Title: Inferno
Author: Kathryn Kelly
Release Date: March 10th 2015
Amazon AISN: B00U3DW1WE
CreateSpace ISBN 13: 9781507723661
Smashwords ISBN: 9781310199202
Are ISBN: KTHKLX0000006
I’m a rocker with the eyes of the world on me. Waiting for my triumph or my downfall…just waiting.
Most of my life is in my hands. My destiny? That’s another story. My destiny isn’t as debt free.
My band, Phoenix Rising, arrives in Houston to cut a new album. Before we perform our first concert in the city and I choose my groupies of the night, I’m thrust into debauchery. Sleeping with a gorgeous woman twenty years older than me has its perks, especially when her husband orchestrated the encounter and eagerly watches. To me, performing is performing. If a man wants to share his wife, who am I to stop him?
Unfortunately for me, I don’t make a clean getaway as I leave the McCall mansion. Georgie, their sixteen-year-old daughter, is in the midst of her own intrigue, sneaking home in the middle of the night after an evening of drugs and sex with her older brother’s best friend. In her, I see me. She’s lost and drifting. Her hedonistic parents insist she’s old enough to make her own decisions. Instead of time and love, they give her money and things.
I’m a twenty-five-year old international superstar and I know better. I’m cocky and arrogant. I know it so I own it. Somehow, I’ve always bested the fates. I have all to lose—my reputation, my career, and my freedom. Her mother’s jealousy forces my hand and I take Georgie on the tour.
This is our story and our secret relationship and the destruction of my life. You know the adage about secrets? Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Wise words from a wise man. If only I had listened. Secrets have a way of revealing themselves in the harshest way.
WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO WRITE INFERNO:
Inferno was inspired after I read a news article about a much older man who fell in love with a girl when she was 16. My imagination took over from there and Georgie and Sloane were born. The ending to the real story was sad and heartbreaking. However, Georgie and Sloane will ultimately find happiness.
Hooking a finger inside my mesh T-shirt, she shakes her head. She really likes touching me. If I did relationships, I’d get her number. Give the paparazzi another reason to chase me and attempt to pick apart my actions. They’ve supposedly pegged my type. What would they say if I introduced her as my lover? Young and dark-haired. I can’t think of a better way to fuck with them.
“You aren’t an addict anymore.” Her voice breaks into my contemplations.
“You’ve been clean since you demolished the record company’s studio and you’re halfway through the American leg of your tour. You’re not messing that up. I won’t allow it.”
Her defiance makes me laugh, although my heart hammers. While I consider using her for my amusement, her concern for me is genuine. “It isn’t for me. It’s for a special friend.”
“That porn star you’re dating?”
Fuck, she really does follow my life closely. “I’ve never dated one porn star.” Although I fucked several on the plane ride to Houston. “I want the fucking baggie. Now.”
Again, she denies me with a shake of her head. I suspect she’s used to getting her way. Is it because she’s spoiled or ignored, I don’t know. I do know what she needs, though. Discipline. Structure. Focus. At one time, I found it in my music. Lately, not even music has been enough to subdue my restiveness.
Asshole steps beside her. “Powder belongs to me,” he says tightly, a handkerchief pressed to his bleeding nose, his eye already swelling. “It’s my decision who gets it or not and I’ve chosen her.”
Cursing, I dig in my back pocket and offer him all the hundreds I have.
“Sloane, please.” Her tortured whisper will haunt me. The care and concern infused in it is more than I get from anyone. “Do you swear it isn’t for you?”
I nod and, as quickly as I came upon her, she leaves. Just like that. A delicate star brightening my life one moment and an elusive angel floating forever away the next.
Long minutes later, I sit with the coke, fighting the urge to do a line. My hands actually shake.
“Sloane, please…”
Her plea bounces in my head and her scent remains on my fingers, my lips, and in my mouth. For her, the sad, little temptress, I find the nearest bathroom and flush the blow. Then, I splash water on my face. It isn’t cold at all, so it doesn’t give my system the shock it needs to snap back from my encounter with her.
