NOW A WASHINGTON POST, AMAZON MOST SOLD, AND TOP 3 AMAZON BESTSELLER“Heartbreaking…soul-shattering.” – Diary of a Book Fiend.“Hands down my top favorite rockstar romance ever.” – Dirty Girl Romance Blog.From bestselling author L.J. Shen, comes a new, standalone, contemporary romance. It should have been easy.I needed the money. He needed a babysitter to keep him from snorting himself to death.I … babysitter to keep him from snorting himself to death.
I was cherry-picked especially for him. Responsible. Optimistic. Warm. Innocent.
The worst part is that I should have known better.
Alex Winslow. British rock star. Serial heartbreaker. Casanova with whiskey eyes.
“Don’t get near the devil in a leather jacket. He’ll chew you up and spit you out.”
Guess what? I didn’t listen.
I signed the contract.
World tour. Three months. Four Continents. One hundred shows.
My name is Indigo Bellamy, and I sold my soul to a tattooed god.
Problem was, my soul wasn’t enough for Alex Winslow. He ended up taking my body, too.
Then he took my heart.
Then he took my all.
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It’s a hot, sexy, and drama filled, rock n roll dream. An epic romance about a filthy mouthed English rocker and the girl tasked to keep him out of trouble.
Lovers of rockstar romances will lose their minds with Midnight Blue. This was my first L.J. Shen book, and I can’t wait to devour more. The writing was superb, the plot intriguing, with a twist I didn’t see coming at the end. More than that, the characters were beautifully written, and I found it nearly impossible to put this book down until I’d finished every last word. Phenomenal!
4.5 Tania Stars!!!
The sweat dripping down on the guitar. Sex.
My muscles flexing, straining to produce that perfect harmony. Climax.
They see me, feel me. They hear me. Bliss
This is the life of Alex Winslow…
Everybody wants to be a Rockstar. It’s the closest thing to being a god.
Alex has hit rock bottom in his life, in his career. After releasing the album that failed big time, to losing it totally onstage at the Grammy’s, he has now completed an extended stay in rehab and is back at it. The only thing is, he now needs a ‘babysitter’. His band mates, his managers, the ‘suits’ all don’t trust that he will be able to pull off this coming back tour.
Indie Bellamy aka New Girl aka Stardust, needs to take this job. The money being offered to her for being a glorified babysitter could change everything for her, her brother, his wife and their baby. 3 months… at the end of those 3 months, her bleak world would be bright again.
It wasn’t going to be an easy job for Indie.
It wasn’t going to be an easy tour for Alex.
I found my well in the middle of the desert. Now it’s time to drink from it. Every. Single. Drop.
This tour was a building that was being built with each stop. Whether or not this building would last the test of time, would be determined by these two overcoming all the hidden lies, all the backstabbing from ‘friends’ and coming clean to each other. Even though Indie doesn’t make it to the end of the tour, the foundation was set.
Absolutely loved this story! From the cocky Rock Star to the ever forgiving, always loving Indie. Alex and Indie were two broken individuals that needed to find each other’s glue. Great job once again on writing a story that sucks you in from the beginning and exhales you out at the end!
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Holy Hello Kitty!!!!!! This book ROCKED MY BOOK WORLD!!!!! Reading slump OVER!!!!!! L. J., this is my first book with you and I can honestly say IT WILL NOT BE MY LAST!!!!!!!
Alex and Indigo story is EVERYTHING!!!
Alex is a rock God! who has everything he needs and wants but he is bitter and also an addict..
his life hasn’t been easy.. his ex girlfriend or ex fiancé cheated on him or at least thats what he knows.. she was engage to be married to his best friend and now enemy.. his parents are also cheating to each other, they don’t really want anything to do with Alex except his money and fame.. Alex only cared about himself, not caring who he hurts in the process .. he wont stop until he gets whatever he wants and what he wants is her… a beautiful girl who he calls his baby-sitter
Alex is obsessed with his ex Fallon, he has on his mind that he will soon be together with her again.. in his mind he still so in love with her and there is no one in the entire universe like Fallon.. he has been so wrapped up in that lied that he doesn’t even know what he feels anymore.. Until her.. nothing has prepare him for her.. his baby sitter.. his shadow for three months..
