TITLE:
Unplugged (Blue Phoenix, #3)
AUTHOR:
Lisa Swallow
RELEASE DATE:
September 29th
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
Synopsis
"A rock star doesn't return
to his humble beginnings and whisk away the girl he
kissed once. Especially if she has
a four year old and her relationship status is
'it's
complicated'."
Blue Phoenix bass player, Liam
Oliver discovers pictures of his fiancée with
another man and his world crashes
around him. He packs up his humiliation and
hurt and flies back to his Welsh
family home for Christmas.
Cerys Edwards once had pictures of
Liam Oliver covering her bedroom wall. Her
best friend’s big brother never
gave her the time of day when they were growing
up. When she was fifteen, he left
town leaving Cerys with her fantasies. Now he’s
back. The problem is, she has a
daughter and a broken relationship of her own.
In the world of his Christmas past,
Cerys and Liam reconnect. Are they two hurt
people looking for comfort in a
time of heartbreak or does Cerys have a place
in
Liam’s future
too?
Months later and unplugged from
his Blue Phoenix lifestyle, Liam reconnects
with Cerys. He discovers Cerys’s
world is full of complications he never
expected
– including Ella’s father who
isn’t happy about being replaced by a rock
star.
Unplugged is more than a rock star
romance. Liam isn’t dark and brooding like
Dylan, or a bad boy like Jem but a
fiercely loyal man with a big heart. This is a
story of love, family and
unexpected bonds made that can’t be broken.
This is book three of the Blue
Phoenix series. It can be read as a standalone but
has
minor spoilers for books one and
two.
Extract
Our faces touch, his rough cheek
against my forehead, and I know if I
move my head a few centimetres,
our mouths will meet and our worlds will shift.
"Is kissing you still
wrong?" I ask.
"Your lips are meant to be on
mine." He moves his face. The static
charge of our mouths so close and
the snow drifting onto our bodies drag us
into a surreal world. The shift
happens. I slide my cheek along his, the stubble
scratching my skin as my lips meet
the edge of his.
The world is covered in white,
hidden from reality; a reality that I hate
currently. I can escape for an
evening, maybe a few days, and allow his
blizzard
to overwhelm me. If life is the
same struggle when everything melts away again,
a few moments lost in a fantasy
after months of feeling worthless are what I
need
and worth the
consequences.
Liam digs his hand into my hair
and crashes his mouth against mine.
I gasp in surprise at the force as
he delves his tongue into my mouth, sliding
against mine. When Liam kissed me
in the bedroom the other day, there was a
tension in him where he held back
part of himself. Was this because Liam knew
I did too? This time the world
falls away completely as we kiss frantically,
noses
bumping as he pulls me into the
snowstorm that is Liam Oliver.
Liam moves to kiss my cheeks, a
delicious scrape against my skin as his
hot lips burn into my cool neck.
He slides a hand around my waist, beneath my
coat and holds me against him.
Convinced my legs are going to give way and
cursing the lack of walls for Liam
to press me against, I grip his sleeve.
Liam nudges his nose back across
my face, hot breath mingling with mine
and misting in the air.
“Definitely feels right,” he whispers.
Then Liam kisses me so gently that
he takes my soul and pulls it apart. My
head spins as the intensity of the
slow kiss fills me with a craving for this man
that will never be satiated. This
is more than feeling right, this is our hearts
open
and raw finding their way
together.
Which means when they’re torn
apart again the pain will kill me.
The heat we create counteracts the
falling temperature around us but the
cold of reality isn't far. I pull
my face away; I need to pull myself out of this.
Teasers
Blue
Phoenix
Series
Author Bio
Lisa is an author of new adult romance and
writes both paranormal and contemporary, often with a
side of snark.
In between running a business, looking after
her family and writing, Lisa sometimes finds
spare
time to do other things. This often involves
swapping her book worlds for gaming worlds. She
even
leaves the house occasionally. Lisa loves all
things from the Whedonverse and preferred
vampires
before they
sparkled.
Lisa has four books published: the ‘Butterfly
Days’ series, and two in her urban fantasy series
Soul
Ties. She is currently working on a new
contemporary romance series Blue Phoenix and the
first
book, Summer Sky is due for release in April.
Lisa is originally from the UK but moved to
Australia
in 2001 and now lives in Perth in Western
Australia with her husband, three children and dog.
Author
Links
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/lisaswallowbooks
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/lisa_swallow_au
Website:
www.lisaswallow.net
Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/author/show/7091632.Lisa_Swallow
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