Three love stories, two billionaires, and one contested crown. Who will claim the title as King of Madain Saleh?
Prince Marcos Sayid is next in line for the throne in the Kingdom of Madain Saleh but isn’t ready for the responsibility. His crown comes with an inheritance . . . and an arranged marriage. There’s just one problem, his intended, the feisty Hazel Marie Cohen thinks he’s a spoiled rich prince and refuses to even give him her phone number. And marriage, forget it! A series of shocking revelations takes Marcos across the globe and back, all while he’s hoping to find his place in the royal family, and his future queen. Alexander Cohen-Stephenson was once a typical college guy. He had no idea he was heir to the Cohen fortune. And imagine his surprise when he was asked to serve as advisor to the crown prince of a Middle Eastern kingdom. When Alex learns of a government scandal, he finds unlikely assistance to catch the culprits from the spunky Krystina Clark. Unfortunately for Alex, there’s a huge possibility she could be involved with the scandal. There’s an even bigger possibility that Prince Marcos and Alexander will be implicated as well. Prince Augustus Sayid is the bad boy with three even badder older brothers. A night of partying leads to the car accident that nearly takes the life of his best friend Alex Stephenson, leaving Gus crushed and facing jail time. When Alex wakes from his coma, he’s challenged by the cynical and sarcastic Ellen Alaunus, a girl he would never have given a second glance had she not been standing at his bedside charged with the task to help him tell the story of his near-death experience. Meanwhile, Gus still has to face the consequences of driving while intoxicated by doing community service under the watchful eye of Phoebe Harris, the one girl who ever turned him down. When King Sayid finally passes away, the young princes are forced to re-evaluate how they represent their kingdom and agree on who will abdicate the throne and who will carry the mantle as King of Madain Saleh. ![]() No, this is not a bookstore. It’s my dining room table. When people ask me, “How many books have you published?” Well, that’s a tough question to answer. I’ve written more books than I’ve published, and I’ve published more books than I’ve written. Let me explain. The first book I wrote (as an adult) was The Cove and that was published in 2016. The next book I wrote was The Farmer’s Daughter, but I waited to publish it until May of 2020. Why? Long story for a different blog post. A few years later I had inspiration for a book called Buxton Peak. After a few days of starting that series I had a complete anxiety attack and confided in a friend about the way I was feeling. I’ll never forget what she said to me that day. The reason I was anxious was because I knew inherently that Buxton Peak was going to change my life. She was right. What started as one book called Buxton Peak quickly broke into a trilogy. Book One was called Who Is Ian Taylor? Book Two was called Center Stage. Book Three was called The End of the Beginning. After publishing the first two books in the trilogy I realized that Ian Taylor had a story in his youth, and I needed to tell it. While writing the prequel I changed and rewrote the third book in the trilogy, and it took on a whole new direction. I thought the series was done. I was wrong… India and Ed needed to tell their story. Many of you probably don’t even realize their short story, Silence from Nashville was published in an anthology called Unspoken Words by LDS Beta Readers. That story is interwoven in Rock Star Redemption Series: The Complete Collection during the section of what readers know as Rock Star Redemption Series Book Five: Forever a Rock Star (originally called Buxton Peak Book Three: The End of the Beginning). Then there was Andy. Sweet, loveable Andy, whose chance meeting in London with a beautiful girl named Vanessa changed the course of the whole band. Their love story had to be told, and it was a passionate tale of tragedy and loss. Their story became Buxton Peak: London Bridges, now known as Rock Star Redemption Series Book Four: Fallen Rock Star. Did you know Ian Taylor is a billionaire? Yeah, I didn’t know that either until the spring of 2018 when a bunch of my author friends were all writing billionaire books; books where the main character is an alpha-male who is a billionaire. My friend, Beth encouraged me to write to this market. I chuckled and shook my head. I’m too busy with all my other books. Then my nineteen-year-old son said, “Mom, you should write a billionaire book.” Well, let me tell you, it’s harder to ignore someone who is standing at your shoulder looking at the screen of your computer with those beautiful innocent blue eyes. He had complete faith in me, and it gave me just that little bit of courage enough to alter Ian’s destiny. I did a lot of research and found that most rock stars are not billionaires. Not even close. But if I took into consideration that Ian Taylor owns the rock band called Buxton Peak and all its net worth, and if he handles his money carefully, he could have a net worth of just over a billion dollars (this was before he started throwing around $20,000 for guitars and then donating them to a worthy cause, and before he spent a small fortune upgrading a youth center at an inner-city church in downtown Nashville, and before he bought the biggest mansion in the greater-Nashville area). So, I took his story that was originally called Buxton Peak Book One: Who Is Ian Taylor? changed it drastically and rebranded it as Billionaire Rock Star Romance: A Buxton Peak Clean Romance. Those two stories are now interwoven in Rock Star Redemption Series Book Two: Billionaire Rock Star. I thought this would be the last book in the Buxton Peak series! Another spin-off story emerged during the time I was compiling and editing The Complete Collection. I collaborated with Australian author, Lara