She wasn’t blotto, as most people would be after they’d imbibed as much as Lace had. I stopped watching Bianca head to the crowded dancefloor and looked to Lacey, our other friend, who had two bikers on her hook-both standing close, fencing her in at her stool at our table, taking turns buying her drinks, this having been going on for over an hour.

This meaning she’d be doing it on the back of a bike likely sometime tomorrow morning. After three days at a local dude ranch, she was ready for a switch-up from cowboy to biker.Īnd the tall, angular biker who seemed determined to dance to “867-5309/Jenny” with Bianca was worth the not-so-coded message that we were on our own for the rest of the night and she’d fend for herself to get back to the ranch. She had that glint in her eyes as she whispered this to me and Lacey before being led to the dancefloor by a biker. “I’m not sure I wanna be saved, just sayin’.” And to make things easier for you, these songs include Linda Ronstadt’s “When Will I Be Loved” and “It’s So Easy,” Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle,” The Goo Goo Dolls “Come to Me,” Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man,” Hozier’s “Work Song” and the Zac Brown Band’s “Free.” As I often suggest, and will do so again here, there will be scenes in this book that you’ll enjoy to the fullest if you listen to the songs they refer to while reading. Especially this one as Justice is a singer-songwriter and she speaks a great deal through the words she sings. Thank you, honey!įinally, as ever, I’d like to encourage readers to seek out and listen to the music I note in this novel. So he took my scary song that was supposed to say everything and made it into a thing of beauty. But my Mark, he’s got a poet’s soul and the talent to make words sing.

I decided I was going to descend into the art of writing lyrics and we’ll just say I didn’t succeed all that well. I hope you’ll agree.Īnd much heartfelt thanks to Mark Ashley. Many thanks to my girl Stephanie Redman Smith for a lot of reasons, but as pertains to this book, moons ago she sent me a link to Hozier’s “Work Song.” Upon listening, I knew that song needed to be in a book. This book is also dedicated to the living spirit of Kara Bombardier. “All I want for you, my son, is to be satisfied.”Īnd to his family who I hold deep in my heart. This book is dedicated to the memory of Greg Bullard.Ī good friend. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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Lady Luck by Kristen Ashley