Before the Final Encore E-Book

Scotty Cade

• Herausgeber: Dreamspinner Press
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 40

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Prequel to Final Encore Tires flying over the interstate, college student Ian Dillon can't get out of Greenville, SC quickly enough. As he watches his entire life fading away in his rearview mirror, his thoughts are only of his lover, Todd, and the memories of their time together, now completely shattered by Todd's incomprehensible betrayal. His mind still reeling, Ian drives through the night until a split second decision guides him to Nashville, Tennessee. Everything will be better there. It has to be!

Leseprobe

Foreword

WHENIfinished my first novel,Final Encore, a little over four years ago, I always felt like I left a little part of the story out, but I really couldn’t put my finger on what I’d omitted or what was missing. But then one day it hit me.

Final Encore opens with Billy Eagan and his journey from New Orleans to Nashville as he chases his dream of a career in country music, but when Ian Dillon enters the story, he is already established in Nashville with an excellent career as a talent scout for a major record label. But as we find out in Final Encore, Ian is also an emotionally damaged man. He is distrusting and closed off to the possibility of any type of a relationship. And… with damn good reason, I must admit.

But how did Ian get to Nashville in the first place? It certainly wasn’t because he had career aspirations in the country music business. Before the Final Encore tells of the very early part of Ian’s journey and how events in his life took him from a successful college career at Bob Jones University in South Carolina to the Nashville music scene.

For those of you who have already read Final Encore, I hope this free read will give you a little more insight into Ian Dillon and what events in his life made him the man he is. And for those who haven’t read Final Encore, I hope it will inspire you to read about Ian and Billy and their struggles to build a life together.

Final Encore is my first novel, and this story will always be near and dear to my heart.

But… by the time you are reading this, we will be well into rereleasing a second edition, complete with added and reworked scenes. And then following the rerelease of Final Encore, you will see one more book finishing out the series, called After the Final Encore.

I hope you enjoy!

Scotty

Before the Final Encore

IANDILLONdrove like a bat out of hell through the foggy and rainy South Carolina night, heading for the quickest route out of Greenville. As he barreled down Interstate 385, he kept his fingers wrapped tightly around the steering wheel as if it were the last thing he had to actually hold on to. He pulled onto the entrance ramp to Interstate 85 not caring if he was going north or south, just knowing he needed to get as far away as possible from the memories that were assaulting him, threatening his very existence.

As he blinked back the welling up in his eyes, he watched Greenville disappear in his rearview mirror and wondered how he was ever going to erase the last two years of his life. He was just twenty years old, but so many emotions were flooding his mind—anger, love, resentment, but most of all, betrayal. He suddenly realized that from this point forward, the pain he was feeling would forever be associated with being in love. He vowed right then and there never to expose himself to the possibly of such despair again.

In an attempt to fight off an impending panic attack, Ian pulled into the passing lane, stomped the accelerator, and sped past a delivery truck. In his mind, the faster he drove, the faster he could get away from his bigoted parents and Todd Slocum, the man who had broken him so completely he would never feel whole or be the same again. As he barreled down the highway with no real destination in mind, he had no idea how he was ever going to get over the scorching pain caused by the man who had vowed to protect and love him forever. So he just drove on.

DING. IAN recognized the simple sound and slowly came out of his emotional fog. He glanced at the fuel gauge; it was quickly approaching the empty mark. Dawn was breaking ahead, and the sun was just starting to peek above the pine-tree-lined highway to his right. My God,I must have driven through the night, and I guess I’m going north.

Ian shifted in his seat. He was very thirsty, but more importantly, he needed to pee. As he approached the next off-ramp, the green highway road sign ahead announced Interstate 40 West, Two Miles. He knew Interstate 40 led to Nashville and thought, Why not. Without hesitation Ian hit the gas pedal and headed to Tennessee.

After merging onto I-40, he took the first exit and stopped for gas. Once he had relieved himself, he filled his truck and bought an energy drink.