Wynter, who also writes books about rock stars. Her rock band, Infusion Deep, needed an opening act, and my rock band, Buxton Peak needed a mentor. Remember the summer before the guys become headliners, where they open for other bands? Lara and I wrote two books that cover that summer and appropriately named them, Opening Act: Infusion Deep Meets Buxton Peak and Opening Act: Buxton Peak Meets Infusion Deep. I encourage you to join the Buxton Peak Fan Club so you will have front-row seats at that concert tour. Now, when and why did I change the entire series name to Rock Star Redemption Series? While listening to a podcast about author rebranding, I learned that a person can actually re-publish a book or series of books under a new name and ISBNs. If you were interested in reading a book about rock stars, would you search for the term Buxton Peak? Of course not. If you searched for Buxton Peak, chances are you are looking for a non-fiction book about the town of Buxton which is situated within the Peak District National Forest in Derbyshire, United Kingdom. Renaming and rebranding the series has led to increased exposure and sales. So, technically the original five book series became ten books, plus the spin-off stories in collaboration with Lara Wynter, plus I published the series as The Complete Collection, so that’s what? Thirteen books available for purchase, even though it’s really only seven books. See why it’s so hard to define? On the same day I published Billionaire Rock Star Romance: A Buxton Peak Clean Romance, I also published The Man in the Yellow Jaguar, a story that people either love or hate. The main female character falls in love with a man twice her age and then realizes the man she’s actually in love with is her fiancé’s 25-year-old son. Scandalous, I know! I love reality shows, especially The Bachelor / Bachelorette and I always wished the producers would choose a sweet, innocent girl-next-door and make the guys live up to her standards rather than choose one guy, nineteen floozies, and one virgin who they all made fun of. So, I created my own story and chose a sweet, innocent girl who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I named the book Who Wants to Marry a Mormon Girl? and created the Love Letters Series. The guys on the reality show have to write love letters to the girl telling her why they think she should keep them around. The next book in the series came out a few months later and is called Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire Gamer? I haven’t started the third book yet but it will probably be called Who Wants to Marry an Admiral’s Daughter. Next we have my young adult sports romance series. What started out as one book called The Bed and Breakfast, which I eventually decided was a horrible name, became Running to You about a female running prodigy and the guy she falls for. Next in that series was Meet Me at Half Court, about a basketball prodigy. After that I wrote Pass Me the Ball, which is about a female football player, and is probably my favorite book I’ve ever written. It’s also my top selling book every single day even though it has several one-star reviews and the lowest star rating of any of my other books. So weird. Anyway, I started in to Strike Three, You’re Mine but before I got finished writing that one, I penned a quick Christmas book called Basketballs and Mistletoe, which I published before the baseball book. Then I took that whole series into a Complete Collection called All’s Fair in Love and Sports. I thought the next books I’d publish were my Sayid Family Saga, formerly referred to as my Top Secret Project. There are a number of reasons why the project is top secret but I can’t tell you what they are or they wouldn’t be secret anymore. Suffice it to say that I’m not publishing any of them until all of them are completely written and edited and then I’ll rapid release them over the course of about five months. I estimate the series will be over 400,000 words and I’m at about 220,000 words so over halfway there! The most recent book I published is called Combustion and as I’m writing this the book just went live yesterday. I had a premise for the book, jotted it down in a Word document and stuck it in a folder called Random Book Ideas (and yes, there are probably a dozen other potential books in that folder). Well about a month ago I had some serious inspiration for the story and suddenly I had 10,000 words written. Within a few weeks that turned into 40,000 words and now magically I have a book. For some reason I felt compelled to get this story published absolutely as soon as possible. I try to follow promptings like this so I’m pushing to get it out the door. Combustion is my most controversial publication to date. There is a pretty graphic and emotional sexual assault within the book and there is a section of about ten chapters when the reader will need a box of Kleenex. It’s not pretty, but it’s probably my best work. It’s either going to be a hit or fail miserably. I also have a few nature journals, a coloring book, a 407-page watershed management plan and a very cool book called Complete Genealogy and Chronology of The Book of Mormon: A Simple Guide to Understanding The Book of Mormon Family History. Now you know why it’s so difficult for me to answer the question “How many books have you published?” If you’ve read this far you deserve a free book! I’m giving away a few copies of individual books in my Buxton Peak series, since they’re technically out of print. The first ten people who contact me and tell me which single Buxton Peak book you’d like for free, I’ll send you a signed copy. All other copies of Buxton Peak singles are half price (through me, not through Amazon). Buxton Peak: The Complete Collection is still full price. Happy reading, my friends! Sincerely, Julie L. Spencer ![]()
Kaelen is the perfect boyfriend. Smart, athletic, attentive, and willing to keep their secret.
