Play For Me
The Balefire Series Book 1
by Tam Derudder Jackson
Genre: Contemporary Romance
All I wanted was a chance. Now I need a second one.
Jack
When I made my deal with the devil, I thought I was on my way to my rock ’n’ roll dream. Too bad I didn’t read the fine print. Having it all meant giving up the only girl I knew I’d ever love. Five years later, I’m drumming in the hottest rock band in the country, but I live like a monk.
Fate hands me an opportunity to reconnect with my perfect girl, giving me one glorious night with Clio Barnes. Our chemistry is off the charts. Too bad fate plays by her own rules. When Clio hears my bandmate’s idea of a joke, she believes I’ve used her, dissolved our love into a one-night stand, and she blows out of my life. When our tour ends, I’m determined to find her again, no matter how well she hides from me.
Clio
All my life, I’ve been invisible. For a brief moment five years ago, Jack Whitehorse saw me. And he made me feel like the center of his universe. But that was an illusion. Music was Jack’s only love. A chance encounter after a Balefire concert allows us to reconnect, but once again, I’m playing second fiddle to his rock ’n’ roll muse.
When the pregnancy test comes back positive, I decide to keep our baby secret. I can’t force Jack to play for me—I wouldn’t want to. Then he shows up unexpectedly one day, knocking on my door and demanding to be let in. He leaves me no choice but to tell him about the baby. Turns out, I wasn’t the only one with a secret. But the one he’s been keeping might end us for good.
I LOVE rock music. The inspiration for Play For Me came from a line in the chorus to Shinedown’s “Second Chance”—“sometimes goodbye is a second chance.” I wanted to give NaNoWriMo a try and was looking around for an idea when I heard this song on one of my playlists. After that listen, the whole book sort of popped into my head.
Attending rock concerts is one of my hobbies, so writing a series about a rock band is right up my street. As I wrote this book, more songs kept coming to me, and pretty soon, I had a playlist that inspired scenes and events in the book. It’s sort of a chicken and egg thing though. After I finished the first draft, I couldn’t tell you if a certain song inspired a scene or if a scene led me to add a song to the playlist. But in the end, all the songs on the Play For Me playlist have something to do with the events in the story.
Black Veil Brides’ “Love Isn’t Always Fair” does double duty, which is why it’s the first song on the list. Jack Whitehorse is a virtuoso drummer for my fictional Balefire Band. Christian Coma’s drumming on that song is what I hear when I describe Jack’s incredible ability. And the lyrics fit the circumstances at the beginning of the book.
You’ll find that playlist at the back of the book and also on my Spotify if you want to give it a listen.
Tam DeRudder Jackson
Tam DeRudder Jackson is the author of the paranormal romance Talisman Series and the contemporary romance Balefire Series. Her favorite "room" in her house is her back patio where she dreams up stories of romance and risk. When she's not writing her latest paranormal or contemporary romance, you can usually find her driving around with the top down in her convertible or carving turns on the slopes of the local ski hill. The mom of two grown sons, Tam likes to travel, attend rock concerts, watch football and soccer, and visit old car shows with her husband. She lives in the mountains of northwest Wyoming where she spends most of her free time trying to read all the books. Her TBR piles are threatening to take over her office, and she's fine with that.
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