Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Before the Final Encore
    Before the Final Encore
    Before the Final Encore
    Ebook46 pages28 minutes

    Before the Final Encore

    By Scotty Cade

    5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    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!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateFeb 18, 2015
    ISBN9781632165985
    Before the Final Encore
    Author

    Scotty Cade

    Scotty Cade left corporate America and twenty-five years of marketing and public relations in 2004 to buy an inn & restaurant on the island of Martha’s Vineyard with Kell, his husband of over twenty years. He started writing stories as soon as he could read, but only in the last eight years for publication. When not at the inn, you can find him on the bow of his boat writing romance novels with his Shetland sheepdog, Mavis, at his side. Being from the South and a lover of commitment and fidelity, all of his characters find their way to long, healthy relationships, however long it takes them to get there. He believes that, in the end, the boy should always get the boy. Scotty and Kell are avid boaters and spend the summers on Martha’s Vineyard and winters in Greenville, South Carolina. Website: www.scottycade.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/scotty.cade Twitter: @ScottyCade Email: scotty@scottycade.com

    Read more from Scotty Cade

    Related authors

    Related to Before the Final Encore

    Titles in the series (1)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Romance For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The People’s Chris

      Jun 30, 2022

      The People’s Chris
      14 min read

    • Article

      With Open Arms

      Aug 12, 2021

      With Open Arms
      7 min read

    • Article

      No Pressure!

      Apr 22, 2021

      No Pressure!
      5 min read

    • Article

      Whose Life Is It

      Dec 10, 2023

      “What the hell?” Danny jumped up and tore out of the kitchen where he’d been reading his mail and enjoying a quiet lunch with his sister, Elaine. Startled, she looked up from the newspaper. “Danny?” He ran through the foyer, out the front door, and t

      7 min read

    • Article

      Heavy Heart

      Feb 5, 2022

      Heavy Heart
      6 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2024

      I’ve always been an easy crier (let it come, not ashamed, never held it back in joy or grief, and wherever … subway, teaching, grocery store, (oh the desolate grocery store during the height of Covid) but now, the welling up: that’s daily now. —Lia P

      5 min read

    • Article

      Timespiral

      Feb 1, 2020

      Timespiral
      7 min read

    • Article

      Come with Me

      Dec 1, 2022

      Come with Me
      12 min read

    • Article

      The Music Of Angels

      Sep 1, 2018

      The Music Of Angels
      7 min read

    • Article

      Metaphors

      Mar 10, 2023

      I’m knitting on my front porch when a car roars to a stop in front of my house. It’s a red Mustang convertible, top down on this warm Thursday afternoon in June. Two girls sit in the front, two in the back. They smile and wave at me. I smile back tho

      8 min read

    • Article

      Good Bones

      Mar 19, 2020

      Good Bones
      18 min read

    • Article

      Emancipation

      Apr 10, 2024

      A plate of meat loaf and mashed potatoes balanced on her knees, Lorene watched a National Geographic documentary about a fifty-something woman living utterly alone on the tundra north of the Arctic circle, her home a compound of metal storage contain

      20 min read

    • Article

      “I Escaped My Grandfather’s Sex Cult”

      Mar 16, 2022

      I was born into the Family, a religious movement founded in Huntington Beach, California, in 1968 by my grandfather David Brandt Berg, with help from his four children, including my father, Hosea. It was known as the Children of God in its early days

      8 min read

    • Article

      Nugrybauti

      Apr 24, 2019

      Nugrybauti
      8 min read

    • Article

      Gabriel & Holly

      Feb 8, 2021

      The first day was the most daunting. It helped that she’d arrived last night to settle herself in the cottage annexe before first contact this morning. Still, nerves attacked her as she stood before the door of the imposing but charming ivy-covered 1

      6 min read

    • Article

      Something Better

      May 10, 2022

      Something Better
      6 min read

    • Article

      The July War

      Sep 8, 2020

      In summer, our neighborhood quiets in phases. The quieting begins in May. Schools give their older kids, the seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds, a month off to prepare for the baccalaureate exams. Following a ritual as old as our parents, the students

      21 min read

    • Article

      Begin Again

      Jun 14, 2022

      My grandfather came to live with me. There was nowhere else for him to go. What had happened to all his children? Death, decay, exile—I hardly know. My own parents died of pain. But I must not be too gloomy, at the beginning, or you will leave me, an

      6 min read

    • Article

      Fanning the FLAMES

      Jan 18, 2022

      Fanning the FLAMES
      6 min read

    • Article

      Now You Know

      Mar 10, 2022

      The humidity was high on this warm, hazy day. People moved slowly. Many sat on their porches, fanning themselves, with a beverage always within arm’s reach. It was going to be a hot summer in Virginia; they had already broken records. In a small gara

      17 min read

    • Article

      Welcome To the mad House

      Feb 15, 2024

      Welcome To the mad House
      5 min read

    • Article

      MAKE or BREAK

      Nov 28, 2019

      MAKE or BREAK
      8 min read

    • Article

      Summer Beach Reads

      Jan 10, 2021

      Summer Beach Reads
      7 min read

    • Article

      Summer Reads

      Dec 30, 2019

      Summer Reads
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Before the Final Encore

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Before the Final Encore - Scotty Cade

      Foreword

      WHEN I finished 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

      IAN DILLON drove 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

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1