Because Ilsa Madden-Mills fell in love with her beautifully flawed characters inVery Wicked Things, she penned Very Wicked Beginnings as a prequel novella to the book, featuring the story of football star Cuba Hudson and ballerina Dovey Beckham.
Since
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, all May proceeds from the sale of
the novella will be donated to The Keith Milano Memorial Fund which benefits the American
Foundation for Suicide
Prevention (AFSP).
www.afsp.org 
Title: Very Wicked
Beginnings
Series: Briarcrest Academy #1.5, a
prequel novella to Very Wicked
Things
Release: May
13th
Author: Ilsa
Madden-Mills
Cover: Photography by
Toski Covey
Graphics: Sommer
Stein at Perfect Pear Creative
Covers
Model: Tanner
Belcher
*Synopsis*
Girls say I’m a
walking, talking sex god. Guys call
me Hollywood because my life is golden.
It’s not.
But, ESPN did rank me
as a four star recruit, calling me one of the best defensive
players since
Briarcrest Academy opened its esteemed doors. So yeah, with
football and a
stellar GPA, my future seemed
good.
Then Dovey Beckham
shows up in her short skirts and ballet shoes. Driving me
insane. Making me
want to beg for her attention.
But that wouldn’t
happen, because Cuba Hudson didn’t beg for
anything.
She walked around BA
like she owned the place, and most days she looked right
through me…the one
girl I couldn’t
have.
So, of course, I made
it my mission to claim her, to put her notch on my
bedpost.
Because no girl can
resist the Heartbreaker of BA.
But I never planned
on destroying her.
I never planned on
wrecking the one thing that could save me.
Welcome to Briarcrest
Academy, where wicked love
begins…and ends.
*Charity
Information*
The Keith Milano Memorial Fund was established to help raise awareness
about the
devastating and deadly disease that is mental illness.
Keith’s spirit and
laughter is kept alive through our efforts to increase
awareness about mental
illness and to raise money for education and imperative
research. Keith often
struggled with society’s perception of mental illness.
Our hope is that
by having the strength to say that Keith was “Bipolar” we
can strip away the
stigma and help others to be more open about their
disease.
www.keithmilano.org
The Keith Milano Memorial Fund benefits the American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention
(AFSP).
www.afsp.org
AFSP is the only national not-for-profit organization exclusively dedicated to
understanding and
preventing suicide through research and education, and to
reaching out to
people with mood disorders and those affected by
suicide.
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Very Wicked
Things
(Briarcrest Academy #2):
*Synopsis*
Ballerina Dovey
Beckham is a scholarship student at Briarcrest Academy,
determined to prove
she’s more than just a girl with the wrong pedigree. She
does whatever it takes
to succeed in her endgame, even if it means surrendering her
body but never her
heart.
Until the
day she meets him, and he rips apart
all her well-laid plans. Suddenly, the girl everyone thought
unbreakable might
just shatter.
Cuba
“Hollywood” Hudson is rich, spoiled, and a
star football player. With his fast cars and superficial
girlfriends, he lives
the high-life, hiding his secrets from the
world.
Until the
day he meets her, and she offers him
something he’s never tasted…love.
But once in
a lifetime kind of love doesn’t come
easy…especially when dirty money, past sins, and old flames
threaten the very
fabric of their
lives.
Welcome to Briarcrest Academy, where sometimes,
o
nly the wicked
survive.
Excerpt for Very Wicked Things
Book #2 of the Briarcrest Academy
Series
by Ilsa
Madden-Mills
I got out of the shower and dressed hurriedly, anxious to get back to
Cuba.
The door opened, and like he did it every single day, he stepped inside the steamy
bathroom.
“Think I need a shower, too,” he said, his fingers easing off his football practice
shirt.
What?
Now?
Trying to play it cool and failing miserably, I moved my eyes off his naked chest
and checked out his
track pants and the obvious bulge he sported.
Oh.
Did his lower body match the rest of him? Was it all sinewy
muscle and big?
Just, yeah. That thought got stuck in my head and went round and
round.
“You staying?” he asked, a grin
working his face. Pleased at my open admiration,
probably.
“No,” I said, but made no move to go. ‘Cause I had no shame when it came to
catching a glimpse of his muscular
body.
“Good,” he said, his smile
broadening.
He pivoted to turn on the shower, and my eyes betrayed me again, admiring the
muscles in his back,
checking out how they twitched and rippled when he moved.
Football and rowing
had been good to him. My fingers itched to know how they’d
feel underneath my
hands. Which was stupid because we had nothing in common.
Not a rich Highland
Park boy and a poor girl from Ratcliffe.
And most importantly, he was a player, not to be
trusted.
He hooked his thumbs into his pants, paused a moment—maybe waiting to see if I’d
run from the room?—but when I didn’t budge, he slid them and his underwear off. My
mouth opened. Cuba
Hudson, the most popular guy at Briarcrest was standing
right in front of me,
naked and beautiful. And like the cocky bastard he was, he
posed for me, his big-ass
biceps and chiseled abs making me vibrate all over. Need for
him slammed into
me.
Did I say he was hot?
Well, I was wrong.
He was off-the-charts, no-holds-barred, freaking going
make-me-lose-my-mind-right-there delicious. The ultimate man-candy, the kind I knew to stay away from, yet
here I was, ogling
him.
“Still leaving?” he asked
huskily.
“Any minute,” I said in a weak voice, backing up to the wall and propping myself up.
“Just chillin’.
Shower wore me out. I might need to hold this wall up for a
sec.”
“I want you to stay,” he said, eyes at half-mast, glowing with
heat.
“Why?” I said, aching to touch him. But that was crazy. I was a virgin, and I
didn’t know jack about
touching a guy’s you-know-what.
“Look at me,
Dovey.”
I tore my eyes from his
manhood,
blushing. His eyes burned. “There’s
a sense of urgency in my head. Like our time is
limited.”
I nodded. Yeah, same here. “And, I’ll be honest, I
don’t want to rush you, but I’m dying to sink into you. I
want to set you on
fire with need for me.” He ghosted his hands over the steel
rod between his
legs. Once, twice, and—holy shizzle, he didn’t stop.
My chest rose faster and faster, and I tried to chill-out, but I couldn’t.
He lowered his voice. “Kiss me again,
Dovey.”
Oh. “That’s a terrible idea, Cuba. Cause you’re naked, and I’m turned on because
you’re naked. And
you’re touching yourself. And you’re naked.” I sucked in a sharp breath. “Not a good
combo. Odds are we’ll end up in that shower together or back in your bed doing the
double-backed monster.”
“Then join me in the shower. I’ll be good. For you.” He arched his back, his
hands still doing that
back and forth that was driving me
insane.
Liar, liar, pants on fire, I thought. No way he would he be
good.
Because he was the Heartbreaker of Briarcrest Academy. And one wicked
boy.
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*About the Author*
Bio:
Ilsa Madden-Mills writes about strong heroines and
sexy alpha
males that
sometimes
you just want to slap. She spends her days with two small
kids, a neurotic cat, and her Viking husband. She collects
magnets and rarely
cooks except to bake her own pretzels. When
she’s not typing away at a story, you can find her drinking
too much Diet Coke,
jamming out to Pink, or checking on her carefully maintained
chocolate stash.
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hear from fans and
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