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    One Wild Wish
    One Wild Wish
    One Wild Wish
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    One Wild Wish

    By Devon Rhodes

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    For Rory, his band landing a well-paid private gig at a wild, remote mountain lodge is a wish come true. He needs the money bad enough to go along with all the strange clauses in their contract with the mysterious group. The one that specifies everyone must be in committed relationships? Hell, he can just fake it for a week with his bandmate, Benny.

    Jared has his hands full trying to manage this year’s Solstice ceremony with his nephew and heir, Curtis, coming of age and into his powers. Giving in to Curtis’s request to book the band was probably a huge mistake, but with ironclad rules in place, Jared should be able to keep the youngsters under control. Or so he thinks, until he meets Rory. Suddenly, he’s fighting for his own control. And when Rory’s past catches up with him, it threatens to expose Jared’s biggest secret... his clan’s very existence. The good news? Rory’s nemesis has finally given up on him. The bad news? He’s taken Curtis....

    A part of the 2010 Daily Dose Set, Midsummer's Nightmare, which includes 30 M/M stories of supernatural romance that may feature an edge of suspense and heart-pounding fear; a taste of the paranormal worlds of ghosts, vampires, and werewolves; and even the stuff of nightmares and dreamscapes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9781615814961
    One Wild Wish
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    Devon Rhodes

    Devon started reading and writing at an early age and never looked back. At 39 and holding, Devon finally figured out the best way to channel her midlife crisis was to morph from mild-mannered stay-at-home mom to erotic romance writer. She lives in Oregon with her family, who are (mostly) understanding of all the time she spends on her laptop, aka the black hole.

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      This is a great story about a rock band whose lead singer, Rory, is in trouble with his ex, who has robbed him blind. The band gets a lucrative gig with some strange stipulations in the contract. Amongst others, Rory and his best friend Benny will need to pretend to be in a committed relationship since no singles are allowed...

      But not all is as it seems once they make it to the remote location. Rory's and Benny's control is quickly challenged by two of the very attactive males there. Jared, the leader, has a particular issue keeping his hands away from Rory. His nephew, Curtis, falls for Benny. Once the real trouble starts, though, nothing will stop the men pairing up the way their instincts demand. Perfect!

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    One Wild Wish - Devon Rhodes

    One Wild Wish

    By Devon Rhodes

    For Rory, his band landing a well-paid private gig at a wild, remote mountain lodge is a wish come true. He needs the money bad enough to go along with all the strange clauses in their contract with the mysterious group. The one that specifies everyone must be in committed relationships? Hell, he can just fake it for a week with his bandmate, Benny.

    Jared has his hands full trying to manage this year’s Solstice ceremony with his nephew and heir, Curtis, coming of age and into his powers. Giving in to Curtis’s request to book the band was probably a huge mistake, but with ironclad rules in place, Jared should be able to keep the youngsters under control. Or so he thinks, until he meets Rory. Suddenly, he’s fighting for his own control. And when Rory’s past catches up with him, it threatens to expose Jared’s biggest secret… his clan’s very existence. The good news? Rory’s nemesis has finally given up on him. The bad news? He’s taken Curtis….

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    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    About the Author

    By Devon Rhodes

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    Chapter One

    I DON’T know how you talked me into this, Rory grumbled as Benny made wide, innocent eyes at him from the passenger’s seat of the SUV. His best friend and bandmate’s who, me? expression was getting old. Fast.

    Rory had to admit, Benny’d gotten the group an amazing gig—a chance to play a really small venue and try out some of their new music in an intimate setting. Three consecutive shows for their band, One Wish—and one was actually going to be a cappella, Austin City Limits-style. Being booked in for three performances spread over a week with rest days in between shows—without having to travel—was a huge plus as well. The topper? A staggering remuneration package, and Rory sure needed the money right now.

    Too good to be true, right? The only fly in the ointment was the weird conditions in the contract they’d just signed with the group they’d be performing for. It was essentially a private performance for some kind of religious organization or something, and they’d laid down some very bizarre ground rules. Not just requests either, but actual deal-breakers in the fucking contract.

    No photography or videography. That one Rory was really bummed about. It would’ve been fantastic to tape the small-house shows for a music video or promo piece or at the very least something to stick up on the website. Especially, he thought wistfully, the a cappella performance.

    Once the band arrived at the property containing the venue, they could not leave until after their last show. That was all kinds of fucked up. Like volunteering—by contract, no less—to be a prisoner.

    And everyone involved had to be in a committed relationship.

    Rory snorted and rolled his eyes. And they said performers had freaky conditions in their contracts.

    It was this last one that Benny had tried to slip past Rory, mumbling it at the last second.

    What? Rory had exclaimed incredulously. First of all, what the hell? And secondly, duh! Both of us are single. And wait. Does that mean the roadies and tech guys too? Shit.

    So we only take the married or practically married ones. Benny had turned on his persuasive charm. Which usually worked. Damn it.

    Rory waited impatiently for his roommate to continue and address the obvious. When nothing more was forthcoming, he rolled his eyes. "And us? Kinda pointless to leave us at home." When you had a group of four, two missing would be a tad noticeable. Especially the lead singers.

    "Well, we are in a committed relationship. That was when the butter-wouldn’t-melt look had started. Benny used his long, elegant fingers to tick off his supporting arguments. We live together. We own the house together. We’ve got the band together. Hell, we even have sex more often than some of our married friends. If that’s not committed, what is?"

    Rory took a deep breath, striving for patience. Now, I realize I don’t know exactly why they want it that way, but I’m ninety-nine percent sure that’s not what they meant. And you know it.

    Aww, c’mon, Ree. Seriously. This is a great opp. Don’t go getting all righteous on me now. Benny had really turned on the charismatic, give-in-to-me-you-know-you-want-to eyes that would have had ninety-nine percent of the population tripping over themselves to do whatever Benny wanted. Unfortunately, Rory had never been one of the one percent. He could feel himself caving. Damn it.

    Okay, but let’s keep it cas’ in private. I’m not in the mood for one of our weird little messed-up now-we’re-screwing-and-can’t-be-friends episodes.

    Keep it friendly, but not too friendly. Got it.

    The GPS mellifluously reminded Rory to turn right in two hundred feet, which was a good thing, because otherwise he might have missed the very low-key and overgrown side

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