![]() ![]() Or encourage the good guy struggling to get out. All the damn woman has to do is write down what he tells her. ![]() Elizabeth’s integrity is the key to consolidating his legacy as one of rock’s greats. Contracting a respected biographer is simply about creating more buzz. His Resurrection Tour is shaping up to be his greatest triumph–if his golden voice holds out. ![]() But there’s no disaster he can’t overcome, from the breakup of his band to the inevitable damage to his reputation. Rock star Zander Freedman has been an outlier–many would say an outcast–for most of his life. She thought self-control was in her DNA after all, she grew up a minister’s daughter. Suddenly she’s having heated fantasies about her subject, fantasies this blue-eyed devil is only too willing to stoke. When in her life will she get another chance to work with a living legend? But saying yes to one temptation soon leads to another. In short, everything she seeks in a biography subject. Except the man is a mass of fascinating contradictions–manipulative, honest, gifted, charismatic and morally ambiguous. So bad-boy rock icon Zander Freedman couldn’t possibly tempt her to write his memoir. Rise - The redemption story of a rock star going straight(er) through the love of a good(ish) woman.Īcclaimed literary biographer Elizabeth Winston writes about long-dead heroes. ![]()
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