Dear Reader,
I know how much you
loved the couples at Second Circle Tattoos. So for my next series, I wanted to
give you more of the characters you have already come to care about. Welcome to
Preload. For those who have read The Purest Hook, Preload is hero Dred Zanders'
band. And yes, for all of you who wrote to me asking for the band members to
each get their own stories after reading The Purest Hook, here they are. Jordan
is up first and will be followed by Elliott, Nikan, and Lennon. I can't wait
for you to get to know and fall in love with these men who grew up in a group
home together and the women who bring them to their knees.
And for those who
haven't read The Purest Hook, it doesn't matter because these stories are all
completely stand-alone.
Love, Scarlett
Title: Jordan
Reclaimed
Author: Scarlett Cole
Series: Preload #1
Genre: Contemporary
Romance
Pub. Date:
February 28, 2017
Synopsis:
Jordan Steele’s
life began when he was ten. When he was taken from his parents and a house that
was never a home. When he met his brothers, the other lost and abandoned boys
in his group home. When he learned what friendship and family and love looked
like.
Now he’s made
good, touring the world with the band he and his brothers formed in that
crowded group home. No one but his found family really knows the man under the
fame and fortune, the scars he hides behind the rockstar lifestyle. Until he
sees her through the windows of the National Ballet, dancing, and suddenly the
world doesn’t seem so dark.
Aleksandra
Artemov ticks all the ballet boxes. Father a legendary Kirov dancer. Check.
Prepping since birth for classical ballet. Check. Compulsive control over the
food she eats. Check. Principal dancer at The National Ballet of Canada. Check.
But what she craves is freedom.
She craves
Jordan.
Everything about him should terrify
her. His size, his tattoos, his edge. But he doesn’t. He stirs her very soul.
Jordan has nothing but himself to offer her, and he's never been good enough
for anyone. Can he figure out how to face his own demons before he loses his
light for good?
Excerpt from JORDAN RECLAIMED:
Copyright © 2017 by Scarlett Cole
He got it.
He finally got it.
He got why John Lennon left the
Beatles for Yoko.
He got why Dred wrote a love song
for Pixie.
From the moment Jordan’s lips
touched Lexi’s, he couldn’t imagine anything else feeling and tasting quite so
perfect for the rest of his life.
He ran his tongue along the seam of
her lips and she groaned, opening for him. He thrust his hands further into her
hair as their tongues touched. She tasted of wine and sweetness, and he
couldn’t get enough.
While her eyes were closed, his were
open, unwilling to miss a single moment of what was happening between them. He
angled her head, and she rose up on her toes to meet him. He thought he was
going to faint as the blood rushed from his brain to his cock, which ached for
contact.
Lexi’s arms wound their way around
his waist, her hands finding the way under his leather jacket and sweater to
rest upon his back. Skin on skin. How he wanted them to be. Naked. Exposed.
Nothing between them as he made love to her in a huge bed that they could stay
in for days.
Except he didn’t have a huge bed.
And he didn’t have the kind of room she deserved to stay in. He had an attic.
And a box under his bed that held his most treasured possessions that nobody
else would understand. A secondhand copy of Scales, Chords & Arpeggios, and the first
birthday card he ever received from Maisey and Ellen. Random shit nobody else
would care about.
Jordan pulled away slowly and looked
carefully at Lexi. Her lips were pink and plump, her cheeks flushed, her eyes
wide.
“Jordan,” she whispered.
“I gotta go. Bye, Lexi,” he said. He
needed to get home and then drink enough to forget about her. Banish the stupid
idea swirling around in his mind that they could have any kind of relationship.
He should never have kissed her. It was hard enough to walk away before, but
now that he had a clearer idea of what it was he was actually walking away
from, it hurt all the more.
“Wait,” Lexi said as she grabbed his
arm.
The small voice in his brain told
him to keep walking, but he couldn’t. Instead, he turned to see what she
wanted.
Lexi grabbed a pen from her purse,
the one she had given him to sign the napkin in the restaurant. She reached for
his hand and turned it over so his palm was facing up and quickly scribbled
something on it. When she was done, she stood on her tiptoes again and kissed
his cheek.
Weakness was a new sensation, but he
felt it down to his boots as, against his better judgment, he leaned his cheek
ever so slightly toward her lips.
“Good night, Jordan,” she said and
bounced up the porch, grabbing her hat from the chair where Jordan had tossed
it.
She paused in the doorway to wave
good-bye and then closed the door silently shut.
Only when he was certain that she
was definitely gone did he allow himself the luxury of seeing what she had
written on his hand. It was a phone number. Despite himself, he felt a murmur
of excitement that she found him worthy of a second date.
Jordan turned toward home. As snow
began to fall again, he hurriedly made the short hike across the Don Valley
river and ravine to his neighborhood, trying to halt the avalanche of emotions
because of ten hand-scribed digits.
About SCARLETT COLE
Scarlett Cole is a writer of
contemporary romance and a two-time RITA finalist. Her debut, THE STRONGEST
STEEL, has already become an Amazon best seller in romantic suspense, was a
Best Debut Goodreads Author Finalist 2015, and Authors On The Air Global Radio
Network Contemporary Romance Pick of 2015.
When Scarlett isn't writing, she
spends her time reading, hoarding mason jars, and working out to off-set an
epic sour candy habit. She likes hot men, cold beer, and expensive shoes.
Having travelled the world for work and fun, Scarlett is a
citizen of both Britain and Canada. A true city-dweller, she considers Toronto
and Manchester home and likes to set her books in vibrant locations such as
Miami and Toronto.
Rep'd by Beth Phelan at The Bent Agency, and published by
St. Martin's Press.
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