Bad Reputation

A Dark 1980s Rock Romantic Suspense Novel

By: Nora Young

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A pastor’s daughter. A rising rock star. A love song that becomes evidence.

Los Angeles, 1985. Eden Hale has spent her life being good: the obedient daughter of a powerful Valley pastor, the girl who sings in church, the girl who knows exactly how much of herself to hide. Then she sneaks onto the Sunset Strip and sees Dane Cross perform with Vicious Grace.

Dane is twenty-three, beautiful, dangerous, and already halfway to becoming a myth. To Eden, he feels like freedom. To everyone else, he looks like a warning.

What begins with midnight phone calls, secret tapes, and songs written just for her soon becomes something darker. Dane does not just want Eden’s love. He wants her attention, her silence, her fear, and her story. As his band rises from club stages to radio fame, Eden begins to realize the songs that made him famous may also be confessions.

When another girl disappears after a record-release party, Eden is forced to choose between the fantasy that saved her from one cage and the truth that may destroy another.

Set against the neon, smoke, and danger of the 1980s Sunset Strip, Bad Reputation is a dark romantic suspense novel about obsession, fame, coercive control, and the terrible cost of being turned into someone else’s muse.

Content note: This novel contains mature themes, including coercive control, toxic attachment, drug and alcohol use, violence, stalking/obsessive behavior, religious control, and references to a missing woman.