Hi, lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Skye
Warren and her new book, “Audition”!
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Audition
by Skye Warren
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
Blood
and sweat. Bethany Lewis danced her way out of poverty. She’s a world class
athlete… with a debt to pay.
Joshua
North always gets what he wants. And the mercenary wants Bethany in his bed. He
wants her beautiful little body bent to his will.
She
doesn’t surrender to his kiss.
He
doesn’t back down from a challenge.
It’s
going to be a sensual fight… to the death.
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EXCERPT ONE:
Blinding
lights. Aching lungs. Thunderous applause. The final show concludes the same
way we rehearsed for months, the same way we performed for weeks. My muscles
know the movements better than they understand rest. The prospect of after, of
what comes next, makes my breath catch. Even as the primas take their bows,
relief echoes around the stage. Vacations are planned. Relief for strained
muscles. Everyone needs a break, even professional athletes. I’m the only one
onstage dreading it.
We
bow and curtesy with practiced grace. The curtain descends to the floor. Almost
to the second we break formation—a flock of crows startled from the woods. The
more exuberant among us, the young ones, the new ones, the ones using steroids,
prance and jete toward the dressing rooms. Most of us limp our way out. One
hundred percent of NFL players are injured every season. Professional dancing
is the same. We hurl our bodies through the air, forcing massive impact through
tired joints night after night. I catch my friend Marlena in my arms. Her face
is white with pain.
“Ice,”
she says. “Or better yet—tequila.”
I
push my shoulder under hers as we exit the stage. “Don’t sell yourself short.
You can have both.”
A
delicate snort. “Not likely. We have to smile and flirt with the old men with
big, fat wallets. And for what? I won’t be here next season. You won’t be,
either.”
The
reminder clangs inside me like a copper bell. I won’t be coming to the New York
City Ballet after the break. We fall into our creaky chairs in the dressing
room. “Are you going to miss it?”
“Miss
it? Of course I’ll miss it.” Marlena turned twenty-eight last month. It’s
comfortably retirement age for a dancer. “When the little children do their
terrible pirouettes, when they sneeze and throw up and cry all over my leotard,
I’ll think fondly of the beautiful art I left behind. Then I’ll be able to walk
home. That won’t happen if I try to dance another season.”
“You’ll
make a wonderful teacher. You know you were mine.” She didn’t teach me to
dance. It was my first love, before I learned to flip and contort myself.
Before I ever leapt from a trapeze bar.
Marlena
taught me the ropes of the ballet company when I joined two years ago. Most of
them thought I wouldn’t last a week. Some of them didn’t want me to. It’s a
rigid world, the hierarchy stacked with graduates of Juilliard or the John
Cranko school.
I
don’t have a pedigree.
All
I have is a body that does what it must, no matter how much it hurts.
Which
means changing out of my sweaty leotard into a fresh one. We’re contractually
obligated to attend the ball. Like Marlena said, we should smile and flirt with
the high society people who attend. Both the male and female dancers have to do
it. It’s what convinces the sponsors to write checks that will fund the next
season. By the time they’re rehearsing The Nutcracker I’ll be in New Orleans,
the place I swore I’d never return.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Skye Warren is the
New York Times bestselling author of dangerous romance. Her books have sold
over one million copies. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family,
sweet dogs, and evil cat.
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