by Jillian Dodd
Contents
Title Page
Copyright page
About this book
Books by Jillian
Tuesday, September 23rd
Thursday, September 25th
Friday, September 26th
Monday, September 29th
Tuesday, September 30th
Wednesday, October 1st
Thursday, October 2nd
Friday, October 3rd
Saturday, October 4th
Monday, October 6th
Tuesday, October 7th
FAME
The Keatyn Chronicles: Book 8
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JILLIAN DODD
Copyright © 2014 by Jillian Dodd
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ISBN: 978-1-940652-32-0
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the eighth book in the addictive Keatyn Chronicles series. Discover a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters set in a glittering celebrity world. Fans of reality TV will devour this pulse-pounding, sexy Hollywood drama.
Follow the lives and loves of those who work at Captive Films:
Riley Johnson — Captive Films’ CEO and millionaire playboy is hot, privileged, and seriously single. He’s got it all—a brand new jet, exotic cars, a luxury penthouse, and a different aspiring actress (or two) in his bed every night. His life is perfect until the only girl he ever loved walks back into it, causing him to wonder if he truly has it all.
Keatyn Douglas — Hollywood’s sweetheart and owner of Captive Films leads a chaotic, glamorous life. But running a successful film studio, writing scripts, and her own acting career leave little time for the things she dreams of, like marrying the man she loves and having babies. When drama starts at work, she may decide to give it all up for life out of the fast lane.
Dawson Johnson — The dark and dreamy marketing consultant joins Captive to escape his past. For the last two years, his sole focus has been on caring for his adorable daughters after tragedy struck their lives. He comes to Captive looking for a fresh start and, if all goes well, he might find a lot more than that in Hollywood.
Knox Daniels — Considered the sexiest man alive by a certain magazine, the sentiment is echoed by the actor’s adoring fans. While romance abounds in the roles he plays, he’s convinced he’ll never find his own happily ever after—until he meets a woman who just might change that.
Shelby Benson — The beautiful cocktail waitress and wanna-be actress struggles to make ends meet. A chance encounter with Riley Johnson is her lucky break and the golden ticket to everything she’s ever dreamed of—fame, power, money, sex, and love.
Written soap-opera style with multiple points of view, you can expect lots of drama, sex, and tabloid-worthy events.
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The USA TODAY bestselling series, The Keatyn Chronicles®
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Kiss Me
Date Me
Love Me
Adore Me
Hate Me
Get Me
Contemporary romance following the live and loves of those who work at Captive Films in Hollywood. Continues The Keatyn Chronicles series.
Fame
Power
Money
Sex
Love
Keatyn Unscripted
Aiden
That Boy Series
Small town contemporary romance series about falling in love with the boy next door.
That Boy
That Wedding
That Baby
That Divorce
The Love Series
Contemporary, standalone romances following the very sexy Crawford family.
Vegas Love
Broken Love
Fake Love
Spy Girl Series
Young adult romance series about a young spy who just might save the world.
The Prince
The Eagle
The Society
The Valiant
Jillian Dodd and Kenzie Harp
Young adult travel romance.
Girl off the Grid
Tuesday, September 23rd
Movie Premiere - Paris
RILEY
I adjust my tie in the mirror, mute my cell phone, and check my watch again. “Are you almost ready, Sh—” Shit, what the fuck is her name? Shell—something. Shell—y, Mi—chelle, Ra—chelle? No. I’m pretty sure it’s Shelly, but I decide to go with Shell, just to be safe. “—ell?”
“I just need a few more seconds! It’s not my fault you kept me in bed for so long, daddy,” her voice shrills.
Which is such a lie, it’s totally her fault.
She was impressed with our beautiful Parisian hotel suite and decided to show her appreciation by sucking my dick then riding me like a cowgirl.
At the time, I didn’t care if I was a little late but, now, as my arrival time looms, I’m getting irritated.
I’m Riley Johnson.
I've got it all.
Brand new jet. Exotic cars. Luxury penthouse. Black card. A different aspiring actress—or two—in my bed every night.
I run Captive Films.
Where we leave you begging for more.
Or, maybe that's just me.
My life is perfect.
No relationships. No distractions.
I’m all business.
Even with the girls I date.
And by date, I mean fuck.
Because that’s all it is to me.
I’ve never been much of a rule follower, except for the one I made for myself a long time ago.
No love. Just sex.
And never more than forty-eight hours with the same girl.
