s asked to join a tour going down the tubes with once platinum album-selling country music superstar Trace Corbin. But touring with Trace is hardly a dream come true since he’s pretty much drinking his career down the drain. If Kylie can’t pull Trace out of his rut, he’ll pull her and her dreams down with him.4 Star Review
Kylie Lou Ryans
has decided to leave her hometown of Pride, Oklahoma and follow her dreams. Her
stepmother Darla, threw her out of her own house after she accused Kylie of having
sex with Darla’s latest boyfriend. Her dad died from an accident at work and
Kylie has no reason to stay. With her savings (the money she was going to use
to buy her dad a headstone) in hand she settles in a hotel in Nashville. A
couple of weeks in she still has no job and no prospects. Due to being in the right
place at the right time she ends up with a job at the Rum Room. She becomes
friends with another waitress Tonya and gets up the nerve to sing for an open
mic Rum Room Amateur Night. She does a cover of one of Trace Corbin’s songs and
is a hit. The man himself (once one of the hottest country singers around) was
supposed to play there several weeks ago, but in typical Trace fashion he was a
no show. So what kind of luck does Kylie have that the next singer up is Trace
himself? He asks her to sing with him and they banter back and forth.
This is the
beginning of some lucky breaks that come her way. She is offered a spot on his
comeback tour (his drinking and whoring have resulted in poor ticket sales and
this is his shot at redemption). After a rough start, Kylie pulls no punches
with Trace, if he wants to continue to screw up his life, go ahead, but he won’t
be dragging Kylie’s career down with him.
“But you,
with your flashy bus and your tight ass jeans, you show up whenever you feel
like it. Or not. Like there aren’t a million people out there who would step
over their own mothers to be in your shoes.”
The two find
that sparks are flying everywhere between them. Trace doesn’t do relationships,
and Kylie is no one night stand. Their aggression covers up their desire for
each other.
“You gotta
stop calling me that. It’s Trace. Or my friends call me Tray.” “Trace it is
then,” she clipped as she headed back to retrieve her guitar.
In spite of
their different philosophies, these two finally give in to their feelings.
When Kylie’s past catches up with her-who will Trace believe?
I enjoyed
this book. Quinn has written a story that flows along nicely, with some delicious
angst and heartache. It also has some heartwarmingly sweet moments and some of
the best book lyrics I’ve read. Their journey continues with a sequel, and I am
looking forward to it.
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