When Prince Charming is the biggest rock star in the world…

And Cinderella broke up with him before he got famous.

She became a journalist. He never got over her.

And now there’s only one person he’ll grant an interview to…

But there’s a price.

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Kaitlyn Reynolds is a year out of college and fighting to become a journalist when she gets the biggest break of her life: the shot at a cover story in Rolling Stone magazine.

But there’s a catch.

She’ll be covering the hottest bad-boy in rock, Derek Kane, who Kaitlyn met when she was a freshman in college and he was a struggling unknown. It was passionate two-week affair: tumultuous, sensual, exhilarating…

…and it ended very, very badly.

Now Kaitlyn has to decide whether she can face the pain of the past, her fear of the future – and the man who might just have been the One.

Warning: there is cheating, a love triangle, and a Happily For Now ending. Profanity and adult situations.

Excerpt from ROCK ME HARD The Rock Star's Seduction Complete Series:

Kaitlyn

I thought about the last time I saw him, years before, back when I was an undergrad…

When he was broke and struggling, just a guy with a dream.

Before he was Derek Kane, the most famous rock star in the world.

We were standing outside my dorm by my car. There was a horrible, nauseating sadness in my stomach. If I could have put off this moment forever, I would have.

“…I guess this is it,” I whispered. I could feel myself perilously close to crying.

“It doesn’t have to be,” he said.

I frowned. “What do you mean?”

He took my hands in his.

“Stay with me,” he whispered, his green eyes gazing deep into mine.

My lips trembled. “I… I can’t…”

“Yes you can. If you really want to, you can. Stay with me. You can crash at my friend’s house for a couple of weeks… I know he’ll let you stay there until I can find a second job. I’ll get a better place, you can live with me and go to school while I get the band going…”

I had to look away. Tears filled my eyes. “I… I’m supposed to go to NYU…”

“You can keep going to journalism school here.”

“I already told them I’m leaving…”

“They’ll let you back in. Stay with me.”

I started crying. “I can’t.”

Derek took my face in his hands and looked at me so sweetly, it hurt. “If you walk away now, you’re going to regret it for the rest of your life.”

“…if I don’t walk away now, I’m going to regret it, too.”

“Then just stay with me one more week.”

I shook my head.

He tried to bargain. “Then just two more days…”

I shook my head every time.

“Then give me just one more night,” he pleaded. “I want to make love to you… give me that, at least…”

“I can’t,” I cried.

“It’s better to regret the things you did than the things you didn’t.”

I shook my head as the tears poured down my cheeks. “Not if it hurts someone you love.”

“He’ll never know,” he whispered.

“I will.”

“Stay with me, Kaitlyn… please. Stay.”

I was bawling now, my body shaking and trembling.

He saw I wasn’t going to give in, and he relented. He smiled at me so sadly, so sweetly, and then he leaned over and softly pressed his lips to mine, kissing me through my tears.

He pulled back and looked me in the eyes. “Have a wonderful life. I love you.”

“I love you too,” I sobbed – and then, afraid of what I might do if I stayed one second longer, I jumped in the car, cranked the key, and drove away.

Years later, he came back into my life...

But this time, it was on his terms.

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