Title
– Between Despair and Ecstasy
Book
3 of the Two Hearts One Love Trilogy
Release
Date – October, 20, 2017
Publisher
– eXtasy Books
Author
– Daryl Devoré
Genre
– hot rock star romance
Blurb
Concerned
for his fiancée’s safety, rock star Darien Scott races to Bangkok to protect
Erika Bailey, only to discover his brother is missing. Fearing the worst, he
contacts his nemesis, Gan, and makes a repulsive deal that will free his
brother and protect Erika’s club, The Pink Flamingo. Or so he thinks. When a
python and Gan are involved, things go sour, and Darien sinks into a deep
depression.
Erika is disheartened by the betrayal of her
parents. Her father's destruction of her club and the humiliation of her
mother’s drunken behavior have her feeling down, but those are the least of her
worries. She has a wedding to plan, but won’t. Having been betrayed too often,
she’s scared to trust Darien.
How can Erika prove to herself and Darien that she
loves and trusts him? Simple. All she has to do is jump out of a plane.
Excerpt
Sweat
streamed off Darien’s brow. Some dripped into his eyes. It stung. His heart
throbbed against his ribs. Fire inched down his throat. Every muscle in his
body ached. His head pounded from the pandemonium. The explosions. The screams.
The pain threatening to split his skull. Dropping his head back, he closed his
eyes. His chest heaved as he gulped air. He needed a moment. Get some strength back.
The
screams grew louder.
Damn.
He inhaled
and released a long breath.
They
wanted him. He had to continue. To perform. Like a trained monkey. Do people even do that anymore? Train
monkeys? He peeled his eyes open. The glare of the overhead lights blazed
down at him. He lifted his head. The screams grew louder.
“Oh. So,
you want more?”
But what if I don’t have
any more? What if I just can’t continue? Twelve weeks. Four shows a week. I’m
beat.
The roar
from eighty thousand Parisians was tumultuous. Fans yelled at the top of their
lungs. They pounded their feet on the floor, raising their hands in the air,
clapping. Glow sticks, cell phones, and lighters swayed like flowers in a
breeze.
He
grinned. Eighty thousand Parisians and one fiancée. He glanced to his left.
Seated on the top stage step was Erika. She’d arrived just minutes before the
show started. Just enough time for a passionate—but quick—hello kiss. He needed
more. He needed her, and he knew it. She smiled at him. He loved that smile. He
could stare at it all day. The way her soft lips curved up, a hint of sassiness
in her expression.
Just finish the show. Grab
Erika and run. Dodge the fans. Just get out of here.
He looked
out over the crowd. “But what if I’m too tired to continue?”
“No,” the
crowd wailed.
He
grinned. “Well, maybe I could go on if you told me you loved me.”
The
cacophony of sounds was deafening. “Je
t’aime. Love you.”
He lifted
his hands. “Do you love me?”
“Oui. Yes.”
He ripped
his black t-shirt over his head and threw it into the fans. “Do. You. Love.
Me?” He yelled out as he glanced at Erika.
She jumped
up and down, screaming with the crowd.
“I can’t
hear you.”
The building
shook with the fans’ frenzy.
“Five.
Six. Five. Six. Seven. Eight.”
Fireworks
exploded. Lasers shot around the stadium. Cass, the drummer, crashed the
symbols as Darien spun, posed, then inhaled a deep breath and opened his mouth
to sing.
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Questions for Daryl Devoré
What inspired you to
write your first book?
My gr 10 Creative Writing teacher. We had to write a
chapter 1 and he told me to keep going instead of doing the other writing
projects. By the end of the semester I had finished it.
Do you have a
specific writing style?
I don't think so. I just write the story the way it
presents itself to me.
How did you come up with
the title?
I usually ask for help. I have some very creative
friends.
Can you share a
little of your current work with us?
The one I am writing on doesn't have a name yet. But the
next is a Christmas short and will be released in Dec and is called – Love in
the Key of C.
Tell us something you hate doing. Why?
DISHES!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm an only child so they was never a time I
could pawn the job off on a sibling.
Tell us something nobody knows about you.
If I
do, then everyone will know about it.
Have you ever jumped out of a plane?
Why
would anyone jump out of a perfectly good plane?
But
funny enough, in this book the heroine has to.
Do you use a pseudonym? If so how did you choose it?
Yes, actually I have two?
The one I made up, it just popped into my head and the other – I asked for help
from writer's group.
Bio
Daryl Devoré (@daryldevore) lives in an old farmhouse in Ontario, Canada,
with her husband, a black cat named Licorice and some house ghosts. Daryl loves
to take long walks up her quiet country road or snowshoe across the back acres,
and in the summer, kayak along the St. Lawrence River. She's touched a moon
rock, a mammoth and a meteorite. She's been deep in the ocean in a submarine, flown
high over Niagara Falls in a helicopter and used the ladies room in a royal
palace. Life's an adventure and Daryl's having fun living it.
Where to find Daryl Devoré
