Good Girl Mia feels guilty for her brother’s death. It was her kidney that killed him after all…
Four years later, Mia is back home after college and trying to pretend that she’s got it all together. She’s set to take over the family car dealership, and is determined to never make her mama cry again, but she’s also running from guilt and a boy who never really loved her.
Derek Waters has just signed with a record label and is determined to spend his summer touring with his band far away from his alcoholic dad and the whole L.A. scene. Dealing with anyone of the female persuasion is the last thing on his mind.
But then the sexy musician walks into Mia’s dealership, and they both find themselves throwing their best laid plans aside. Which leaves Mia wondering how she’ll survive the guilt of touring with this tattooed rocker in her dead brother’s Camaro. And what will become of Good Girl Mia when Derek Waters is done with her?
From award winning author, LJ Evans, comes the second novel in the my life as an album series. This book is about surviving sibling loss, overcoming guilt, and finding a path to love and redemption.
Derek loves his Little Bird…
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My Little Bird,
It’s Valentine’s Day, but it’s too early to wake my morning hating Miss Mia up. So, I’m going to write you a letter instead because I know that you love words almost as much as you love me. If I was home, I’d be able to kiss you in exchange for that eye-roll you just did. And I’m sure that would lead to us not leaving our bed at all. With my skin on your skin. With my lips touching your lips.
But damn, I won’t be here… so I’m left with words instead of hands to touch you.
I never gave a shit about Valentine’s Day with all the fucked-up relationships I saw. But once you entered my life with that ridiculous pant suit and those mosaic eyes, all I could think about was showing you every day how beautiful you were. How loved you were. And suddenly Valentine’s Day is especially important to me because you’ve never had anyone do all the romantic movie-like Valentine things for you. You’ve never had flowers and enormous stuffed bears and candy delivered to you. You’ve never had anyone shower you with wine and roses and lingerie. It makes me want to pound someone that you haven’t had those things before, but it also allows me to be the first and the last to do it for you.
So, I’m going to do all of those things for you tonight. When I get home. But, right now, I’m going to tell you with words what you mean to me. I want to make sure that you know these two things.
One, that you are so beautiful it hurts,
and two, that you are my entire world.
The words from our song, the one my manager wouldn’t let me call the Wooly Bisson, puts it another way. We are silky caresses, we are fireflies of light, we are all the magic come to life. You have claimed me, you’ve marked me, you’ve carefully broken me. You’ve torn apart my calloused heart and left only the romantic part.
You are my magic come to life, Little Bird. You are inside me now. I am only whole when you are with me. When you have your soft fingers entwined with my rough ones. When you touch my cleft and smile that God damn heart-breaking smile. When you kiss me like I am the only person in your life.
I don’t know how Jake loved Cam. I do know that you think their love was the only one to be made in heaven and sent down to this earth as pieces meant to find each other. But, you’re wrong. Our love. Our love was also made in the stars. Our realities are meant to be twined together like the vines of the passion flower.
And tonight, I hope to show you, one more time, that you are the first, the last, the only part of me that matters.
With all the love I am capable of,
Your moron,
Derek
Award-winning author, LJ Evans, is known for binge reading, binge watching, and binge writing. She is routinely inspired by music and will pull over the car to write a book scene when a particular song strikes her imagination. Her my life as an album series debuted in 2017 and won The Independent Author Network’s Young Adult Book of the Year. The second in the series, my life as a pop album, released in January. By day she’s a 1st grade teacher in a public school in the California Central Valley. By night, she’s a wife, mother, and pillow for the 3 terrors known as cats.
TY so much for including this in your February Romance & Love Letters!