We are excited to celebrate the release of PLAYING THE PAUSES by Michelle
Hazen. This is the second
installment in her Sex, Love, and Rock & Roll series. Follow the tour for
reviews, excerpts, guest posts, plus enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card!
“Hazen’s use of the frantic energy
of a rock band’s tour contrasts perfectly with the slow and seductive dance
this couple engages in. Readers are sure to enjoy following The Red Letters on
their drama-fueled climb to fame. “ —RT Book Reviews
“To call Playing the Pauses an erotic novel alone would be to belie its equally strong explorations of the boundaries between personal, career, and sexual growth.” —Midwest Book Review
“To call Playing the Pauses an erotic novel alone would be to belie its equally strong explorations of the boundaries between personal, career, and sexual growth.” —Midwest Book Review
When an ultra-independent
tour manager meets the one musician she can’t resist, their kinks fit together
perfectly, but their lives don’t. Michelle Hazen is back with PLAYING THE
PAUSES, the second, stand-alone installment in her Sex, Love, and Rock &
Roll series. Fans of Kylie Scott’s Stage Dive Series and YOU REALLY GOT ME by
Erika Kelly, will love this bad boy, friends with benefits romance with a dash
of BDSM mixed in.
Title: Playing the Pauses
Author:
Michelle
Hazen
Release
Date: March
5, 2018
Publisher:
Self-published
Series: Sex, Love, and Rock & Roll #2
Genres:
Contemporary
Romance
Page
Count: 290
Synopsis:
Rock Star Dom + his Queen of the Spreadsheet employee = KRYPTONITE
Kate is a globe-trotting
tour manager who can’t be tied down.
Danny is a Dominant
rock star and tattoo artist who needs her help to explore his true kinks.
Kate just got her big
break, running an international tour for a rising band. Her job is everything
to her…at least until she meets the band’s enigmatic bass player.
After they collide in
one unforgettably erotic night on a hotel balcony, he comes to her with a
proposition. As a former BDSM club performer, Danny’s spent so long fulfilling
other people’s fantasies that now he wants to reclaim his own—and he says she’s
the only one who can help.
Getting caught in bed
with her rock star boss could cost her career, and yet there’s something about
Danny’s quiet intensity that she can’t resist. He steals her heart, hard. But
the end of the tour is approaching, and their jobs are headed two different
directions.
To be together one of
them will have to stop touring, but the only thing they crave as much as each
other is music.
**
This book can be read and understood as a standalone, but does contain spoilers
for earlier books in the series. **
About Michelle
Hazen:
Which Beer
Represents You?
My upcoming rock star romance, A CRUEL KIND OF BEAUTIFUL, is
set in Portland, an area known for its hipsters, indie bands, and microbrew. In
honor of that, I thought I would choose the microbrew that best encapsulated
the personality of each character:
Jera: New Belgium’s Citradelic Tangerine IPA. On first
glance, this is a fun, refreshing beer. Light, cute, and with enough sass to be
perfect for summertime. But after your first sip, you realize there are WAY
more complex flavors than you were expecting and a tang of almost-bitter hops
underlying everything. Just like the beer, there’s a lot more darkness and
depth to the girl than first meets the eye-or more likely, the ear, since Jera
always shows up with witty quip at the ready. Bonus points because her
classic-rock roots and and secret love of puns means she’d love the play on
words of citradelic/psychadelic.
Jacob: Jera’s yummy love interest is perfectly represented
by an Oregon original: Deschutes Brewery’s Obsidian Stout. It’s smooth and
chocolatey, almost sweet but more addictive than sugary. Strong. So
beautifully, incredibly strong. You don’t get all its secrets in the first sip,
but this is a drink you could trust with your affection for years to come, and
it would never let you down.
Jera’s bandmates:
Danny: To find the right beer for Jera’s bassist, I had to
make a black and tan with two of my Oregon-brewed favorites: Rogue Chocolate
Stout and Rogue Chipotle Ale. It’s got a whip-sharp bite, soothed with the deep,
trustworthy presence of the dark beer beneath. What you see is what you get,
but it could take you months to sort out all the flavors, the twists and turns
of exactly what it is that HE is. He’s got things he doesn’t tell his best
friend Jera. Things he won’t tell you. And things about him that are true that
he’s never spent a second’s thought on.
Jax: The lead
singer and guitarist of Jera’s band is Payette Brewing’s Recoil IPA. It’s
bright and attention grabbing right up front. Beautiful and charming. But it
fades too quickly, before he’s ready for you to forget him. And so soon that
you’re left wondering if you ever really knew him at all.
So, preorder your copy
of A Cruel Kind of Beautiful to meet the band and see if you think I picked the
right beers to represent each person. I’d love to hear in the comments what
beverage (alcoholic or otherwise!) you think would best describe YOUR
personality.
*Disclaimer: I’m not getting kickbacks
from any of these beer companies, and I’m not trying to oversell or undersell
any of them. Just one author’s opinion about taste, and the metaphor it brings
to mind about character.
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