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It wasn't until somewhere during the last half of Strung Out when I realized who is the main inspiration for Scarla❁Scarlette.

She was always there, unknown to me, lurking in the back of my mind. Much like Scarla, Scarla's inspiration keeps a low profile, so I only had a fictional version of her creeping into each scene.

I won't say she's the only inspiration. Going in, I had interviews and snapshots in my head of many celebrity children and they wove into words. Yet I'll never forget the moment my fingers froze on the keyboard as Scarla's face morphed into her unconscious inspiration...

and I knew she'd been there all along...






Needles and Pins: Strung Out and Hung Outavailable on Kindle UnlimitedKindle and Paperback

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Strung Out by Lyrica Creed

Finding my best friend and getting the hell out of L.A. is top priority, especially since my relationship with my rockstar stepbrother grows more complicated each day.

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I'm excited to say Strung Out is live on Kindle. The downloads and reads have been steady, making me giddy to watch, even some reviews coming in. Thank you to all of you who are loving it, and everyone taking the time to rate and review. And thank you to Magic of Books Promotions for getting the word out on social media!

the debut novel
by

Lyrica Creed
Official genre of book: Contemporary Romance/ Rock Band Romance
Editor: The Pedantic Punctuator
Cover Designer: Book Bangs



Finding my best friend and getting the hell out of California is top priority. Especially as the relationship with my rockstar stepbrother becomes more complicated with each passing day...

I’m on the tour bus partying!

The text from my best friend, Ivy is one of her last. When weeks stretch with no further contact, I travel to L.A. to track down the band known as Rageon and find Ivy.

As the daughter of a groupie mom, and of a rock star father who fatally overdosed, I know the dangers of the world my friend disappeared into.

My ex-stepbrother, Gage, a musician who’s just come off tour invites me to crash at his place.

The last time I saw Gage in person, we were teens. He's a popular presence on social media, so I’m prepared for the tattoo-covered rocker who answers my knock. What I’m not expecting to find is that the sweet, sensitive teen I grew up with is now an irresponsible, partying playboy who lives for his next fix.

As the search for Ivy narrows, my relationship with my rockstar stepbrother becomes more complicated. The tingling tug of attraction toward him is unexpected--and unacceptable. First, we’re practically siblings. Most importantly, I’ll never allow myself to fall for a musician, especially one with a drug addiction.

Gage teams up with me to find Ivy, introducing me into the right circles and guarding my secrets.

My search for Ivy takes me places I never wanted to go...

And my heart is an unwilling passenger on that dark ride.




I stretched out on the sunning pad, bringing one knee slightly up, and lifting my arms above my head. I didn’t have to look toward the studio to know Gage was watching. His gaze was a pleasant tickle on my skin, and the sounds he cajoled from his guitar pulsated a pleasure point in the pit of my stomach. The combination caused a sweet, hot burn between my legs.

I was falling in love with him. Either I had been since my teen crush days and had right this second realized it, or I had fallen hard—yesterday morning with seven words.

I would have taken care of you.

Did he have feelings for me? Or did he watch me with fire in his eyes and continuously make up excuses to touch me out of desire only?

Rock stars. Bad.

I worked on my self-brainwashing technique.

Rock stars. Trouble.

But Gage was Gage. The boy who had taken care of me. The man who wanted to...

A few more measures drifted over the pool and then dwindled to a pause. “You ever going to order the linguine?” he asked.

We had hashed over what we wanted for dinner and had decided on Pace, an Italian restaurant that delivered in the area.

“What are you going to do when I leave?” I grumbled about the chore and didn’t immediately leave my comfortable position to wade over to my phone.

Was my leaving getting to him too? His eyes seemed sad and distant for a moment before he recovered and retorted. “Same thing I did before you showed. Throw wild parties. Fill the pool with naked models who will order me food and bring me drinks.”

I laughed. But the sound seemed fake to my ears. The thought of nude women doing Gage’s every bidding was so not funny to me. But since he was being big brother taunting me, I served up sassy-little-sister-on-a-stick right back. “You sure you had all that going on? Pool looks empty to me. When I came I was hoping you’d have parties with hot rock stars hanging all day.”

One second later, he had vacated the chair and was in the water. Five seconds later, he’d reached my teak island and was hauling me off as I screeched.

“You need to cool off, little mermaid!”

“No, I don’t. I really don’t.”

His grip relaxed, allowing me to slide down his front until I was standing in the knee-deep water. When I shivered, it wasn’t because I’d cooled off! Quite the opposite.

