Promised Intent by Cadence Keys book cover

Rapturous Intent Rockstars Book 4

Promised Intent

by Cadence Keys

A steamy fake-dating rockstar romance where a recovering bassist asks his estranged childhood best friend—now his tour manager—to pretend they’re together on his first sober tour.

He needs a fake girlfriend for his first sober tour. She’s the childhood best friend who once promised to be there for him—and the woman he can’t afford to lose again.

Where to get this book

Tropes

  • Fake dating
  • Estranged childhood best friends to lovers
  • Forced proximity on tour
  • Second chance at friendship and love
  • Found family

About the book

She once made me a promise and now I intend to hold her to it. 

I never meant for my life to turn out this way–to be the guy who ruins everything he touches and sacrifices everything and everyone who matters to him for my next high. It’s been two years since I hit rock bottom, but my band family still hovers over me like I’m a burden they have to bear, and I’m sick of it.

So when my long lost childhood best friend, Melrose Fletcher, becomes our new tour manager, an idea forms in my head. One that’ll serve to get the guys to relax around me, and will also keep me accountable on tour.

I’m certain she’ll shut me down when I proposition her to be my fake girlfriend on the tour, so I pull the only card I’ve got left–the promise we made to each other before our worlds, and our friendship, fell apart.

What started out as pretend now feels like the realest thing I’ve ever experienced. But does a guy like me really deserve a happily ever after?

Promised Intent is a steamy ex-childhood best friends/fake relationship rock star romance. It is the final book in the Rapturous Intent Series.

Content advisory: Past drug abuse and substance-use recovery; drug overdoses; suicide; parental/childhood emotional abuse; mental-health themes.

Contemporary romance · Rockstar / celebrity romance

Why you may love it

Kasen Stone + Melrose Fletcher

Set in Los Angeles / touring venues and bus / Texas childhood history / Seattle background and tour stop

Kasen Stone is sober, but facing his first tour without drugs leaves him frightened and frustrated by his bandmates’ constant concern. Their new tour manager, Melrose Fletcher, is the childhood best friend he lost touch with years ago. Calling on their old promise to be there for each other, he asks her to fake a relationship for the tour, hoping to reassure the band and have someone he trusts nearby. Mel agrees with firm boundaries and a requirement that he attend recovery meetings, but pretending to be together reopens feelings and hurts neither has resolved.

For readers who want fake dating on a tour bus, estranged childhood best friends, and a guarded tour manager matched with the rock star who still remembers their promise. Their pretend relationship becomes a chance to rebuild trust, face old wounds, and choose each other as the people they are now.

Reading order: Series finale; reading the preceding books is recommended for the band's continuing story.