Indigo a girl who is desperate to find a good job so she can help her family .. specially her brother who is an addict.. Indigo is a survivor she is always fighting and trying to make everybody around feel better because she cares, she cares too much about everything that matters and everybody that matters.. she lost her parents in a horrible way and in someway she had to take care of her brother and family.. she wasn’t about throw it all away, she wanted to fight and make things right for them again..
Indigo accepts an offer she can’t refuse.. a good money just to chaperone one of the biggest rock stars on the planet.. it seems like an easy task but Alex wont make that easy on her or anybody.. he is so bitter and cocky that he keeps making Indigo struggle not to say anything, not to quit, not to throw everything in his face.. because every time she wants to say: “F… it i cant do this anymore”.. she remembers her family and her promises to keep them up-float.. she remembers how her heart is beating for him..
Alex and Indigo story takes a while for them to recognize their love.. Alex keeps telling himself is just a one nightstand and he will take what he needs in order to write this amazing record and then he will discard Indigo as he been doing for a while with everything and everybody around him.. he is not up for any commitment and he keeps repeating this to themselves .. but no matter how many times he recited .. his heart was not convinced, his heart had another agenda.. and agenda both where not prepare to face..
Indigo is a great heroine she wont take any sh…. from Alex or anyone, even thou she is broken, in someway like Alex, she is strong and funny and very more balanced in her life.. she accepts whatever Alex has to offer because she knows what is on the agenda.. they have been true to one another until one day the lines get blurred and they wont even know what they have and what they are loosing..
I love Midnight Blue has, also a lot of humor.. Alex is a funny guy even thou his nature is to be a melancholic or sad.. or at least is how he sees himself.. he still have this funny side that you will love..
thats why his team mates love him and know he is not a jerk, he is just cooping the way he knows how to do it..
There’re so many great secondary characters .. Jenna, Blake story is great you won’t see that coming.. Lucas, Fallon and Will story wow all of them was super unexpected… Craig and Nina.. Ziggy
so many great things to say about this book.. and so many amazing things to say about L.J Shen ..
I’ve become a very huge fan of L.J is one of my favorite authors.. i will continue reading her stories..
thank you L.J you rock!!
If you love a book with hilarious banter then this book is for you.
This book had so much banter I was suppressing laughs all over the place (I was reading when I shouldnt be #rebel).
At the same time, if you want a book that will break your heart and put it back together several times, then again, this book is for you!
Previously out of control rock star, Alex needs a babysitter to make him toe the line….enter Indie.
What a fabulous woman Indie was. I can safely say she is my favourite leading lady written by this author.
This book can only be described with 1 word. Fabulous.
Alex & Indie
He’s got sooo many demons he’s fighting and then there’s rehab that he’s struggling to get through and his so called band mates…
She has been assigned to be his PR mentor/babysitter for 3 months. She needs to get him through this and make sure he doesn’t fail, for her family.
They are two different people, flawed, but doing the best they can to survive life’s turmoils as best they can…
(This is an amazing novel and I love how the authoress looks at how horrible touring life can be on a person mentally) Loved it.
Swoon worthy
“Once upon a time, a mere mortal fell in love with a rock God-you probably know this is not a fairy tale, Mortals and Gods do not mix”
This is the story of Alex Winslow- the biggest rock God on the planet!
With that being said, he is an addict, fresh out of rehab, selfish, self absorbed, and about to go out on a world tour. Knowing how volatile Alex is and how fragile his sobriety is, his agent Jenna was determined to find him a “sobriety companion” aka a “nanny” as Alex saw it…enter Indigo Bellamy “Indie” aka “Stardust” Indiie is Alex’s NINTH “nanny” as he’s chased off the other 8 in DAYS! She’ll be no different, or so he thought
“I really can’t stress this enough, but i’ll try-your little mind games are not going to work- I’m keeping this job. Get used to me.”
