THE BLACKLISTED (The Last Look Series #2) by Timarie Everett | Cover & Excerpt Reveal
September 3, 2025
THE BLACKLISTED
The Last Look Series #2
by Timarie Everett
Cover & Excerpt Reveal
Release Date: October 1, 2025
Model & Creative Collaborator: Louie Tomassi
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Celebrity romance, second chance, defiant love, emotional scars, fated lovers
Synopsis
Author Valentina Abati is living out a nightmare worse than anything she’s ever written. Valentina not only has to come to terms with her world crashing down around her, but also has to live with the accusations that her boyfriend, Hollywood producer Louie DelloRusso, is responsible for it.
Meanwhile, Louie is willing to lose his reputation, his life’s work and powerful status for what truly matters to him; Valentina. He will burn it all to the ground if he has to.
Facing a cynical and overly critical world, Valentina and Louie must confront their pasts to survive their present if they want any chance at a future. Despite their primal attraction to each other, outside forces are determined to not just end their relationship, but to end them entirely.
In the movies Louie produces and the books Valentina writes, true love always prevails. Reality, however, tells a different story. How can these two find their way back together after being Blacklisted?
“In Hollywood reputation is everything. Except when your everything is her.”
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Excerpt
A day later, and many, many, many meetings with my dad, legal team, and Boston police and detectives, I’m a shell of the man I was a week ago. I sit on the sofa of my leased apartment, confined to these four walls thanks to a pandemic and the herd of bloodthirsty paparazzi staked out in front of the building.
Rome is on my phone reading me the riot act for not answering him for days.
“This ain’t the big Lou I know and love. Come on, man. I get the severity of the situation, but you cannot stay in the fetal position over this. Don’t you dare let these motherfuckers tell the story of who you are. You show the world who Louie DelloRusso is. You always have.”
He’s trying to infuse some fight back into me. It isn’t working this time.
“Rome, I don’t give a shit about anything except Valentina. You don’t get that this girl is my entire world. Lies and jealousy are causing me to lose her. I can’t just get over that. I don’t give a fuck about people’s opinions of me. I only care about her,” I admit to my best friend.
I hear him sigh.
“Lou, you know I love V, but if she’s sitting there after knowing you like she does and can believe all this bullshit about you, maybe she isn’t the one.”
I snap back, “Are you fucking insane? Are you hearing yourself right now? You know she was made for me. I was ready to propose when all this shit happened. She loves me, I know she does, but she’s being told lies by those fucking corrupt cops while her brother is barely hanging on to his life. I just need to talk to her. I need her to understand.”
“Lou, all I understand is you’re being represented in the media as a fucking pariah. I get you love Valentina and want to explain everything, but you also have to be practical. You can’t lose your woman and your career.”
Rome tries to talk sense into me, but everything he’s saying sounds like an insult to me.
“I gotta go. You don’t get it. I don’t give a fuck about my career right now,” I fire back.
“Lou, you better care. You’re being blacklisted in this town, and even if you don’t care, it will affect your entire family.”
He continues to defend his point, which in my heart I know is valid.
“We’ll talk soon,” I say, and end the call before he has a chance to launch into another sermon.
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About the Author
Timarie Everett is a best-selling novelist from Boston, Massachusetts. She has authored The Finish Line Series, which is romantic suspense trilogy.
Timarie spent her early years as a singer/song writer, while simultaneously developing her business acumen. In 2015, Timarie began her professional literary career.
Nothing is more important to Timarie than her family and friends. She is a fierce social activist that strongly fights for gender, racial and orientation equity. She promotes independent thinking and positivity.
Connect with Timarie
Website: www.TimarieIsWriting.com
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