title: Staged
author: Cunning, Olivia
description: The world is his stage…
  
  Exodus End's legendary drummer, Steve Aimes, plays the role of a rock star better than anyone in the business. Since his divorce, he's embraced every rock 'n' roll stereotype and uses those vices to keep women at a safe emotional distance, while keeping their physical distance recklessly close. He vowed years ago to never give any woman the power to break his heart again. He just has to keep playing the part, and never drop his guard, and stop obsessing over the keyboardist in their new opening act. He didn't want Roux's band on this tour in the first place, but somehow she shattered his barriers without even trying. The only way he knows to save his heart from breaking is to make her his forever, so why does she keep pushing him away?
  
  
  The stage is her world…
  
  Roux Williams knows an opportunity like this only comes around once in a lifetime. Her band, Baroquen, has finally gotten their big break and are opening for Exodus End and Sinners -- two powerhouses of rock -- on the European leg of their world tour. She refuses to screw up this opportunity by getting involved with Steve Aimes no matter how gorgeous, sexy and surprisingly attentive he is. She can't deny her attraction to him -- the man has the body of a god and the face of a model -- but he's absolutely off limits. Maybe a lust-crazed weekend on a private island will get him out of her system. Or maybe she'll fall even harder. Once the tour is over they can date, but until then she must keep her distance, because mixing business with pleasure is not only tabloid fodder, it's professional suicide. But damn, why does he have to be so stubbornly irresistible?
  
  When their worlds are rattled by a ploy staged to destroy them, Exodus End's infamous bad boy and Baroquen's not-yet-famous good girl must figure out a way to have it all and each other.
  
  This is book 3 in the Exodus End World Tour series (a spin-off of the Sinners on Tour series). Book 1 (
  Insider
  ) and Book 2 (
  Outsider
  ) are also available, but this book can be read as a stand-alone.