The Rebellion by SL Scott Cover Reveal

I met my muse at fifteen. I’d just gotten busted

for smoking behind the school gymnasium. She inspired me with her laugh and

nonjudgmental attitude and, before I knew it, we were inseparable. Then I left

to pursue my rock star dreams—dreams she encouraged.

I got over Jaymes Grenier no problem. I never

think about that little bow at the top of her pink lips, or the way her green

eyes admired mine. Nope, I barely recall the way she fit so perfectly in my

arms when I held her at night. The sweet way she would whisper she loved me has

long faded from memory.

These are the lies I regularly tell myself

in hopes of believing them one day. Yeah, I was told I’d get over my first

love.

I didn’t. 

Derrick Masters marked me the moment we met back

in ninth grade. He called me over—all bravado and bad boy mystery wrapped in a

James Dean-esque package. Dark hair and blue eyes with a rebel without a cause

charisma. He was everything I was warned about, but I couldn’t resist. I

was his from that moment on.

His career took off almost as soon as he

did. I knew it would. I just thought I would be beside him as his partner in

crime, best friend, and lover. That’s what we had always been … before he left

me behind to fend for myself.

Fend? Fight is more like it.

I’ve been fighting ever since. 

Fighting for survival.

Fighting for a better life in a world determined

to keep me down.

I don’t have the luxury of letting my head live

in the lure of La La Land. His dreams may have come true, but mine were

extinguished. These days I fight for something bigger than me, bigger than we

were ever meant to be.

When his dreams come crashing back into my

reality, is this a second chance at that fairy tale ending or another

heartbreak in the making?