Title: The Rebellion
Series: Hard to Resist #5
Author: S.L. Scott
Author: S.L. Scott
Genre: STANDALONE Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Blurb
I met my muse at fifteen. I'd just gotten busted
for smoking behind the school gymnasium. She inspired me with her laugh and
nonjudgmental attitude and, before I knew it, we were inseparable. Then I left
to pursue my rock star dreams—dreams she encouraged.
I got over Jaymes Grenier no problem. I never
think about that little bow at the top of her pink lips, or the way her green
eyes admired mine. Nope, I barely recall the way she fit so perfectly in my
arms when I held her at night. The sweet way she would whisper she loved me has
long faded from memory.
These are the lies I regularly tell myself
in hopes of believing them one day. Yeah, I was told I'd get over my first
love.
I didn't.
Derrick Masters marked me the moment we met back
in ninth grade. He called me over—all bravado and bad boy mystery wrapped in a
James Dean-esque package. Dark hair and blue eyes with a rebel without a cause
charisma. He was everything I was warned about, but I couldn't resist. I
was his from that moment on.
His career took off almost as soon as he
did. I knew it would. I just thought I would be beside him as his partner in
crime, best friend, and lover. That's what we had always been … before he left
me behind to fend for myself.
Fend? Fight is more like it.
I've been fighting ever since.
Fighting for survival.
Fighting for a better life in a world determined
to keep me down.
I don't have the luxury of letting my head live
in the lure of La La Land. His dreams may have come true, but mine were
extinguished. These days I fight for something bigger than me, bigger than we
were ever meant to be.
When his dreams come crashing back into my
reality, is this a second chance at that fairy tale ending or another
heartbreak in the making?
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Excerpt
On the front porch, leaning against the wood column in all
his newfound glory, stands the most breathtaking man I've ever seen. As a
teenager, I thought he was the best-looking boy I'd ever seen,
and based on how I'm struggling to breathe just from looking at him now, I
think he still holds the title. But now he's a man.
Ace is talking about what some kid named Shiloh got in
trouble for today at school, but I'm still staring at Derrick Masters.
Derrick Masters.
My very own Perseus, though right now I'm thinking he was
more my Achilles heel in the grand scheme of things.
Derrick Masters is standing on my mother's front porch like
he belongs there. A smile that shines like the star he's become appears and he
waves. Not sure if it was the grin on his face or the wave that sends me
tripping flat on my face into the grassy lawn, but I'm cursing the curb when I
lift up and look right into the dark blue eyes I've tried to despise.
"Are you okay?" he asks, trying to help me up. His voice is
deep, the timbre the same one that always made my heart beat a little faster.
It's not that thought that runs through my mind. It's his hands on me,
grappling to help me to my feet.
He's touching me.
Derrick Masters is touching me and I consider lying there
longer just to savor the feel of his calloused fingers again. Ace tugs at my
ankle like that will help me up. "Mommy, you fell."
Mommy.
Mommy.
Derrick knows I'm a mommy.
Oh my God. What does he think?
Does he hate me? Disappointed in me? Happy for me? Or not
care at all?
I would care if I found out he has kids.
Maybe he already knew . . .
Maybe I'll just lie here as long as I can until he goes
away.
Ace lies down next to me and rests his face on my hand.
Looking at me with wide eyes, he asks, "Are we playing a game? This is fun."
"Yes, I quite like it here."
I hear Derrick chuckling just above me, enough to feel his
warmth covering my body like sunshine as I lie in the cool grass. I might be
mistaken but it sounds like he's behind me now. On the ground with me.
Ace's eyes look over my head. "My friend is here too." He
giggles. "See? Right there."
Lying like a dead fish, I smile at my cute son not quite
ready to face Derrick Masters. "What's your new friend's name?"
"Derrick. He plays a guitar like you, Mommy."
After a tap on the back, Ace's new friend speaks, "Hi."
I miss Derrick's hands on me, even if it was just helping me
up. Ace is a ball of laughter and gets up. I watch until he runs behind me.
"I'm here now. We're all here. This is fun. Oh look, the moon."
I can't avoid him forever and the grass is grounding,
literally, and settles my anxiety over just this kind of thing happening. I've
embarrassed myself and he's found out I'm a mother in the course of one sexy
smile and a wave. I shake my head and close my eyes annoyed with myself for
acting so foolishly in front of him. He was once my everything. When
I roll onto my back, the top of our hands meet in an innocent touch that
neither of us bothers to retreat. Finally building enough nerve, I turn my head
and look straight into his eyes again. "Hi," I whisper.
That devastatingly charming smile reappears, and he says,
"It's good to see you, Jaymes."
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My Review
The Rebellion by S.L. ScottMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The Rebellion by S.L. Scott is a standalone novel that ties into the the world brought to us by the Hard To Resist series and the fifth book released that deals with the band members of the rock band aptly named, The Resistance! This book is about one of the newer band members, Derrick and his first and only love he left behind, Jaymes, in order to seek out his dreams of being a rock star.
Derrick is five years out of his old life of danger, this, gangs, and trouble. Five years away from the only girl he has ever loved but despite the nameless bodies he's used over the years, he cannot get her out of his head. His apathy is starting to show, however, and his band mates are getting concerned that he will burn out and it won't be pretty. Smartly taking their advice, when the tour is over he goes back home and learns that his wonderful mother has been in recent contact with her old best friend, who just happens to be Jaymes' mother. God bless her interfering soul, he may have just the in he needs to get to see her again for the first time in years.
Jaymes, Jamie to everyone but Derrick, has not had it easy since he left her five years ago. She knows it was best - obviously - he is a rock star now. He made it. His dreams came true. But the life she has lead since has been hard. For her, her mother, and her young son. When she sees Derrick again her walls are up and she isn't ready to let him in. Never mind that she is the one that pushed him away back then. Forced him to leave her to pursue his dreams while sacrificing her own. Plus she is in danger, and so is he. The "friend" he left in his dust is out for blood and will take his vengeance from whomever he can.
Powerful, emotional, this story runs the gamut of emotions from behind the scenes in the Rock Star world to behind closed doors in a dangerous neighborhood with predators out for blood. Standalone, told in dual POV with some familiar faces as secondary characters. Well-paced and well-written, I love S.L. Scotts work and haven't read enough of her by far (downside to a blogging/reviewing schedule sometimes). This was fabulous! Enjoy!
Living in the capital of Texas with her family, Scott loves traveling and avocados, beaches, and cooking with her kids. She's obsessed with epic romances and loves a good plot twist. Her favorite color is blue, but she likens it more toward the sky than the emotion. Her home is filled with the welcoming symbol of the pineapple and finds surfing a challenge though she likes to think she's a pro.
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