God i FLOVE a feisty take no shit female!!!! Indie is a loaner, who is happy to spend her time in her room sewing her clothes when she’s not spending time with her baby nephew who is in desperate need of surgery for ear tubes. Since her parents were killed, her brother was her family…then his girlfriend became his wife, and her nephew was born, and her family grew, but the absence of her mother and father had its effects on Indie AND Craig (her brother) Craig drinks too much, was without a job again, bills were piling up…this job, the paycheck – would take care of sooo much! First and foremost her nephews surgery and her family’s bills and immidiate needs.
Three months, over 1/4 million, and 1 self absorbed asshole
“you’re such a bastard, calling you a bastard is an insult to every other bastard inhabiting the world. We need to find a new word for what you are”
But that’s the thing with “hate” -it is such a raw emotion, and such raw emotions have such passion behind them. Sometimes we don’t even notice it’s happening or to what extent –
While on tour, Alex is supposed to write a new album, but being heartbroken by his ex, Fallon who cheated on him with one of his best mates (did i forget to mention Alex is a BRITTISH rocker!?!- GAH!) hence the downward spiral that had him snorting enough coke to make a 5 tier wedding cake, he hasn’t been able to write a word…until he finds his muse in Indie.
Three months- the ONLY female on the tour, and not just ANY female, one that could care less who he is, one that makes him feel “real” – just one problem, Indie swore she would never sleep with him!. Alex is still in love with Fallon and vows to get her back…but until then….
“You should live, and make mistakes, and i’m offering to be one of those mistakes, because you have nothing to lose, we have an expiration date, we have a deadline, we have endless 5 hotel rooms and an album to write and your family to save, and just fucking admit it – all arrows point in the same direction – US. TOGETHER. FOR. NOW.”
Alex Winslow was beautiful in a way storms were – from afar. Just like them he had the power to sweep and ruin you. Two things i was too busy trying to survive”
“when i look at you, i see something broken that isn’t worth fixing. And you look at me like i’m a cheap thing to replace the expensive one thats been stolen from yoi. See, we’re all vases, and you’re the one on the floor, shattered beyond repair. So, I’ll let some one else pick you up, It’s really that simple, have fun with your temporary glue”
The thing about building up walls is they CAN come down, with enough persistence haunted with passion, walls tend to crumble!
“When i finally lay my hands on you, and make no mistakes, Stardust, i will – you will be crying all right. My name. Over. And. Over. Again”
“if you want me to believe you about not wanting me to fuck you raw, you should probably stop looking at me like that. Like you’re already mine”
“you look at me with dynamite in your eyes, waiting for me to strike the match and finally set you on fire”
SWOOOOONN worthiness right there
He was handsome, no way around it! But Indie was able to catch rare glimpses into Alex she didn’t think even his mates saw much of anymore.
“i had no illusions about Alex’s nature. He was an addict and a tortured soul, and he wasn’t going to stick around. But this felt like everything. This made me settle for ‘now’ instead of ‘forever’ ”
But even “now” was short lived, shorter than thought. One night in Paris,
one fateful encounter,
one unimaginable secret
and “now” was gone
Not all secrets are forgivable
Will Alex go into another coke fueled downward spiral washed away with alcohol?
Will the asteroids that are Alex and Indie smash into millions of pieces littering the midnight sky or can they find their planet in which to orbit?
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Wow this book was.. not sure the words I would like to tell you about this book that is is worth the read.. I’ve read every book from LJ Shen, and have always been hook from the first page to the very end. This book had a lot of emotions and twists and turns that will keep you riding tell the very end.. this book was about a rock star that wants love but does not accept it.. starts out with a drug problem and has to have a baby sitter trophies tour and write a new album. This book will keep you on edge and the sex is amazing.. This book will hold your heart in pieces…
5* Soul Searching Stars
~Alex Winslow was both an addict and an addiction.~
Ladies hold onto your hearts, Alex Winslow will slowly ruin you for any other man. This book has consumed me; addictive to the last note!! I know that Alex Winslow will be occupying my thoughts and dreams for quite some time to come. In my opinion, and as hot as the cover is, it does not depict the magnitude to how great this story is, and 5* just does to seem to justify the valuation.
