Blue Steel Hearts

By Eve Lyn

Rock Star Steve Mitchem has it all. Fans adore him, and he beds any woman he wants. But he's never forgotten the small-town girl he left behind in Oklahoma. He can't believe his luck when he spots her one night in the front row of his concert. He takes her to his house in Malibu where things heat up quicker than his hot tub.

Julie Ray moved to Los Angeles to become a model. Her good looks landed her a few jobs, but she's spent more time working as a waitress just to pay the bills. When she attends a concert to see her old friend perform, she is surprised when he recognizes her. She'd do anything to bed her old flame, even if it means leaving her heart behind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
• Release date: Jul 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781509226160

Eve Lyn

Before fulfilling her dream of being a published Romance Writer, Jane Lewis worked as a free-lance musician and teacher, and an analyst and manager for a large railroad company. She is a native of Atlanta and lover of all things southern. She graduated from Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music. When she isn’t writing her next romance, she enjoys cooking, tending her rose garden, playing music, yoga and bowling with her real life hero, her husband. She and her husband live in a suburb outside of Atlanta. She is a PAN member of Romance Writers of America and Georgia Romance Writers. She was a 2016 finalist in the Hearts Through History, Post-Victorian/World War II category for her first romance novel, Love at Five Thousand Feet.

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Blue Steel Hearts

by

Eve Lyn

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

Blue Steel Hearts

COPYRIGHT © 2019 by Eve Lyn

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author or The Wild Rose Press, Inc. except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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Publishing History

First Scarlet Rose Edition, 2019

Digital ISBN 978-1-5092-2616-0

Published in the United States of America

Dedication

For my husband, my real-life hero.

Blue Steel Hearts

Los Angeles, California, 1968

Julie Ray floated down the long aisle. An usher stopped her, glanced at her ticket, and pointed toward the front. She couldn’t wait to see the one guy she’d loved since high school.

Anita, her best friend, trailed behind her. I can’t believe you won the radio contest.

She slowed, glanced around the indoor arena, and wondered how much nerve it took to perform in such a large space. Not many people know the name of the town Steve Mitchem grew up in, but I sure do.

I can’t believe you know him. Do you think he’ll remember you? Anita scanned the crowd, her face flushed with excitement.

Julie stared at the microphone stands, amps, guitars, drum set, and Hammond B3 organ filling the stage. I haven’t seen him in ten years, of course he doesn’t. The goodbye kiss he gave her that long-ago night on her front doorstep flitted through her brain. His lips lingered touching her mouth, like he didn’t want to let go. Her stomach fluttered at the memory and the prospect of seeing him again.

He took you to a movie the night before he left town. Anita waved to someone she spotted on the next level, held up her ticket, and pointed toward the front.

She inhaled a deep breath to steady her nerves. "One date eons ago. He left on the bus the next day for Los Angeles, and the rest