Title: Date With a Rockstar
Author: Sarah Gagnon
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporary
Synopsis: Only one girl will win the cash prize...and a chance at love
with Jeremy Bane.
Monet isn’t just another lust-struck
teenager trying to win the heart of Rock God Jeremy Bane--she needs the prize
money from his new reality show to cure her illness.
Monet has Fluxem, a contagious
disease that's spread through saliva. It's completely curable if you have
enough money, which she and her single mother don't. Now that she's on the
show, Monet has to work harder to keep her Fluxem hidden. She only has to keep
the secret long enough to woo Jeremy Bane so he picks her as the winner. She
doesn't even care about the love part; the prize alone will change her life.
But the real Jeremy Bane is nothing
like she imagined. Monet finds herself fighting against feelings that make her
want to give in to her attraction and Jeremy's attempts for a kiss. The
further she goes in the competition, the more impossible it becomes to resist
him--and when the producers turn the tables and start digging up dirt on the
contestants, Monet fears her secret will be revealed before she's ready and ruin
everything.
The only way to win Jeremy's heart is to tell him the
truth, but confessing her disease could cost her the competition, the prize
money, and him.
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Excerpt:
I can’t speak. What lie do I tell to make him stop
asking me this question? The camera wheels closer. Please leave me alone.
Another hiccup hits me. I try to swallow and say something, but I gag instead.
Shit. I jump up and spots float in front of my face. “I’m going to be sick,” I
try to mumble as I snatch up my bag and bury my face in it as I run to the
door.
“Down the hall to the right!” the interviewer yells
as the door closes behind me. I bang into the bathroom and barely make it into
one of the stalls. My stomach empties and tears plop down into the mess. It
takes a minute for the disaster my interview just became to sink in. I flush
away the evidence of my failure and sit back on my heels in front of the
disgusting toilet. I ruined my one chance. After all that waiting in line, I
blow it in front of the camera.
Minutes pass as I weep in disbelief. I suck. I dig
in my bag for breath mints or some reminder of my real life. The stale crust of
my vitamin spread sandwich makes me feel worse. Nice reminder.
There’s a knock on the door. “Hey, are you all
right in there?” Oh, great. They’ve sent someone to make sure I’m not dying.
“Yeah, I’ll just be another minute.”
The door opens and I see sneakers coming toward me
from where I’m crouched by the toilet. “Do you want me to get you a glass of
water?”
Wow, nice intern. “No, I’ll
be okay. I’m sorry I wasted everyone’s time. I’ll be out of here shortly.” I
wipe my mouth with toilet paper and swallow repeatedly to try and make the
tears stop. I push the stall door open and smack Jeremy Bane.
My whole world freezes.
Jeremy Bane is in the bathroom. Jeremy Bane just
asked if he could get me water. He’s standing next to me. He heard me puke, and
wow, he’s just as pretty as the documentary said he was. Even better in person.
But I just puked. I need to just rewind this
section of my life and clean up. His hand brushes my arm.
Holy
crap, Jeremy Bane is in the ladies room because of me.
Sarah Gagnon grew up in the frigid woods of Maine amidst
snow and animal skins and has now moved back home. As a small child she wrote
ship-wrecked romances all while being stared down by a taxidermied duck.
She has a BFA in photography and a minor in writing from the
University of Southern Maine. She's the mother of two tiny, feral children and
two ill-behaved dogs. For fun she’s taken up construction and interior design.
Her first project: moving into a dilapidated farmhouse with her computer-genius
husband.
Author Social Media Links:
Website: http://www.sarahgagnon.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fancypantssarah
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