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Title: Drifter

Author: Eden Winters

Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books

Release Date: 7/7/20

Length: 238 Pages

Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Rocker

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Synopsis

Some legends never die.

Killian Desmond met his end in the fiery crash that killed his band, or so the newspapers say. Now a nameless drifter, he plays one pick-up gig after another in a haze of pain and regret, moving on the minute someone says, “You sound like that guy from Trickster.”

Getting outed cost Mike Rose his musical family. A bassist without a band, he’ll play any kind of music to earn a paycheck, but Trickster’s music provides light during the darkest moments of his life.

A chance meeting brings together two lost souls who spark enough heat to set their guitars on fire. Their chemistry, both onstage and off, feels like something written in the words of a song and gives them courage to face life again.

But to seize their future, they have to confront their past.

Love and the Left-handed Bassist

When you’re a southpaw, you have a different kind of relationship with your guitar.

You’d think that left-handed dexterity would be a huge asset to fingering the chords, but some players would rather use it for picking the strings. Sir Paul McCartney certainly did—that’s why you’ll see one instrument going against the crowd when the Beatles played.

Playing left-handed means restringing the guitar or bass so that the highest-pitch string is closest to the floor.  Chord charts have to be flipped over to make sense for the fingerings.  No right-hander is going to borrow your instrument and play their usual songs.

You might even think it’s a drawback, but if you want to play while rolling down the road in a Ford Bronco, like Mike Rose does in Drifter, you can roll down the window and stick the neck out, instead of interfering with the driver.

You might even get a few more songs written on the road.

Mike is the new bassist in Killian Desmond’s band, Trickster, but he’s also a songwriter, and many lyrics are featured in the story. Here is one of Mike’s compositions:

Down on my knees

But not for prayer,

Down on my knees

You put me there

 

I can’t stay down,

Stand up again,

Out on my own

For what you call sin

 

I had it all

Yet nothing worthwhile

I walked away

You’ll never win

 

No matter what,

I’ll be okay

I don’t need you

To find my way

 

I’m standing now

On my own two feet

I don’t need you

To be complete

 

Alone I’ll stand

Alone I’ll be

I don’t have much

But now I’m free

 

Fans of my work might remember the names Killian Desmond and Mike Rose from the novella Highway Man. Folks wanted more, especially from Mike’s point of view.

Drifter is that story. Two musicians, each lost in his own way, finding a will to live again.

Drifter

Some legends never die.

Killian Desmond met his end in the fiery crash that killed his band, or so the newspapers say. Now a nameless drifter, he plays one pick-up gig after another in a haze of pain and regret, moving on the minute someone says, “You sound like that guy from Trickster.”

Getting outed cost Mike Rose his musical family. A bassist without a band, he’ll play any kind of music to earn a paycheck, but Trickster’s music provides light during the darkest moments of his life.

A chance meeting brings together two lost souls who spark enough heat to set their guitars on fire. Their chemistry, both onstage and off, feels like something written in the words of a song and gives them courage to face life again.

But to seize their future, they have to confront their past.

Every damned, ugly inch of it.

 

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You will know Eden Winters by her distinctive white plumage and exuberant cry of “Hey, y’all!” in a Southern US drawl so thick it renders even the simplest of words unrecognizable. Watch out, she hugs!

Driven by insatiable curiosity, she possibly holds the world’s record for curriculum changes to the point that she’s never quite earned a degree but is a force to be reckoned with at Trivial Pursuit.

She’s trudged down hallways with police detectives, learned to disarm knife-wielding bad guys, and witnessed the correct way to blow doors off buildings. Her e-mail contains various snippets of forensic wisdom, such as “What would a dead body left in a Mexican drug tunnel look like after six months?” In the process of her adventures she has written twenty gay romance novels, has won Rainbow Awards, was a Lambda Awards Finalist, and lives in terror of authorities showing up at her door to question her Internet searches.

When not putting characters in dangerous situations she’s a mild-mannered business executive, mother, grandmother, vegetarian, and PFLAG activist.

Her natural habitats are airports, coffee shops, and on the backs of motorcycles.

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