I regret not forcing the issue about her name. All it took was one look from me to get my dick into her mouth. I’m sure one, cold command for her name would’ve produced results, too. Maybe, I didn’t want to know it. A name is so personal. This way, our sex remained simple and unencumbered with expectations.
She said I’d forget her name, so she never bothered to offer it to me. But, she’s a younger, softer, feminine version of me. For the rest of my life, I’ll remember the unidentified waif with the gorgeous purple eyes.
Sloane Mason is the front man for the extremely
successful rock band Rising Phoenix and is in Houston to work on the band’s
last album. Sleeping with groupies, he has experienced
his fair share of unusual sexual situations but when a friend of his
father's sets him up to sleep with his wife while he watches, is a whole new
ball game. Getting out without anyone knowing was the plan but
when the couple’s sixteen year old daughter Georgiana (Georgie) see
for idol in the house, there are more questions than answers. When Sloane shows some interest in what’s
happening to Georgie, her mother Cassandra start to get jealous. To help straighten Georgie out Sloane takes
her on tour with him but what will it cost both of them in the end?
I was given this in exchange for an honest review.
Georgie’s is a lost teenage who is acting out for
attention. Her parents are more worried
about themselves then what their daughter is doing. The drugs and screwing around with her older
brother’s best friend goes unnoticed in her house hold. Georgie wants some kind of attention from her
parents but her father Parnell is too busy having an affair, that he is trying
to bring into his home by bringing in men and his mistress for a foursome with
his wife to cover up the affair. This
Sloane is living the rock star life he loves. Never sleeping with the same girl twice but
this lifestyle is getting old. Doing a
favor for his father, he is the replace man in the little game Georgie’s father
has doing on. On his way out he meets
Georgie and see himself in her and wants to help out. He also see how screwed up her life is
considering Georgie’s father is having an affair with his Aunt Abby. When he is asked back by Parnell, he puts his
foot down and says no to the foursome with his Aunt. Cassandra (Georgie’s Mother) would do
anything to get him back in her bed as she fears she’s losing her husband and
an affair with a young rock star is a great ego boost but at Sloane expense.
This is the first book in the Phoenix Rising Rock
Band series and it’s off to an interesting start. I’m a sucker for a rock start romance so when
this one came up for review I had to read it.
Sloane Mason is a twenty-five year old who lives the rocks star life but
his whole life is totally screwed up.
His family is worse than him but he has his some of the blame in the
dysfunctional life he lives. Being an
addict he knows what it’s like to hit rock bottom. Meeting Georgie he sees and feeling so many
things. She is like a kindred
spirit. He knows what’s she is going
through and wants to keep for safe but also claim her for himself. Georgie’s
home life is just as screwed up. Her dad
wants to bring his affair into the house her mother see her as her competition
as she hates aging and both of her brothers aren’t in her life. The problem is no one seems to care what Georgie
does, so her drug addict and cries for help go unnoticed by her family.
There were parts of this book that disturb me as I
could never understand how Cassandra could do what she did to her own
daughter. I can honestly say Cassandra
is one screwed up woman. Although Sloane
isn’t innocent in this story but at least her cares for Georgie and wants her
healthy and safe which is a lot more than what Georgie’s mother seems to want. The struggles that both Sloane and Georgie go
throughput the book shows just how these two need each other but with the
Georgie only being sixteen it complicate everything. They have chemistry and both are in need of
unconditional love which they have but the age factor is too great considering
Georgie’s ages. I found myself rooting for them to be able to work it out but
with their families factored in and a little surprise that comes their way
leaves us with a cliff-hanger and me wanting the next book in the series
Incendiary to see what’s going to happen next and how will things turn out for
Georgie and Sloane.
Kathryn Kelly is living her dream and writing books. She's always been an avid reader and still devours books in her spare time. She also enjoys football, socializing, music, eating, and jokes. In her head, she's the ultimate biker babe. In reality, she's an ordinary girl-next-door and a native New Orleanian.
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