Abigail is the only girl at his high school smarter than him. With his 165 IQ, he can talk to her about anything; science, math, social issues… chemistry. He just can’t date her. Until the day he gives up trying to pretend he isn’t in love and the chemical equation that burns between them gets too hot to ignore. Kaelen learns the hard way what happens when you play with fire, and Abigail pays the price. But she isn’t the only victim that night. Devastated that he hurt the girl he loves, Kaelen pleads guilty and faces the punishment he feels he deserves. Five years and one prison sentence later, Kaelen and Abigail can’t ignore the evidence of that one tragic night, and they can’t ignore the fire that still threatens all their plans for a future together. ![]()
Sometimes our dreams are right before our eyes.
Ashley’s been taught all her life to find a nice Mormon boy and get married in a temple. That’s easier said than done living in rural Michigan, where members of her church are few and far between. Ashley drives each morning to the University of Michigan to study pre-med, while her non-member boyfriend Paul, the boy next door, heads the other direction to attend Michigan State University. Each evening they see each other in the barn to feed the animals and talk of the future. But when Ashley meets Caleb, a nice, med-school student who served as a missionary and is ready to settle down, what starts as casual flirting quickly turns to something more and Ashley fights the undeniable attraction they have. Because she’s still in love with Paul. As she tries to convince herself she’s not ready to get serious with either man, Caleb becomes more involved in the farm life she loves, Paul becomes interested in the gospel she can’t live without, and Ashley realizes she’s going to have a tough choice to make. ![]()
One school, two years, five sports, hundreds of athletes, and loads of teen angst.
High school athletes fall in and out of love like the changing of their jerseys. But some relationships were meant to last beyond high school. Fall in love with Brandon while Sammie runs away with his heart. Experience Christine’s heartbreak as she chooses friendship with Dylan, over an abusive boyfriend. Cry with Amberlyn when Skyler dumps her for her best friend, Jonnie, and cheer with Aiden as he dries Amberlyn’s tears. Laugh with Matt and Trina as one twist of fate accompanies a social media firestorm that brings together every athlete at their school. Extracurricular activities rarely play out as planned, but all’s fair in love and sports. This complete collection is more than a boxed set of the original five-book series; it intertwines the stories chronologically, overlapping relationships and friendships and athletic seasons, and wraps the series in a pretty bow. Or does it? There are lots of athletes at this school. Who knows which sports will show up in future books? Almost a Rock Star: Christian Edgy Contemporary Fiction (Rock Star Redemption Series Book 1)3/21/2020 ![]()
Almost a Rock Star: Christian Edgy Contemporary Fiction (Rock Star Redemption Series Book 1) by Julie L. Spencer.