With the flight from L.A. to Paris, I’m nearing sixteen hours with Shelly.
I wait another ten minutes before giving up. “If you don’t come out now, I’m leaving without you.”
She pops open the bathroom door and smiles at me. “Looking this good takes time.”
And, I will admit, she looks damn good.
Her long, red silky dress, with the dangerously plunging neckline barely containing her double D’s, is hugging all her curves. Yes, I made a good choice.
We met a couple days ago at one of the clubs I like to frequent when I mentioned to m
y friend, movie star Knox Daniels, that’d I’d be in Paris for The Keatyn Chronicles Trilogy movie premiere this week.
She slid her ample ass next to me on the couch and told me she would go with me.
I laughed at her, honestly.
I was planning to be here stag because after the premiere I’m attending a fashion show. One of Keatyn’s little sisters, who at sixteen isn’t so little anymore, will be walking the catwalk. And then it’s to a party filled with some of my favorite kind of people.
Models.
“What do you think?” she asks, spinning in a circle that causes a boob to pop out of her dress.
“Didn’t you tape those things in?” I ask, horrified. “That can’t happen on the red carpet.”
Keatyn would kill me.
Shell-whatever looks down and goes, “Whoopsie!” She shoves the offending boob back in place while chomping on a piece of gum.
Okay, so maybe she wasn’t the best choice.
“Spit out the gum,” I say.
She slides up to me and cups the front of my pants with her hand. “Why? Is there something you’d rather I have in my mouth?”
“Maybe in the limo,” I tell her and drag her out to the waiting car.
Once we’re tucked into the backseat, she reminds me why I brought her.
With her very talented mouth.
We survive the red carpet walk and subsequent interviews without any nipple slips. After joining Keatyn and Aiden, her long time beau, we are seated in the ornate theater.
The Keatyn Chronicles movies are about Keatyn Douglas’ real life, when at seventeen, the daughter of famous actress Abby Johnston, was almost kidnapped by a stalker and was sent to an East Coast boarding school—under an assumed name—for her safety. Since the boarding school is where Keatyn and I became friends, I get to see some of my own life unfolding on the screen before me. I watch the day we met. It was Eastbrooke’s New Student Orientation. I was sitting next to Dallas McMahon, who is now Captive Films’ Chief Legal Counsel and a partial owner. We were already checking her out before she marched in our direction. With her long blonde hair, tan skin, and killer body, it’s safe to assume all the guys were doing the same. It shocked the hell out of us when she marched up the bleachers—wearing a dress and cowboy boots—and sat down between us.
I chuckle watching the three of us sneaking out of our dorms after curfew to smoke and talk.
Then I get lost in the rest of the movie.
Keatyn showing up at my dorm room in tears when my older brother, Dawson, dumped her for his ex-girlfriend.
The three of us shooting a naughty music video to get back at him.
And, then, the part I can’t bear to watch.
If only I could turn off my ears, then I wouldn’t have to relive how crazy I was about Ariela Ross.
In this scene, we’re in my dorm room.
I keep telling Keatyn how pretty Ariela is. How I’m scared to text her after hanging out with her the night before. Keatyn telling me she thought she had a boyfriend at home, but I didn’t care. I was here. He wasn’t. And I was freaking Riley Johnson. She was so pretty. A cheerleader with dark brown hair, gorgeous eyes, and a perfect body.
I had no idea at the time that I would fall totally and completely in love with her.
Or that she would break my heart.
Thank god, that’s not in the movie. It was bad enough that I included a photo at the end showing the real Keatyn and Aiden with the cast and crew of A Day at the Lake 2. Keatyn’s stalker was obsessed with her mom’s first movie, the cult classic, A Day at the Lake. Because of Keatyn’s resemblance to her mother, he wanted to remake it with Keatyn. And while you’d have to watch the movie or read the books we just released to understand it all, Keatyn managed to pull off a hostile takeover of the stalker’s movie production company. At seventeen, she was named Chairman of the Board of what would become Captive Films.
It’s hard to believe that my career as a director, producer, and CEO started with a friendship and a music video. The naughty video we did to make my brother mad turned out so well that when Keatyn’s childhood friend, Damian Moran, needed a music video made in a few days, she suggested me. I didn’t really have a clue what I was doing, but went with my gut. That video, and the fact that Keatyn looked damn hot in it, took his band, Twisted Dreams, to the top of the charts and I went on to produce many more videos. The summer before our senior year, Keatyn and I teamed up to make our first movie, the remake of A Day at the Lake that Captive Films owned the rights to. With Keatyn’s connections, her acting ability, and my direction, we had our company’s first hit.
