When Harvard Law student, Dylan Ackhart, moves to Boston
with her best friend- the last thing she expects to find is Jeremy Mason.
Jeremy is sexy, smart, and passionate- and currently the most famous rock star
in the world.
From the first moment Dylan meets Jeremy, she's
attracted to him. But she soon finds the fame and press can wear on you. Plus,
Jeremy seems to be hiding things from her- including his relationship with the
mysterious blue-haired girl.
Tracks takes you on a ride through the not so glamorous
side of dating a rock star- sex, drugs, rock and roll.
TRACKS by Sarah Biermann
I make a disgusted sound in my throat. “I am
totally fucked up by what my mother did to me,” I say, still aghast at his
reaction to my story.
“Fucked up?” he questions,
confused. “Why? Because you’re shy? Because you’re private? Because you don’t
like to be vulnerable? Because you strive to achieve great things to prove
you’re good enough to be worth something?”
The way he instantly knows
me makes me very uncomfortable. I freeze, wide eyed and unable to speak for a
moment. How could he see me so clearly? How did this connection between us go
so deeply? It was disturbing to me, the understanding between us. It’s deeper
than even the physical pull between us, as if the air that separates our bodies
is electrically charged. I had worked my whole life to push people away,
building up this wall of protection. And yet here is this man, tearing it down
and seeing who I am through all the bullshit. Maybe I'm not as good at hiding
myself as I thought.
“Yeah,” I finally muttered.
“Those reasons are pretty much why.”
“It makes you beautiful.
The things you say it created in you... are what attract me to you in this
unbelievable way. You’re timid, shy, brilliant, and completely unaware of how
amazing you are.”
I go statue still. My heart
feels like it’s going to explode at his words. How did our conversation change
course so quickly? I don’t know if I’m prepared for this. “Amazing?” I repeat
in disbelief.
He smiles a catlike smile,
like he’s hunting again. Immediately, my breathing increases. “Oh yes. When I
first saw your eyes from the stage,” he leans closer to me. I want to both back
away and lean toward him at the same time. “I wanted to make them roll back
into your head. I wanted to grab your round hips and pull you close to me.” He
crouches on the couch, one leg on and one leg off, leaning over me. With his
face against my cheek again, he whispers in my ear, “You. Are. Breathtaking.”
"They think Jeremy murdered her."
Drugs pushed them away...will murder bring them together?
Since losing the rock star love of her life, Harvard Law student Dylan Ackhart is doing the best she can to move on. Now in her third and final year, she's doing well in school and just landed her dream internship in Boston's District Attorney's office. She keeps away from the news so she doesn't hear about Jeremy Mason- about his frequent parties, new women, and apparent drug use.
But when the body of a young girl is found in his home, suddenly Dylan and Jeremy are thrust together in the most difficult and awkward of circumstances. Dylan is forced to choose between the only man she ever loved and the only dream she ever wanted. Will she leave everything behind and be with Jeremy? Or will Jeremy find himself in more trouble than she can help him out of?
TRIALS by Sarah Biermann
I finally reach his big, wooden door at the top of the steps.
With my heart pounding, I reach quickly for the doorknob. I’m planning to just
bust my way in there. But when I lay my hand on the knob, I pause. Because
above the pounding in my ears I can hear guitar chords…a melody playing softly
through the thick door. Not just any melody, but the most beautiful and
heartbreaking melody I’ve ever heard. It’s a simple song, slow and beautiful, a
ballad. The sound makes my heart hum and my mind clear. My blood pressure
returns to normal again instantly.
The melody continues and it’s so beautiful that I’m compelled to
stand in silence and listen. I desperately need to hear it more clearly. I’m
scared to go in; afraid the melody will stop when he sees me. I carefully and
quietly turn the doorknob, cracking the door just a slight bit. I stop
breathing for a moment, praying he hasn’t noticed. When the melody continues, I
put my ear up to the crack.
The song fills my head like a dream, each note breaking my heart
with the emotion it coveys. Tears spring to my eyes, and I’m not even sure why
other than that the haunting tune.
