STONED by Mandi Beck: Book Tour, Excerpt, Giveaway & Mary’s Review – Delish, Devine and All Mine…. one book boyfriend at a time.

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Come get Wrecked with Stone and Willow in this second chance Rock Star Romance!

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Blurb

“A rock star with no rhythm is a man with no soul.” – Stone Lockhart

As the lead singer of one of the hottest bands to hit the rock scene, fucks are free, drugs come easy, and music is life.
For as long as Stone can remember, Willow has been his music – the notes that weave his soul together.
His rhythm.
Until he threw her away.
All he has left is a handful of pills and a few lines of powder to make him forget her.
And he tries, over and over.

Clean and ready to make things right, he’s faced with the fact that Willow’s moved on. She’s not the same girl he cast aside. Willow’s a woman sure about her purpose in life. Sure about who she’s meant to love.
Stone may be lost without his rhythm, but Willow has found so much more.

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Excerpt

Willow isn’t a performer. She’s too honest and pure for that. She plays and sings with her heart. If she’s mad, she sings angry shit. Happy, she smiles throughout the whole damn song making you smile too. But I know the moment I hear the chords of “Over,” this set she’s working on is all me. She can’t see me in the corner here, but she sings for me nonetheless, and I feel every fucking word. Every last note as she pours her heart out. This is a Willow that was always reserved for me. She never wanted to be in the spotlight. We begged her to be in the band and not just help write the music, but she said no, over and over. But when it was just her and I, this was the Birdie I got. We would play for each other for hours, late into the night, sometimes it would lead to us fucking, and other times it was because we had just finished, our bodies sated, but our souls still full of passion and adrenaline. A naked Wills wearing nothing but a guitar is the most beautiful fucking sight in the world and just thinking about it now makes me hard.

“Stone? Babe? Wake up, I can’t sleep.” I can hear her but can’t make my eyes open to see her. The bed shifts and then dips. Willow straddling my lap has my eyes opening slowly, blinking the sleep away. I suck in a breath when I can finally focus. My beautiful Birdie is sitting astride me, completely naked except for her brand new custom Martin. Her fingers lovingly stroking over the fret board. “I wrote you a new song,” she whispers excitedly. Peering up at her, I can see the excitement on her face, the love in her whiskey-colored eyes. As she starts playing I shift. My bottom lip clamped between my teeth I gently tug the sheet lower down my legs inconspicuously. She begins singing and I feel a lightness wash over me. Her words like a balm on my now overly heated skin. Every time she opens her mouth, beauty pours from it, and I have the urge to fill her. Fill her any way that I can so that I can touch that music. Be her music the way she’s mine. Entranced, I watch as Willow falls into her zone, eyes closed, face intense in its peacefulness. As she hits the bridge, her voice raising an octave, I slip inside her. Pussy wet, always so wet when she gets like this, I thrust. Her eyes don’t open, but she softens, all of her relaxing into me. When I begin rocking back and forth, slowly, rhythmically in sync with the chords she plays, she falters for a beat. Gradually her eyes open, landing on mine just long enough for me to see all the love from moments ago turned to lust and a deep, needy want. She’s close. Thank fuck.
Careful to not bump the guitar, I slide my thumb to her clit and play her, same as she plays her Martin. Silently we make music together as her song envelopes us, breathier than before. I join in on the chorus, my raspy voice melding with hers as I fuck her, pushing us both over the edge.
Blissed out and with hands on her thighs, I smile wickedly, “Sing it for me again, Wills.”

I’m brought from my thoughts when Law elbows me. “Where’d you go, bro? You okay?” he whispers just as the song finishes and she takes a moment to sip from her mug. I’d bet money it was tea. She always drank tea to soothe her throat when she was serious about a session or we had a lot to work out in the studio.
“Yeah, man. Just thinking about Wills.” Shrugging sheepishly, I glance over at him before letting my gaze settle back on Willow. “I haven’t had to share her like this in forever, not even with you guys really. Not like this.” My voice is pitched low so that it doesn’t travel. “It’s fucking with my head a little. There’s never been a time that she wasn’t mine and that music wasn’t ours. Ya know?”

MARY’s 5 STAR REVIEW

HOLY FREAKIN WOW!

Stoned just totally blew me away! There was nothing about this book that I didn’t just flippin love. Mandi Beck has done one hell of a job writing one of the most powerful, gut wrenching, stories of addition and healing that I have ever read. A second chance story with a whole lot of twisty turns. It touched my heart on so many levels. I don’t think that I will ever not hold it near and dear to my heart.

Stone Lockhart is the lead singer of a super-hot rock band, Wrecked. Living his dream success, touring, money and his girl Willow at his side …. you would think that he was at the top of the world. But the truth is Stone had a real problem with drugs. Succumbing to the lure of a high Stone he was falling deeper and deeper into the abyss. Too much drugs, booze and women.

Willow was Stone’s soulmate, his lifeline. They made music together both literally and metaphorically. The chemistry between them white hot. Willow was also a musician. She wrote music for Stone and the band. Where Stone loved to preform Willow never wanted the limelight. Tired of Stone losing it with her, dismissing her feelings, she was done. Telling Stone she’d had enough, she left him.

Out of control and spiraling toward rock bottom Stone threw the love of his life away. It wasn’t until he came home to an empty house and found Willow had really left him. Alone and lost without her, he didn’t have much lower to go. That was until he woke up in the hospital recovering from an OD. Now he had not only let his Willow down but his bandmates as well. With two options left jail time or rehab the choice was pretty obvious.

Rehab was hard for Stone. He was agitated, uneasy and at time still in denial of his need to be there. Yet it was also what he needed for the epiphany to see what he had done. Not only that but to realize the work ahead for him to get his Wills back.

While Stone was no longer the hooked on drugs, Willow was no longer the woman she had been when she left Stone. She had moved forward without Stone. She had a new home, new friends and also a new man in her life when Stone found her. She was a lot stronger and would never put up with the BS from Stone either. Now clean, Stone was more than determined to get his Willow back.

Would Stone he be able to win her heart back?

Could Willow ever be able to trust Stone again?

While Stoned is a work of fiction you can’t help but feel the pain of addiction and the destruction it creates in a relationship. The sobriety of being clean and free of drugs. The clarity of knowing what your heart needs. There is so much more to this book than just dealing with addiction. It’s a book about redemption, patience, and a hell of a lot of determination. But it’s also about forgiveness and finding that spark that once set your world on fire.

After all, ….
Love’s not supposed to be easy.