Readers of Cara Connelly’s Save the Date series met Jack
and Lil McCabe in The Wedding Favor. Go
back in time and experience Jack and Lil’s original love story, with a hefty
dose of romance and suspense. Ready to
Rock, is Connelly’s first indie title. Ready to Rock won RWA’s Golden Heart
award (under the title The Sinners), and the Valley Forge Romance Writer’s
Sheila Award (also under The Sinners).
His
name's on everyone's lips--sexy rocker Jack McCabe. His gritty New York City
band is red hot, almost as hot as his fiery affair with photography student Lil
Marchone, the girl from his past, now the woman he loves. The problem is, Lil's
controlling ex wants her back. Rich, powerful, and ruthless, he'll stop at
nothing--including murder--to get Jack out of her life. But Jack's a badass
himself, always up for a fight. And with the stakes this high, he'll risk
everything for Lil, even his band. Even his life.
A wolf whistle sliced through the street noise, calling me
back to the present. I’d wandered into the crosshairs of a dozen construction
workers sitting along the Jersey barriers that separated their work site from
the sidewalk. They were eating lunch and checking out the girls, including me.
Most of them were grinning. One waggled his fingers in a wave.
Hiding
behind my sunglasses, I pretended to ignore them while I checked them out from
the corner of my eye. They were the usual assortment of sizes and shapes. A few
beer guts, a few shaved heads. But when my gaze hit the last guy in the row, I
did a double take. And then I froze in my tracks.
Jesus
Christ, it can’t be him!
But it was.
I would have known him anywhere.
Slowly,
inexorably, I walked toward him. Obviously, he didn’t recognize me. He wasn’t
whistling or grinning like the others, just watching me with a calm expression,
admiring but not leering.
I stopped
directly in front of him. “Jack? Jack McCabe?”
Surprise flickered
in his eyes, but he said coolly, “Who’s Jack McCabe?”
I pulled
off my sunglasses. “He’s the man who pulled me out of a burning car six years
ago.”
His eyes
widened. “Well, hell,” he breathed. Then he broke into a smile so dazzling that
it literally knocked me back a step.
My God,
he’s gorgeous! His face was cut from the finest granite, rugged with two
days’ beard. His black hair was straight and glossy, falling loose to his
shoulders. And when he stood up, he towered over me, six foot two and built
like you dream about, narrow waist rising in a V to wide chest and broad
shoulders, his long arms roped with the lean muscle of a man who earns it the
hard way—by working, not lifting weights at a gym.
Touching
one big hand to the small of my back, he started to walk, drawing me away from
the rest of the guys.
Cara Connelly is the
author of the Save the Date series of contemporary romances published by Avon
Romance. The latest book in the series, The Wedding Gift, was released in May
2015. Cara’s smart and sexy stories have won several awards, including the
Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart, the Valley Forge Romance Writers’
Sheila, and the Music City Romance Writers’ Melody of Love. A former attorney
and law professor, she lives with her husband Billy in the woods of upstate New
York.
Learn about Cara’s
Save the Date series
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