Author
Name: J. V. Speyer
Publisher:
JMS Books
Release
Date: Saturday, April 14 2018
Format: ebook
Is This
Book Romance? Yes
ISBN: 9781634866132
Price: 3.99
Story
Type: novella
Word
Count: 35000
Genres: contemporary
Pairings: f/f
Keywords/Categories: bi/lesbian
Blurb
Rock
star Jo Avery didn’t have a choice about coming out, but ever since her ex
outed her as bi she’s been a proud advocate for LGBTQ+ issues. Most of her family wants nothing to do with
her, but her brother has always supported her.
When he gets married, he wants her in the wedding party, and she has to
accept.
The only
problem? Her new sister in law is the
daughter of conservative pundit and anti-LGBT warrior Sarah Tremblay. Sarah has another daughter, too, the
beautiful and charming Valeria.
Valeria has been
in the closet since she was fourteen.
She’s always envied Jo’s strength and freedom, if not her path to living
her authentic life. She soon finds
herself falling for the fierce, pretty rocker, but coming out could cost her
everything. How many risks can she take
for someone she’ll only know for two weeks?
Can Jo and Valeria
turn attraction into love, or will their whirlwind romance blow out before it
gets off the ground?
Excerpt
"Ms. Tremblay?"
Valeria laughed at herself.
"Sorry. I'm not a morning person." She hauled herself to her feet and
dragged herself up the ornate marble stairs.
Izzy had sprawled across one of the
sofas. She wasn't a morning person either. She tried to be, for her job, but
most of the people on her floor at the bank just left her alone until eleven.
Mother sat primly on the edge of another chair, handbag clasped in her hands.
"I don't see why that little tramp isn't here yet," she snapped.
"I couldn't say, Mom."
Valeria kept her voice even and light. She didn't have to ask who the
"little tramp" might be. "The appointment doesn't start for another
fifteen minutes, so it's probably early to start worrying."
Valeria wouldn't blame Josiane if
she'd gotten right back on the plane, turned around, and headed back to where
she came from, or maybe took a two-week vacation. If Valeria were Josiane, she wouldn't
have ever come back to Westchester County, not for all the money in the world.
Of course, Valeria wouldn't have been Josiane. Valeria wouldn't have ever dared
to stand up and admit to being with a woman.
"She went to all the trouble
of having the fitting room changed, she can have the courtesy to show up on
time." Mom tossed her long, faded hair over her shoulders. "Honestly,
I'm sure she must have run absolutely wild. Don't French mothers discipline
their children?" She added a vicious glare at Izzy here.
"It's not Nathalie's fault
Izzy turned out this way, Mom." Izzy roused herself to speak now.
"She did her best. Some kids are just born bad. But Val's right. The salon
isn't even open yet. She can hardly be expected to know anyone would let her in."
Valeria frowned, but kept her mouth
shut. She suspected Simon, Josiane's security guard, had more to do with the
switch than Josiane had. What she couldn't do was to figure out why. Hopefully
Simon would have time to explain before they headed out on tour again.
Mom harrumphed, unwilling to be
mollified. Valeria hadn't expected anything else. She gently changed the
subject to the bridal shower, which Valeria was hosting later on that week.
Izzy got a little worked up by that subject, but at least it woke her up.
Mother, on the other hand, did much better once she was weaned away from the
subject of Josiane Avery.
Josiane showed up exactly two
minutes before the store opened, with Simon in tow of course. Mom gaped at them
both. "Who is this?"
Josiane gave a brittle smile.
"Mrs. Tremblay, I assume. This is Simon Parrino. He's my head of security.
Simon, you remember Isabelle, Tom's fiancée. And this is her mother, Sarah
Tremblay."
Simon didn't offer to shake Mom's
hand. He narrowed his eyes at her instead. "I understand you're the one
who called and cancelled our ride arrangements yesterday."
Valeria cringed. Simon couldn't
know, of course. He'd never met Mom, never interacted with her. He'd almost
certainly seen her on TV, but he wouldn't have experienced the full force of
her personality. He couldn't know she couldn't be challenged, not head on like
this.
Mom drew herself up to her full
height. "I most certainly did. And I'll do it again. This is Isabelle's
time, not Josiane's. Josiane is here only at her brother's insistence. She may
be an attention seeker, but I simply will not permit her to take away from
Isabelle's special day."
Valeria had seen legislators,
statesmen, and military men quail in the face of that tone from Sarah Tremblay.
Simon didn't bat an eye. "What you do not get to permit or not permit is
measures I take to ensure the safety of my clients. It was very kind of Valeria
to be willing to take time out of her busy day to pick us up and drive us
around, but those were risks she took and time she spent that she didn't need
to take onto herself. Do you realize that the last time someone took it upon
themselves to do what you did I had to shoot a man in the head?" He
stepped in a little bit closer to Mom.
"Are you threatening me?"
Mom gasped. Valeria was ninety percent sure the way Mom clutched at her pearls
was just for show.
"There were four men trying to
kidnap our drummer." Josiane interrupted. "You can feel free to look
it up. It was fairly public at the time. In the meantime, I see our consultant
is here and ready to get to work."
Their consultant, who introduced
herself as Bea, walked in with three dresses. She shot Josiane a grateful look
before turning to Simon. "I know you had concerns, Mr. Parrino, about the
camera situation. Perhaps you'd like to examine the camera room before we
begin?"
Izzy and Mom both turned pale and
exchanged glances, but Josiane just sat down with a calm expression on her
face. "Cameras?" Izzy objected. "What in the world are you
talking about?"
Author Bio
J. V.
Speyer has lived in upstate New York and rural Catalonia before making the
greater Boston, Massachusetts area her permanent home. She has worked in
archaeology, security, accountancy, finance, and non-profit management. She
currently lives just south of Boston in a house with more animals than people.
J. V.
finds most of her inspiration from music. Her tastes run the gamut from
traditional to industrial and back again. When not writing she can usually be found
enjoying a baseball game. She's learning to crochet so she can make blankets to
fortify herself against the cold.
J. V. can
be found on Twitter at @JVSpeyer, or on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/JVSpeyer
Author
Website: www.jessicawritesonline.com
Author
Twitter: @jvspeyer
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