“In my heart’s sequestered chambers lies truth stripped of
poets gloss…” I hear Jeremy’s voice begin with the melody. His voice,
yet not his voice. His voice because it’s still bluesy and rock and roll, but
soft and extremely sad. Devastatingly sad. Beautiful…
“Words alone are vain and vacant and my heart is mute…” His voice breaks on
the end of the sentence, but the song continues. “In response to aching
silence memory summons half heard voices. And my soul finds primal eloquence
and wraps me in song…” Tears fall down my cheeks, his singing changing
and warming as if he is actually wrapping me in the music he plays. His voice
becomes more beautiful as he continues, pained and tortured.
“Wraps me…in song…If you would comfort me, sing me a lullaby. If
you would win my heart, sing me a love song. If you would mourn me
and bring me to God, sing me a requiem. Sing me to heaven!” His voice
crescendos as he sings the lyrics, ending in a wounded plea, as if he’s begging
for relief from pain.
I’m sobbing loudly now, and I can’t wait anymore to be in his
presence. I push the door open and see his shocked expression from the couch in
the living room where he sits. He’s holding his glimmering silver guitar in his
hand, and I spot where my name is written in green cursive along the bottom of
it.
He looks surprised at first, his eyes wide and breathing rapid.
We lock eyes with each other and tears roll down both our cheeks. His fingers
move along the neck of the guitar again, not looking away from me. “Sing
me a lullaby. A love song. A requiem. Love me, comfort me. Bring me to God.”
I put a hand up to my mouth. He takes a shaky breath and
continues. “Sing me a love song. Sing me to Heaven…” He
finishes, the last note lingering in the air, soft and sweet and agonizing.
My knees give out under the weight of my stress and pain. My
emotions have been all over the place. Here I was, coming to scream at him and
tell him that I thought he was a piece of shit. Now I find myself sobbing on
the floor of his apartment because of the crushing way that I love him. That I
can’t live without him. That he needs to tell me it’s not true.
Dylan and Jeremy were both surprised by their pull towards each other. Dylan not knowing how to deal with fame and the effects it has on Jeremy and on their relationship. Jeremy had a hard time dealing with the fame too. I read this when it first came out back in May and by the end was chopping at the bits to get to book two to see where these tortured souls would be heading.
TRIALS: Its three years later and a lot of things have changed. Dylan is now with Scott and Jeremy has dropped out of radar leaving Dylan to wonder where he is and why he just disappeared. Just when Dylan thought her life was finally getting back to normal. Jeremy shows up again, but not in the way that Dylan imagined. Jeremy is being charged with murder of a 17 year old girl found dead in his house. Dylan is now interning with the District Attorney's office and they plan on using Dylan to get to a confession out of Jeremy. The only problem is that Dylan doesn't think he is guilty. I was heart broken for Jeremy, Dylan and Scott through out this book. Dylan's love for both men has her at a crossroad. But which way will Dylan go? The safe way or the way that is pure trouble but what her heart won't let her forget. SO SO Good!! Loved this conclusion to such an untraditional love story. I was soaring high and low with them and really loved how everything ended.
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Sarah Biermann, RN, BSN was born Wilmington,
Delaware and grew up in Claymont. She attended Cab Calloway School of the Arts
in Wilmington for high school, majoring in creative writing. She went on to
Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, PA for her Associates Degree
in Nursing. She recently graduated Drexel University with her BSN in nursing
and is currently in their Masters program for nursing education. Sarah's
nursing specialty is in drugs and alcohol detox and rehab.
Sarah has been married to her husband, Jon, for 8
years. She has two beautiful daughters: Anna, age 7, and Quinn, age 2. They
live in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
She enjoys reading, singing, art, music, television,
going to the movies, Hershey Park, and writing. "Tracks"- the first
book in the "Rock Bottom" series- is her first book.
Sarah is currently working on the second book in the
"Rock Bottom" series- titled "Trials"- coming soon.
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