In the eleven years since then, Keatyn’s become one of today’s hottest actresses and together we’ve built Captive Films into what it is now. A multi-billion dollar company.
Keatyn is sitting in front of me with Aiden. Her head is on his shoulder and, knowing her, she’s crying as she relives their love story.
Little does she know, he’s going to ask her to marry him tonight.
Movie Premiere - Paris
KEATYN
Aiden puts his hand on my knee and whispers to me as The End rolls across the movie screen in front of us. “It’s really hard to believe we’ve been together for over ten years.”
I give him a kiss thinking how crazy it is that a silly wish I made on the moon led me to the love of my life. It’s even crazier to think we just watched the story of that love on the big screen with other people portraying us.
The audience is clapping and cheering for their favorite characters as the credits scroll across the screen.
I think the audience feels the same way we do.
We can’t believe it’s over.
It feels like an era has ended. Three movies in three and half years.
All produced by Riley and me.
And all based on my life.
The biggest cheers, though, are saved for the actors who played Keatyn and Aiden.
I clap loudly and whistle, thrilled at how much everyone loves them together. In the first movie, most viewers were torn between all the cute boys. It’s kind of funny to me that most moviegoers didn’t realize it was based on a real life couple. They’ve been heating up social media sites and online forums claiming that if Keatyn didn’t choose Aiden they would all die. Millions wore four-leaf clover T-shirts and tweeted #ifly. It’s hard to believe his simple sweet gestures of giving me a four-leaf clover for luck before my dance team tryouts and texting me ifly—which stands for I fucking love you—have affected so many people.
Next on the screen is a musical montage of our real life together. Although I wasn’t sure about including shots of us, Riley offered me two options. He was either going to make up a happily ever after for the movie, or I was going to show that the real Keatyn and Aiden got one of their own. He said people would love the movie’s ending, where I took Aiden to see the land I bought him when I thought I wouldn’t survive my showdown with the stalker. The deed was supposed to go to him along with a note that told him how I felt—after I died. He had told me about his dream to own a vineyard that would produce a wine dedicated to raising money for worthy charities. I wanted him to live out that dream, with or without me. But I survived. And I took him up on the hill overlooking the ocean on one side and the rows of grapes on the other and gave it to him myself. We were both crying when he said that we were going to build our mansion of love in this very spot. I laughed and told him that was good, because I brought the dirt. You’d have to see the movie to understand, but—long story, short—the dirt symbolized building a strong foundation for our relationship. That was the last scene in the movie, and it really was the perfect happy ending.
But Riley felt that the audience would want more. They’d want to know if our love, that seemed so strong at eighteen, survived. He threatened to add a scene where a college-aged Aiden asks Keatyn to marry him.
Aiden put his foot down, since we aren’t engaged in real life.
We’ve been together since
the dirt scene.
There is no relationship status.
We just are.
And we’re happy.
And that’s all that matters.
At least, it did.
Until this morning.
When a little pink line appeared on a stick.
One little pink line that's going to change both our lives.
Suddenly, I want what we keep saying we’re too busy for. The fairytale wedding. The ribbons blowing in the trees. Twinkle lights to dance under.
We settled, instead, on a photo montage of our real life together. Showing that we are still together. Still living our happily ever after.
Photos of us flash by on the screen.
Being crowned Homecoming King and Queen.
Aiden being silly and carrying me over the threshold of our senior prom.
Aiden scooping me up into his arms and twirling me around on our high school graduation day.
Us with the cast and crew who worked on A Day at the Lake 2.
Aiden escorting me to the Academy Awards.
The two of us dancing cheek-to-cheek at the lavish rock star wedding of Damian, and Aiden’s sister, Peyton.
Then there are numerous travel photos of us. We started a trend with the hashtag #SunsetSelfies and are working toward watching a million sunsets together.
“What’d ya think?” Riley asks as I stand up.
I turn around and hug him, ignoring the blonde attached to his side.
“I know I fought you on adding the parts from your and Aiden’s point of view. But, you were right. The car chase scene where you and Aiden crashed into the stalker’s van after he kidnapped me and Dallas was amazing.” I hug him again as my eyes tear up. “I’ll never be able to repay either of you for rescuing us.”