~He’d lost his soul somewhere along the way, and I was just another piggybank he shook, trying to see if what was inside resembled what he was looking for.~
Alex Winslow, a volatile, cocky, pompous recovering addict is a musical god who has sold his soul to be the acclaimed star that he is. Without a soul, he opts to using Indigo’s, but it’s not only her soul that he takes on his quest to reclaim what was once his.
~Now that Tania was gone, Stardust was my main instrument. And it saddened me, because I knew I had to break her, too.~
Indigo is smart, unique and an idealist, and she has no doubt that she will have to stay strong in order to survive Alex Winslow. Will she get through this tour unscathed?
LJ never fails to deliver a “powerfully written contemporary love story”. Her characters and plot are not only unique but addictive and a perfect blend of realistic and dreamy. Shen manages to capture every imaginable emotion in her novels making them not only a pleasure to read, but a privilege.
Epic!
L.J. Shen started the year off with a BANG! This story was nothing short of EPIC. Emotional, Sexy, Rip-your-heart-out- Angst! For 3 days I lived in their world. It took me three days to read this book because I didn’t want it to end, I didn’t want to leave. I love that this wasn’t instant love/lust…That we got to really watch how these two complete opposites fell in love.
Alex has RUINED me and is now my favorite L.J. Shen hero. And Indie gah, she was written to perfection.The love story of Alex Winslow and Indigo Bellamy WILL make you feel…EVERYTHING.
Midnight Blue is L.J. Shen’s best work yet. This is one epic love rockstar romance you don’t want to miss!
Midnight Blue has been on my kindle for a while. I thought I was losing my love of reading and decided to read one more book before I give reading books up for a while. I’m so glad I chose this story. I absolutely loved this book! It reminded me of the enjoyment that books can bring and it left me wanting to read more books. It’s about choosing the right book and I guess I hadn’t been doing that for a while. I devoured this book within a few hours and I honestly was not ready for the ending; I wanted more. This story tells you what in advance about the heartbreak so you are prepared but the anticipation of when it’s going to happen leaves you on the edge of your seat. Knowing it’s going to happen but not knowing how you will feel when it does is everything. I wanted Indigo (Stardust) and Alex to work. This is one couple you will root for throughout this whole story. There’s the bad & good moments, truths and lies, betrayal and devotion, the sweet, soft and hard moments but the FEELS in this story is everything. I enjoyed this story a lot and YES, I would recommend it to all romance book lovers.
Great book
LJ Shen was born to create book @sshole that you fall in love with! The perfect amount as charm and jerk! Once again I had a problem putting down the book. I had to read it and eat up the story that made me want to fight for Indie and strangle Alex in the beginning and made me cheering for them at the end.
Alex is Lovable Afterall!
So Many emotions & feelings mainly about Alex throughout the book. I wasn’t sure if I would ever be able to love Alex, but in the end, I did fall in love with him 100%! Indie changed him for the better & tamed the bad boy in him! I’m gonna miss this book as well & Alex & Indie as well as all their friends including Blake, Jenna & Hudson’s commentary! Reading the epilogue made me cry so many happy tears & squeezed my heart! It was fate that they ended up where they did! I’m glad that both Indie & Alex found love & happiness after everything they’ve been through in their lives! Sometimes it takes a bit of a change to end up where you’re supposed to be! I loved having a peek into the songwriting process!
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This book is everything! My heart felt like it was in a vice from start to finish.
