Do you know what it feels like right before lightning strikes? How you can feel the current running through your veins? The trembles of warning that ripple through the air? It was a thrill Tamar King chased all her life until it became the very thing she had to escape.
For the last four years, Tamar King has hidden herself in an isolated world she created. She was safe. No one could touch her. Until Lyrik West walked through her door.
He’s the lead guitarist for Sunder and everything she can never have. The dark and beautiful rock star becomes everything she craves.
Lyrik’s life has been devoted to his band and that success has cost him. Bitter, hard, and filled with regret, he refuses to lose himself again, but from the moment he sees her, he wants one night with Tamar King.
The gorgeous bartender is more than he bargained for. Their attraction is consuming. Their desire overpowering. With one touch, they ignite.
But is it worth the cost of getting burned?
She’s a gorgeous nightmare and he’s a wicked dream…
WHERE LIGHTNING STRIKES, a Bleeding Stars Stand-Alone Novel
MICHELLE’S REVIEW
So I am a huge A.L. Jackson fan. I love how emotionally packed her stories are. I was really looking forward to Lyrik and Tamar’s story. I knew AL was going to snack me with a rollercoaster of emotions but I never saw some of this coming.
Tamar is SUCH a survivor. She’s been through hell and throughout this story she fully crawls her way out of that hell.
Lyrik is everything you expect from a rock star hero. Sexy, bad boy, and broken.
Now- I have to admit- while I did love this book overall, I had some issues. I did not love how when Lyrik got scared and pushed Tamar away he always insulted her in such a deep way that it broke MY heart.
And for me- some of the ways in which he pushed her- she forgave him way to easily. I was all for them getting their happy ending but after a bit I was wondering if Lyrik deserved her. Part of why I didn’t get Lyrik for so long is that it takes almost the entire book before we really find out what has him so broken. It’s tough but I still felt like it didn’t merit how much of an asshole he was to Tamar at times.
All that aside- Lyrik is the reason that Tamar finds her bravery and in the end they are a good match. I think Tamar made this book for me. While I was sometimes mad at her for forgiving him too easily- I came to realize that a lot of times what felt weak to me was actually her version of being strong. And the kind of love she had for Lyrik (and vice versa) is nothing I have ever experienced, so at some level- I probably just don’t understand that connection but I was able to appreciate it.
BTW- if you thought the chemistry was going to be off the charts for these two- you were right. So sexy.
I loved the epilogue. I was teary eyed through almost all of it.
This book can probably be read as a standalone but it is part of a series. I’m looking forward to more from the Sunder gang. There was also something in the epilogue that has my curiosity at an all time high. I won’t spoil it for you but there’s something I am dying to know.
Book #1 - READ MICHELLE’S REVIEW HERE
He wanted nothing at all…
Until he found she had everything to give…
Sunder lead singer and guitarist Sebastian Stone has everything—fans, fame, and fortune. He also has a heart full of bitterness and a reputation for a short-fused temper. But an outward reputation rarely reveals the true man inside. Facing assault charges after trying to protect his younger brother, Sebastian is sent to Savannah, Georgia to lie low until the dust settles in L.A.
Shea Bentley is beautiful, kind, and hiding from the very lifestyle Sebastian has always embraced.
When the mysterious, tattooed stranger begins hanging out at the bar where she works, Shea is quick to recognize he is nothing but trouble, but she’s helpless to the way her body lights up every time his intense gray eyes tangle with hers.
They both soon find themselves drowning in a sea of desire and passion that won’t let them up for air.
Sebastian knows firsthand secrets never die, and he’s not the only one who’s hiding them.
Loving someone always comes with a price. But will it be Shea’s past that costs them everything?
PURCHASE HERE: AMAZON
Book #2 - READ MICHELLE’S REVIEW HERE
The danger in pretending is it becoming real…
Sebastian Stone, Sunder front man and guitarist with a rap sheet about ten miles long, escaped to Savannah, Georgia, to get away from the trouble he’d caused.
Not find more of it.
The moment he saw Shea Bentley, he saw beneath all her sweet and innocence to something that went deeper.
Darker.
Their relationship was built on secrets; their love built on lies.
Sebastian never imagined how deep her secrets went.
When the past and present collide, Sebastian and Shea find themselves fighting for a future neither believed they deserved. Their passion is consuming and their need unending.
Now, holding the truth in his hands, Sebastian is faced with sacrificing everything he’s come to love to protect Shea and his family.
Two pasts intertwined.
Two lives bound.
Will their demons drown them or will Shea and Sebastian finally learn to breathe?
Drowning to Breathe
A Bleeding Stars Novel, Book 2
AUTHOR INFO
A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as well as other contemporary romance titles, including Pulled, When We Collide, and If Forever Comes.
She first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college student. She filled the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.
Years later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest friends and, with their encouragement, this story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children.
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