“What would you do with these hot rock stars?” His challenge was a husky rumble near one of my ears.

My gaze glided from the hand underwater on my waist, up his arm, taking in the decorative ink—barbed wire music scores ran up the inside of his arm and beginning at the bend, spiraled up his biceps and triceps. “Hot rock star… Half naked in the pool…” I used his own images against him. “Hmm. I don’t know…”

In retaliation, he hooked an arm beneath my knees, prepared to unbalance me.

“Don’t… I don’t want to be all wet again…” I was laughing so hard at his antics, I didn’t immediately grasp what I’d said until his expression became even more animated.

“No? Are you sure?”

I’d hiked head-on into that one. His eyes were still alight with mischief. But they also glittered dark and dangerous. In the position he had maneuvered me into, he could drop me, and I’d fall backward, dunking under before I caught myself. Or he could hold me closer… and kiss me…

Either way, I’d end up wet.

“Very sure.” It took every ounce of willpower to force the two words out.

I could call Derrick as soon as my plane landed in Belize. Or I’d have a fling. What I wouldn’t do was cross what was becoming a very thin line—perhaps even a dotted one—between stepbrother and lover.

The plunge into the water startled me. I’d been so sure Gage wouldn’t drop me when I’d drifted for a few seconds into my thoughts. My elbows hit the smooth bottom, and I pushed above the water, sputtering and wiping the hair from my face.

“You ass!” I skimmed the surface with my hands, raining a series of splashes until he was deluged and dripping.

He didn’t even fight back, simply shot one of his smirks and hastened back to his chair and his ever-ringing phone.





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Lyrica Creed lives and breathes music. Austin, Texas will always be home, but she surrendered to wanderlust just out of college. Her phone stays handy while sleeping to record the melodies or verses she wakes to. One night instead of a tune, she roused to a plot and characters whispering in her ear, and Strung Out was born. When Gage and Scarlette weren’t content to fade away into their HEA, Hung Out followed.

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Excerpt:
The baggage claim area was empty of rock stars. Gage had yet to answer my ‘Wheels down’ text. While waiting for the crowd to thin around the baggage carousel, I peered through the large windows, scanning the waiting rides, but almost every vehicle was abuzz with loading activity. Pulling my phone from my pocket, I checked for an answer to my text and sent another.
ScarlaIn baggage now. Where are you? 12:49 AM
When we were children, my stepbrother had always been there for me. Even when my mom had been photographed by the paparazzi with her lover, creating one hell of a scandalous split up with Gage’s father, Gage had remained interested in my life. But a couple of years after graduation, his band, Fire Flight, had taken off. I’d rarely heard from Gage since.Stumbling across him on the internet couldn’t be helped, him being a paparazzi and tabloid favorite. We were friends on Facebook. But I had a feeling someone else had taken over his accounts. A social media assistant who thought my congratulatory comments beneath the posts of an album drop or a number one iTunes download were the blabbering of a fan or groupie, because I never got more than a ‘like’—if that—in return.
Obviously, the niggling feeling that Gage hadn’t ignored me on social media had been wishful thinking. He was a rock star, and I knew firsthand how self-absorbed celebrities were.

STRUNG OUT by Lyrica Creed
Finding her best friend and getting the hell out of California is top priority. Especially as the relationship with her rock star stepbrother becomes more complicated with each passing day... 
Guess who is on the bus partying with Rageon! Thanks for the all access passes! You so rock!
The text is the last contact Scarla Smythe had with her best friend, Ivy. When days go by of no further contact, Scarla begins to worry. As the daughter of a groupie mom and a rock star father who fatally overdosed, she knows the dangers of the world Ivy disappeared into. Weeks go by of no return messages, and Scarla travels to L.A. to track down the band known as Rageon and find Ivy. 
Her ex-stepbrother, Gage, is a well-known musician, and she's sure he will help her search by introducing her into the right circles.
The last time Scarla saw Gage in person, they were teens. But he's a popular presence on social media, so she's prepared for the tattoo-covered rocker who answers her knock. What she's not expecting is to see the sweet, sensitive teen she grew up with is now an irresponsible, partying playboy with a drug addiction.
As the search for Ivy narrows, Scarla's relationship with her rock star stepbrother becomes more complicated with each passing day. Beneath the baggage and the layers of a complicated sexy man, she finds the same boy she always knew...
...And loved.
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