Blurb:
In the second novel in bestselling author Caisey Quinn’s Neon Dreams series, a country rock band and its members embark on the rocky road to fame and find love along the way.
Dallas Lark is so close to achieving his dream of making it big in country music that he can taste it. Arriving in Nashville after signing with sexy, successful manager Mandy Lantram, his life goes from tragedy and turmoil to one lucky break after another—except it isn’t really luck because Dallas has sacrificed everything for his career, leaving behind his band, sister, best friend, and high school sweetheart, Robyn, in the pursuit of fame.
Robyn Breeland is a successful marketing coordinator and promotions specialist for a thriving liquor distributor out of Texas. She loves every aspect of her job: coming up with new ideas, traveling, hosting promotional parties and exclusive events—until it brings her face-to-face with the man who broke her heart, prompting her to erect a steel cage around it.
When their paths collide and they’re forced to work together, Dallas and Robyn realize that the old spark they thought they’d extinguished might still be a burning flame.
Dallas Lark is so close to achieving his dream of making it big in country music that he can taste it. Arriving in Nashville after signing with sexy, successful manager Mandy Lantram, his life goes from tragedy and turmoil to one lucky break after another—except it isn’t really luck because Dallas has sacrificed everything for his career, leaving behind his band, sister, best friend, and high school sweetheart, Robyn, in the pursuit of fame.
Robyn Breeland is a successful marketing coordinator and promotions specialist for a thriving liquor distributor out of Texas. She loves every aspect of her job: coming up with new ideas, traveling, hosting promotional parties and exclusive events—until it brings her face-to-face with the man who broke her heart, prompting her to erect a steel cage around it.
When their paths collide and they’re forced to work together, Dallas and Robyn realize that the old spark they thought they’d extinguished might still be a burning flame.
Excerpt
“Tell me what you’ve sacrificed. I want to
know,” Dallas says evenly, completely unfazed by my obvious psychotic break.
“Because I know a thing or two about sacrifice myself. But I can tell you this
much, I would never sacrifice my dignity and I sure as hell didn’t get where I
am on my back or by putting anyone else on theirs.”
What the hell?
“Excuse me?”
“Mandy. She’s my manager. Our relationship is
strictly professional, and it will stay that way, regardless of what her
intentions may or may not be.”
“Okay.” I don’t want to feel relieved. I
shouldn’t care. But my tightly wound nerves loosen a fraction.
“Your turn,” he informs me, folding his
muscular arms over his broad chest.
“My turn for what?”
“To tell me if you’re fucking Wade! If that’s
how you got on this tour, I want you to end it. He’s a grade A piece of shit
who doesn’t give a damn who he—”
Dallas doesn’t get to finish his sentence.
Because I slap him. Hard. So hard my hand is
still stinging.
Our faces must be matching masks of shock and I
see the replay in slow motion. I’ve never struck another human being in my
entire life. And I just slapped the only man I’ve ever loved with everything I
was worth.
“If you ever, ever, even think to
insinuate that I got where I am on my back, I swear to God, Dallas Lark, I will
make that seem like a love tap.”
I am so immensely infuriated that everything in
my line of sight is tinged in red. But more than that, I’m hurt. Hurt that
someone I once cared so much for, and still care about more than I’d like to
admit, would think that of me. Stitched-up lacerations on my heart that were on
their way to being pretty pink scars are opening wide and angry. He didn’t
invite me here for pancakes to catch up or spend time with me or figure out how
to work together or even attempt to make amends. Nope. He’s just jealous and
arrogant and a raging asshole.
“I didn’t mean to insinuate that—”
“Get the hell away from me.” I whirl around and
step right into a fresh puddle. Great. Wonderful.
“No,” Dallas says, pulling me toward him and
catching me off guard. “I need you to hear me out.”
“What’s to hear? You’re an arrogant ass and I
hate you.”
He gives me an infuriating smirk. “No you
don’t. If that were true, you wouldn’t be this pissed.”
I struggle to find a reasonable argument to
this so I say, “Fuck you, Dallas.”
“Yes, please. Come back to the hotel with me.
The car service is already here.” I yank out of his grasp, causing a painful
friction between our skin.
“Ouch.”
He pulls me to his chest and my anger is
fading, too diluted by his scent and his intensity.
“I’m sorry, baby. I’m so damn sorry,” is all he
says before kissing me brutally on the mouth. Mine pops open in shock when he
pulls back to breathe. His gaze presses into mine as my mind tumbles over
itself trying to process the abrupt turn of events. His thumb grazes my cheek
gently. “I never meant to hurt you,” he says before devouring me again.
And Lord help me, I don’t even know which thing
he’s apologizing for—the past or the present—because I’m melting. The rain, his
fiery hot mouth, his hands scorching a trail over my body. I’m drowning in
Dallas and I can’t stop.
Worse, I don’t even want to.
My Review
I do love a good second chance romance and Caisey
does not disappoint. I really loved Dallas in Leaving Amarillo, but I think I
fell even more when reading Loving Dallas. Being in his head will do that
though right?!
Dallas has always dreamed of making it big and
honestly the man does well in the spotlight, it was made for him. But chasing
his dreams always means leaving something behind. Last time he had to leave his
high school sweetheart behind. Now several years later it's his band he's
forced to leave back home. What he doesn't expect is someone from his past to
show up for the ride.
Robyn and Dallas called it quits years before
when he went chasing his dreams, but now she's working the tour that he just
got signed on to and their past and present collide and when they do it is HOT!
I have to admit there were a few times I was
upset with Robyn. I get her logic behind some of the choices she made, but that
doesn't mean I agreed with them. Dallas is a whole different story though.
Maybe i'm just a sucker for the hot musician though ;) Together these two light
up the pages. I could not put this book down and finished within a matter of
hours. Now I am itching for book 3 so I can see what happens with Dixie and
Gavin. We do get glimpses of them in this book but not enough to go on. Either
way this is another brilliant book by Caisey Quinn, not to mention the lyrics
in this book need to be on the radio!
5 stars!!!!!
What Caisey Quinn
Loves About Dallas
5. That he knows when to be a gentleman…and when not to be.
4. His tight jeans and cocky, country book swagger.
3. His sweet smile.
2. His singing voice.
1. How deeply he loves. <3
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