Synopsis:
With Ruby Riot on a break, Will Campbell, Ruby Riot bassist, returns to university to finish his degree and fails badly at everything apart from partying. He needs major help if he wants to pass his final year and attempts to join a not-very-rock star study group. Will is horrified to discover the person organizing the group is Fleur Roberts, the girl he's secretly crushed on for two years and who recently threatened him with a restraining order.
Fleur's rock stars are history academics. She has no interest in any variety of pierced, tattooed slacker, especially not the jackass rock star who humiliated her at a party. There's no way in hell that Will Campbell is joining her group.
Faced with losing the easiest way to fix his academic problems, Will has the perfect solution: pretend he's his twin, Nate. Will and Nate have swapped identities before so nothing can go wrong. Surely.
Fleur is successful academically, but her love life is a failure. Following a number of disastrous dates, she finds herself falling in love with a guy who is lying to her. But Will's deceit isn't the only thing about to shatter her world. When another man Fleur trusted betrays her, and she attempts to retaliate, Fleur discovers how dangerous he is. And when Will becomes involved, the repercussions threaten both of their futures.
(every ‘Nate’ who is in the
excerpts with Fleur is Will)
The door opens and I glance
up, annoyed at the interruption. A tall guy stands in the doorway. If it wasn’t
obvious who he is, the Ruby Riot t-shirt stretched across his muscled chest is
a giveaway. A half-smile plays across his mouth, one I remember from a couple
of weeks ago. The guy pushes long fingers through his dark, spiked fringe as he
looks over.
Nate Campbell. Or Will.
Whoever he is, this is one
of the big-headed rock star twins. I don’t care which, because after Will’s
behaviour at the party I don't want to see either. He can get the hell out. I
wait for the guy to close the door and walk away. He doesn’t.
“Yes?” I ask.
“This the history group?”
“Correct.”
“Cool.” He drags a spare chair
from the corner of the room to the table.
“What are you doing?”
“Joining your group. To
study.” Without waiting for an invitation, he sits and folds his tattooed arms
on the desk. “That okay?”
“Depends. Which twin are
you? Will or Nate?”
The guy studies me, and I
return his scrutiny, looking for a sign of guilt or embarrassment over his
treatment of me at the party. If there’s any chance at all that this is Will,
he can bloody leave.
“I think you know the answer to that. You were both there.” There’s no sign on his face of guilt,
either this is Nate or Will’s too arrogant to care.
The
guy ignores the response. “Is it because I have to ask nicely?” He clears his
throat. “Please may I join your study group?”
Nita
giggles and I glance at her. Great, she’s wide-eyed and silly because a
Campbell is in the room with us. Steph looks less impressed, but Sam joins Nita
in his interest.
“Why
are you back at uni, man? Thought you guys made it big.”
Possibly-Nate-maybe-Will
shrugs. “Want to finish my degree. Back-up plan and all that.”
“And
you want to join us?” I ask, not wanting to waste time on his life story.
“Is
that a problem?” asks Nita.
“I
suppose not.”
“Welcome,”
says Sam.
I
glower at Sam; but despite my delusions, I’m not in charge here.
Lisa is an Amazon bestselling author of contemporary and paranormal romance. She is originally from the UK and moved to Australia in 2001. She now lives in Perth, Western Australia with her husband, three children, and Weimaraner, Tilly, who often makes appearances on Lisa’s social media.
Lisa’s first publication was a moving poem about the rain, followed by a suspenseful story about shoes. Following these successes at nine years old there was a long gap in her writing career, until she published her first book in 2013.
In the past, Lisa worked as an English teacher in France, as an advertising copywriter in England, and ran her own business in Australia. Now she spends her days with imaginary rock stars.She lived in Europe as a child and also travelled when she left university. This has given Lisa stories which would sound far-fetched if she wrote them down, and maybe one day she will. These days, Lisa is happy in her writing cave, under Tilly’s supervision.