In the beginning, it was all about the music… until that wasn’t enough. Child Prodigy and devoted musician, Ian Taylor, is torn between the teachings of his youth and the temptations of music and the stage. He forms a rock band with his three best friends, helping them rocket to stardom and all the spoils that come with it. But Ian’s heart is called to serve as a missionary. When he disappears for two years, Buxton Peak falls apart. Returning to center stages brings its own challenges, and life as a rock star is not as easy as it once was. The guys have grown up, and the original dynamic of the band is lost in the distractions of substance abuse and women. Can they pull their lives, and their music, back together? Can Ian learn forgiveness as he fights to become the man God wants him to be? See where it all began… Note from Julie: Thank you for taking the time to get to know the rock stars from Buxton Peak. I hope you love them just as much as I do. Even the bad boys still have good hearts. They are raw, real, flawed, down to earth characters and, although the books are clean, they have been described as edgy. Multiple times. That’s why I included edgy in the title. I want you, the reader, to know what you’re getting. I mean, what could possibly go wrong when you throw together a youth pastor from an inner-city church, an atheist womanizer, a Christian boy who served as a missionary for two years, and two recovering addicts, one of whom experiences a heartbreaking overdose. Cry with them. Hate them. Forgive them. Walk beside them as they fall in love, and sometimes out of love. And let me know what you think. I love feedback from my readers, and I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Julie L. Spencer ***Note*** This book was originally published under the title Buxton Peak: The Early Years. The author gave it a new title and cover to more accurately reflect the story. Billionaire Rock Star: Christian Edgy Contemporary Fiction (Rock Star Redemption Series Book 2)3/21/2020 ![]()
Billionaire Rock Star: Christian Edgy Contemporary Fiction (Rock Star Redemption Series Book 2) by Julie L. Spencer.
Billionaire rock star, Ian Taylor, controls everything in his life… except love. His girlfriend dumped him on New Year’s Eve, and everyone else gets close to him for his money and fame. His best chance at finding love is to meet a girl who has no idea he’s a rock star. Quiet, unassuming Megan wants nothing to do with love. Her goal is to finish her last year of college, focused on her studies. Having a boyfriend can wait until after graduation. When they meet in the most unlikely place for romance, Ian’s ready to win Megan’s hesitant heart, but not ready to reveal his superstar identity. Once she learns the truth, Megan finds that she doesn’t fit into Ian’s world of private jets, backstage parties, and star-crazed girls throwing themselves at him. Can Megan see past Ian’s dishonesty and lifestyle? Or will their love song end before it’s begun? Note from Julie: Thank you for taking the time to get to know the rock stars from Buxton Peak. I hope you love them just as much as I do. Even the bad boys still have good hearts. They are raw, real, flawed, down to earth characters and, although the books are clean, they have been described as edgy. Multiple times. That’s why I included edgy in the title. I want you, the reader, to know what you’re getting. I mean, what could possibly go wrong when you throw together a youth pastor from an inner-city church, an atheist womanizer, a Christian boy who served as a missionary for two years, and two recovering addicts, one of whom experiences a heartbreaking overdose. Cry with them. Hate them. Forgive them. Walk beside them as they fall in love, and sometimes out of love. And let me know what you think. I love feedback from my readers, and I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Julie L. Spencer ***Note*** This book was originally published under the title Billionaire Rock Star Romance: A Buxton Peak Clean Romance, and as Buxton Peak Book One: Who Is Ian Taylor? The author gave it a new title and cover to more accurately reflect the story. International Rock Star: Christian Edgy Contemporary Fiction (Rock Star Redemption Series Book 3)3/21/2020 ![]()
International Rock Star: Christian Edgy Contemporary Fiction (Rock Star Redemption Series Book 3) by Julie L. Spencer.
Center stage can’t last forever. Even a rock band as talented as Buxton Peak can come crashing down. Protecting his bride from cameras and scandals is the least of Ian’s worries. While he is blinded by love, his band is torn apart by distractions, temptations, and drug abuse. Will Ian stand beside his mates, letting their problems become his problems? Can they pull together as a rock band? Or will the pressures of stardom rip them apart? Note from Julie: Thank you for taking the time to get to know the rock stars from Buxton Peak. I hope you love them just as much as I do. Even the bad boys still have good hearts. They are raw, real, flawed, down to earth characters and, although the books are clean, they have been described as edgy. Multiple times. That’s why I included edgy in the title. I want you, the reader, to know what you’re getting. I mean, what could possibly go wrong when you throw together a youth pastor from an inner-city church, an atheist womanizer, a Christian boy who served as a missionary for two years, and two recovering addicts, one of whom experiences a heartbreaking overdose. Cry with them. Hate them. Forgive them. Walk beside them as they fall in love, and sometimes out of love. And let me know what you think. I love feedback from my readers, and I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Julie L. Spencer ***Note*** This book was originally published under the title Buxton Peak Book Two: Center Stage. The author gave it a new title and cover to more accurately reflect the story. |
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