The Start of Something
by Tanith Davenport
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GENRE: Erotic romance
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BLURB:
Pop-rock singer Tamsin Keller likes to dominate, but when she breaks up with her cheating ex-boyfriend, she visits BDSM club Dante’s for another reason—to submit.
Her experience is heightened when she locks
eyes with a mysterious stranger, who turns out to be rock star and Dominant
Aspen LaRoche. Fascinated by Tamsin, he invites her to his holiday home for the
weekend and Tamsin accepts, hoping to discover more about her submissive side.
Aspen proves to be an expert tutor, and
Tamsin finds herself addicted to the pleasures he shows her. When Aspen also
discovers she is a singer, he offers her band an audition with his recording
company, and Tamsin jumps at the chance, knowing he can provide opportunities
that she has never had before.
But when Tamsin’s jealous ex reappears in her
life, will Tamsin’s career and happiness be over, or will this be the start of
something for both her and Aspen?
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Excerpt One:
“You’re still in that band, right? Urban Skin?”
Tamsin raised an eyebrow, surprised that he had remembered. She rarely discussed her work when at the club.
She had been the lead singer of Urban Skin for the past two years. Initially having their origins as an all-woman rock band, in recent months they had been working on a poppier sound, mostly at the instigation of their lead guitarist, Jil, who thought they would be more successful that way. Tamsin hadn’t been keen, but she had ultimately decided that success in any form was better than spending night after night playing rough pubs where nobody was interested in anything more than drink and fighting.
That had been the plan, anyway.
Instead it had turned out to be an exercise in frustration. Tamsin had been the primary songwriter for their rock tracks, but Jil had taken over for the pop songs, leaving Tamsin with little to do except play music she didn’t particularly like. And the release of their first new single Blink had been underwhelming, to put it mildly, despite constantly pushing it on social media. It hadn’t charted—it had barely registered.
But Jil was insisting it would work. And it wasn’t as though their rock music had lit up the charts either. Their drummer, Lucy, and bassist, Roxie, had gone along without complaint, so Tamsin had too, but God, it made her grind her teeth sometimes.
“Yeah, why?”
“You might want to have a chat with that guy over there.” Ryan gestured discreetly towards the other end of the room. “Do you know who he is?”
Tamsin looked at where he had indicated.
It was the blond man. He was at the bar, again nursing a glass of whisky.
“I’ve never seen him before.”
“You’ve heard of him, I guarantee it. That’s Aspen LaRoche.”
“Aspen LaRoche?” Tamsin kept her voice light and mildly curious, even as sparks started flying in her stomach.
Oh, she had heard of Aspen LaRoche. Everyone had heard of Aspen LaRoche. The lead singer of the rock band Vegas Dreams, who had recently branched out into record production after the success of their fifteenth album. He had been on the cover of every music magazine she had heard of, blue eyes coolly gazing back at the camera as journalists everywhere raved about his songwriting, his guitar playing, his stage presence.
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Review: “Outside its walls, she was Tamsin Keller. Within its walls, she was Lady Night.”
In this book, we enter a world of BDSM. What do you do when the start you’ve been crushing is also into it?
For me, this story was rather slow and pretty mild. The writing was pretty good and the characters were okay. For a short novelette, the narrative was quite slow. I guess it was a good thing that what the characters had in common was the BDSM stuff, but there was really no real connection beyond that.
Overall, this was a fair read.
Rating: 3 stars
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
I first started writing seriously when my tutor on a creative writing course pointed me towards the Romantic Novelists' Association and their New Writers' Scheme. Thanks to them, my debut novel "The Hand He Dealt" was accepted by Total-e-Bound in 2011 and was nominated for the Joan Hessayon Award for 2012. I haven't stopped writing since.
My new novella in the Rock My World series, "Hyperventilating", will be out on 21st June 2022 and the second in the series, "The Start of Something", will be out on 27th December 2022.
When I'm not writing, I love to read historical fiction and non-fiction as well as anything paranormal. I love to sing, watch horror movies and go to rock concerts. I also have two cats who like to hide all day and then destroy the house at night.
www.facebook.com/TanithDavenport
www.twitter.com/TanithDavenport
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