We are so excited to reveal the paperback cover for Lead Me
Not!
Aubrey Duncan understands loss. She knows what rock bottom looks like, and she is determined to crawl back up to the top after the sudden death of her younger sister. She blames herself for her part in the tragedy, convinced that she could have done something, anything, to help her.
In her effort to gain redemption, Aubrey starts fresh at Longwood University and facilitates an addiction support group, hoping she can support someone else in the way she failed her sister. But what she doesn’t count on is an all-consuming fascination with group member Maxx Demelo, a gorgeous, blond, blue-eyed enigma who hides dark secrets behind a carefully constructed mask. He only reveals what he wants others to see. But Aubrey glimpses another Maxx hidden below the surface—a Maxx who is drowning in his own personal hell.
As Aubrey and Maxx develop an attraction too intense to ignore, he pulls her into the dark underbelly of the city club scene, where she is torn by her desire to save him and an inexplicable urge to join him in his downward spiral. Worst of all, she is beginning to love everything she should run away from—a man who threatens to ignite in her a fire that could burn her alive...
RELEASE DATE
AUGUST 5, 2014
EXCERPT
His eyes were piercing in their
directness and I knew he wasn’t fooled by my attempts at
sarcasm and
nonchalance. My uncomfortable attraction to him, that had begun only a
few days before, practically oozed from my pours. It was
mortifying
And I knew I needed to shut this
down. For both of our sakes. It wasn’t appropriate. And he was
making me feel...disconcerted.
“Well, I think the
group is going to be really helpful. I’m sure you’ll
get a lot out of
it,” I said lamely, hoping he got the point. It seemed extremely
important to remind us both of who I was and what my role
was in his
life. I needed to reinforce where I belonged. I
was a counselor in
training. Someone to guide him on a difficult journey
.
Nothing
more.
Maxx gave me a
look that
was hard to decipher. “I hope you’re right,” he said, running a dirty
hand across his face, leaving a smudge along the bridge of his nose.
I had to clench my hand
into a
fist in order to resist the urge to wipe it away. And
I knew there was
more than my OCD at work here.
His words unsettled
me. Was I reading a subtext that wasn’t there? Or was he
purposefully communicating something that I had yet to figure
out?
My guess was the
latter.
He suddenly dropped his
eyes
and I was surprised by the vulnerability that danced across
his face.
“I really
hope
you’re right,” he said softly and I didn’t know whether
the comment was for him
or for me.
I tilted my head at
him, looking at him closely. He seemed lost in thought and I wondered
what had him so consumed.
I couldn’t help but
be
curious about him. He made it impossible not to be. He
was obviously a
complicated man with a complicated past. I was simultaneously intrigued
and annoyed that I was intrigued.
Because there was a definite line I
shouldn’t cross. So why after meeting this man once
was that boundary so
hard for me to remember?
Maxx frowned and opened
his
mouth, then closed it again. Then he looked at me and I watched as his
face smoothed over and any sign of openness was lost.
AUTHOR BIO
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary and Paranormal romance including the Find You in the Dark and Bad Rep series as well as the upcoming stand alone romance, Reclaiming the Sand, and a dark new adult series for Gallery Books.
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