Alex Winslow is everything I was hoping he would be and more. He’s a self obsessed rock star that’s stuck in a cycle of self destruction and shows no sign of stopping on his own. Enter Indie. Desperate for a job to help get her family out of their current situation, Indie has no idea how much of an effect spending three months on tour baby sitting British rock god Alex is going to cost her. Indie quickly turned into one of my favourite female characters. She’s sweet, innocent, optimistic but she’s also got a back bone and plenty of determination. Alex’s attempts to get rid of her only prove how determined Indie is. With the hate filled attraction that’s sparking between them getting impossible to ignore, keeping Alex at a distance is going to be a lot harder than Indie first expected.
Midnight Blue has a little bit of everything. Hot, arrogant, complex and troubled a**hole, sweet but sassy female who you wish you could swap places with, the perfect balance of hot, angsty and sad with some humour thrown in, I don’t think this book could be any better. There’s so much more to these two characters than first meets the eye and the more I got to know them, the harder I fell for them both.
I say after every book I read by LJ Shen that there’s no way she can top that, but she keeps proving me wrong. Alex Winslow will make you hate him but I guarantee by the end of this book, you’ll want him for yourself. Another fantastic book from Ms Shen that proves no one can write an alpha like she can. Be prepared for a book funk after reading this book!
Alex and Indie are complicated. and Alex has to let her in, after being in and out of rehab and being betrayed by people close to him. Alex has a lot of anger, with his ex and people using him and when he sees Indie she stops the bad and becomes his new Muse. Indie has to trust that he’s not just using her for the tour and her heart won’t get broken.
Indie needs the money to help her family and has to put up with a lot from Alex. Indie didn’t expect the way she felt around him or how she felt to find out everyone was keeping secrets from him. Indie even told herself that she wouldn’t fall in love, but realised to late she had.When Alex drops something that Indie isn’t sure if she can forgive him and leaves her broken prince. Alex tries to leave Indie alone and fails, until he gets a visit from her brother and knows what he has to do to get her back. You also see the relationships with the other characters develop and wonder what will happen with them as well.
MIDNIGHT BLUE is a standalone contemporary romance and probably one of my absolute favorite of rock star love stories ever written!!! Oh..My..Gawd!
First, a warning! If you’re looking for a hearts and roses, mushy kind of romance…THIS AIN’T IT!! (Sorry for all the exclamation points but they’re so necessary!) Alex is a British rock n’ roll God addicted to the lifestyle which includes drugs, sex and booze. Indie is the little “hanny” (hot nanny) hired to keep Alex on the straight and narrow throughout his tour.
I.Loved.These.Characters! LJ Shen must be a genius because she created these PEOPLE that have so many layers and dimensions, it’s impossible to understand or appreciate them in just one chapter and I loved that! All of the characters, including the secondary, just unfolded like flowers after a spring rain (cheesy, I know but true!). I felt so many different things for Alex, from exasperation to annoyance to delight to fury to happiness…oh my goodness! I felt like a puppet and Alex was the puppeteer! And sweet, sweet Indie. She was like a pixie on steroids; unique, bold, smart, passionate! Together, Alex and Indie will make you spittin’ mad and then SWOON with giddiness!
The beauty of this story is that it’s ugly. From start to finish, you will go on a journey. There’ll be some unexpected twists and detours. And you may not like where it takes you but if you stick with it until the end…you will be satisfied!! This one will be on my READ AGAIN E-SHELF for sure! Told from dual POVs with a super sweet and happy ending. I received, read and voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
Love all of LJ Shen’s bad boy romances! She’s an amazing writer, and if you haven’t read her books yet, go read them! All of them! lol 🙂
I’m not sure if any of my words in this review will do this book justice, but I’m definitely going to try. From the very beginning till the end this read was all-consuming. I inhaled every word, paragraph and chapter because I was consumed by the intense, emotional, gripping story that was written between these pages. This was one read that had all the feels and will have you spellbound, leaving you with one helluva book hangover. Prepare to be seduced, and captivated by this heart-wrenching breathtakingly beautiful story about second chances and love.