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Rockstar\u00a0 |\u00a0 15-Year Age Gap\u00a0 |\u00a0 Small Town\u00a0 |\u00a0 <\/strong>Found Family\u00a0 |\u00a0 Slow Burn\u00a0 |\u00a0 Forbidden<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n From\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE novel\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n No one but me knew why I was actually in the California desert that day. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Add to Goodreads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Penelope Ward<\/strong>\u00a0is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance.<\/p>\n She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism.<\/p>\n With over two million books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over thirty novels. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0TWITTER<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0INSTAGRAM<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0GOODREADS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0FB FAN GROUP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Rocker’s Muse by Penelope Ward is live! Rockstar\u00a0 |\u00a0 15-Year Age Gap\u00a0 |\u00a0 Small Town\u00a0 |\u00a0 Found Family\u00a0 |\u00a0 Slow Burn\u00a0 |\u00a0 Forbidden Amazon US\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon UK\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon CA\u00a0 |\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[132,634],"class_list":["post-76107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-news","tag-penelope-ward","tag-release"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/The-Rockers-Muse.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gaNL-jNx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Amazon US\u00a0 <\/a>|\u00a0 Amazon UK<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon CA<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon AU<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\nNestled deep within the desolate, rocky area was a recording studio.
\nWhen a door suddenly opened, a man mistook me for someone he was supposed to be interviewing for a job.
\nThe next thing I knew, I was whisked inside.
\nThe position? An assistant on the upcoming tour for one of America\u2019s most famous rock bands.
\nPretty exciting opportunity for a twenty-two-year-old, just out of college.
\nNot surprisingly, I bombed the interview.
\nWhen I ended up mistakenly walking into the men\u2019s room on my way out, I struck up a conversation with a stranger\u2014not realizing it was the lead singer, Tristan Daltrey.
\nHe seemed to like the fact that I had no idea who he was, that I saw him as a normal person.
\nThat night, I got a call offering me the job.
\nSo began my complicated story with Tristan.
\nMillions of women loved him.
\nYet for some reason, after the shows, he only wanted to hang out with me.
\nLate-night talks. Casual dinners in his hotel room.
\nI wasn\u2019t supposed to be fraternizing with the band\u2019s frontman.
\nDespite our fifteen-year age difference, Tristan and I had a connection.
\nBut\u00a0I<\/em>\u00a0had a secret.
\nOne that would eventually lead to my leaving the tour.
\nAnd one that would lead Tristan and the band straight to the small town where I came from.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/The-Rockers-Muse-Teaser-1.jpg?resize=485%2C485&ssl=1\")
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