Welcome to your All Access VIP Pass for the There's Wild, Then There's You Promotional Event! As you know, Jet is a singer and well...we just had to bring music into this event. So, what we have for you is an excerpt that ties into the music playlist that M. Leighton used while writing the book!
Here's a tip: find the song on the playlist and listen to it while reading the excerpt. Have fun!
Title: There's Wild, Then There's You (The Wild Ones #3)
Author: M. Leighton
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Print Length: 304 pages
Publisher: Berkley (June 3, 2014)
Publisher: Berkley (June 3, 2014)
ISBN: 0425267822 (ISBN13: 9780425267820)
ASIN: B00H87RODE
ASIN: B00H87RODE
He’s someone she can’t trust…
She’s someone he thinks he knows…
Violet Wilson is a wallflower. Shy, serious, and accident-prone, she’s got a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The night she’s forced to pose with her friend might just be the worst time of all—that’s when she meets Jet Blevins. She knows better than to get involved with someone like him, but he touches her in ways she never expected, neverwanted before.
On the outside, Jet is a typical rocker, an arrogant lead guitarist who unapologetically lives a wild lifestyle. But on the inside, he’s battling demons and using the stage to escape the troubles of his past and the addictions of his present. Until the night he sees Violet standing at the back of the room. She brings his life into focus. She knows his secrets. She’s the girl he can’t forget, and the one thing he craves more than his addiction.
But can they ever hope to have a future when their very foundation is nothing but lies?
Excerpt
It’s when
the lights dim and Jet exchanges his bass for an acoustic guitar and sits on
the edge of the stage that I realize I’m not as strong as I thought I was.
After he
gets situated, a spotlight clicks on and focuses its radiance on Jet. With his
head bent as he adjusts the strings on his guitar, his hair looks like an ink
spill in the light. Everyone around me is quiet as we wait, mesmerized by
nothing more than his presence.
He closes
his eyes with the first strum of his guitar. The simple sound vibrates through
me, pulling me into its rhythm, into the song. Into Jet.
He tips his
head back, turning his face into the light as he picks out notes. When he opens
his eyes, staring out into the brightness, they glisten like pale blue
diamonds. He turns them onto the crowd for a few seconds, until he begins to
sing.
That’s when
they find me. And I forget that we’re in a room full of people and that I
shouldn’t be feeling this way about him. I’m simply lost. Lost to the moment,
lost to the feeling. Lost to Jet.
Smoothly, he
begins to sing the words to “Through Glass.” The lyrics float around me. His
voice slides through me. But it’s Jet . . . It’s whatever makes Jet Jet that
weaves a spell around me, a spell like silk ribbon that holds me right here.
Right now. Right where he wants me, and right where I want to be.
His eyes
never leave mine as he sings. Not once. He doesn’t glance down or around,
doesn’t look at anyone else. Not for a single second. And no one steps between
us. It’s like the ocean of people parted in reverence of what’s happening, and
that no one would dare to interrupt it.
When he
strums the last chord, no one moves. Not Jet, not me, not the people in the
crowd. We all stay perfectly still, watching him watch me.
Jet doesn’t
smile or wink or make this moment cute or contrived. He just stares at me like
he’s seeing me for the first time. Or maybe that he’s feeling me for the
first time. Like I’m feeling him.
Series reading order: The Wild Ones
Wild Child (novella)
Some Like It Wild
There’s Wild, Then There’s You
About Michelle:
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, M. Leighton, is a native of Ohio. She relocated to the warmer climates of the South, where she can be near the water all summer and miss the snow all winter. Possessed of an overactive imagination from early in her childhood, Michelle finally found an acceptable outlet for her fantastical visions: literary fiction. Having written over a dozen novels, these days Michelle enjoys letting her mind wander to more romantic settings with sexy Southern guys, much like the one she married and the ones you'll find in her latest books. When her thoughts aren't roaming in that direction, she'll be riding wild horses, skiing the slopes of Aspen or scuba diving with a hot rock star, all without leaving the cozy comfort of her office.
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