Get Out of Here: A Rockstar Romance

By Tanith Davenport

FROM POPULAR ROMANCE AUTHOR TANITH DAVENPORT

Book five in the Rock My World series

She ran away from her life— straight into his arms.

Photography graduate Starla Brower has always regretted not running away from her abusive home when she had the chance, as her older sisters did— especially her sister Electra, who fled with band Torque Converter six months ago. So when she decides to hitchhike away, she' s shocked to find Electra has arranged for the band to pick her up. And when lead singer Valen Lesellane rescues her from a gang of thugs by announcing she' s his fiancé e, Starla goes along with it. Why not?

The band' s manager, Mike, is furious at this turn of events and the press attention it receives, but Starla finds Valen' s impulsiveness to be infectious and his touch to be irresistible. Before long she has regained contact with her other sisters and finds herself finally able to be happy, both with Valen and with her family.

But with her parents pursuing her and Mike fiercely against her relationship with Valen, can their unexpected engagement last beyond the bus tour?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
• Release date: May 14, 2024
• ISBN: 9781802509007

Tanith Davenport

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 Totally Bound in 2011 and was nominated for the Joan Hessayon Award for 2012. I haven't stopped writing since. Last year my short "Spiritwalker" was released as part of the "Some Like It Haunted" collection by Totally Bound. This year I'm working on two new shorts plus the upcoming release of my back collection as audiobooks. 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.

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Totally Bound Publishing books by Tanith Davenport

Single Books

The Hand He Dealt

Sleepwalker

Tamar Rising

In the Halls of the Mountain Troll

Echoes of Love

Ready for Him

Rock My World

Hyperventilating

The Start of Something

I’m with the Band

Making it Hard

What’s Her Secret?

Photograph

Collections

Haunted by You: I Heard Your Voice

Some Like it Haunted: Spiritwalker

Clandestine Classics

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Rock My World

GET OUT OF HERE

TANITH DAVENPORT

Get Out of Here

ISBN # 978-1-80250-900-7

©Copyright Tanith Davenport 2024

Cover Art by Kelly Martin ©Copyright May 2024

Interior text design by Claire Siemaszkiewicz

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GET OUT OF HERE

Book five in the Rock My World series

She ran away from her life—straight into his arms.

Photography graduate Starla Brower has always regretted not running away from her abusive home when she had the chance, as her older sisters did—especially her sister Electra, who fled with band Torque Converter six months ago. So when she decides to hitchhike away, she’s shocked to find Electra has arranged for the band to pick her up. And when lead singer Valen Lesellane rescues her from a gang of thugs by announcing she’s his fiancée, Starla goes along with it. Why not?

The band’s manager, Mike, is furious at this turn of events and the press attention it receives, but Starla finds Valen’s impulsiveness to be infectious and his touch to be irresistible. Before long she has regained contact with her other sisters and finds herself finally able to be happy, both with Valen and with her family.

But with her parents pursuing her and Mike fiercely against her relationship with Valen, can their unexpected engagement last beyond the bus tour?

Dedication

To Dash and Spot, my two tuxedo cats, who love to sit by me as I write.

Trademark Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:

KFC: KFC Corporation

Twitter: Twitter, Inc.

H. Samuel: Signet Jewelers

Facebook: Meta Platforms, Inc

Facebook Messenger: Meta Platforms, Inc

Zoom: Zoom Video Communications, Inc

Tube: London Underground

Boots: Walgreens Boots Alliance

Brixton Academy: Academy Music Group

Photoshop: Adobe Inc.

Prologue

Looking back, she knew she should have left.

After all, leaving was what they did. Her sisters had all left—why hadn’t she?

Fear?

A desire to finish her studies first?

Maybe.

But as Starla Brower had arrived home that night, the passenger seat uncomfortably empty, it had been the one thing on her mind.

I should have gone too.

* * * *

She hadn’t even got his name.

The band had been amazing. Starla’s sister Electra had got the tickets on a cheap, last-minute deal. She’d crept into Starla’s room and whispered in her ear, her blonde highlights glowing under the light, grey eyes alight with glee.

"Come on. I’ve got tickets to see Torque Converter. I’ve heard they’re great."

Starla had needed no persuading. God knew she needed no excuse to get out of their parents’ house. At twenty-one, she could have moved out already if she hadn’t been almost finished with her degree course. Just six months to go and she could get out of there.

But until then she’d had to put up with the screaming arguments every night, her father throwing things at the wall, at her mother, at Electra or at her.

No wonder her older sisters, Daisy and Juno, had already left.

She should have known what would happen when they went backstage after the show. She still couldn’t remember how Electra had talked her way past the roadie, but somehow there they had been, Electra having disappeared with one of the band members and Starla locked in an embrace with…him.

Though she hadn’t got his name, she could remember him perfectly. Tall. Slim. His hair a loose mop of brown curls, his eyes a warm brown. And his energy. On stage he had been frenetic, bounding from space to space, thrusting his hips at the microphone stand, holding the audience in the palm of his hand.

They hadn’t had sex, but his kisses had been…unforgettable. The glide of his tongue against hers. The press of his firm body, the nudge of his cock through his jeans.

She might even have gone further if the manager hadn’t come in and ordered everybody out.

Could she have stayed? As she’d been leaving, she’d turned to see Electra flapping a hand towards her. At the time, she had thought it meant go, but looking back, it could have meant wait.

It hadn’t been until she pulled into the drive that the text from Electra had lit up her phone.

I’m going with the band. Stay in touch. I’ll come back for you.

Leaving was what they all did.

And looking back, Starla knew.

I should have left with them.

I should have got out of here.

Chapter One

Six months later

As she crossed the car park of the motorway service station, Starla’s attention was drawn by the enormous double-decker coach parked in one of the longer spaces