Random

I never intended to pick up a naked hitchhiker wearing nothing but a guitar. But when you spot a blonde, tanned, sculpted man with a gorgeous smile and his thumb poking up, practically begging you to stop – you stop. I never thought I’d be staring into the bright blue eyes of Trevor Connor, lead singer of Random Acts of Crazy, an indie rock star I followed like a slobbering fangirl. How he came to be nude and lost six hundred miles from home is quite the tale, but how we fell in love is even more unreal.

When his best friend, Joe Ross – a man who makes Calvin Klein models look like Shrek – drove eleven hours through the night to rescue him, it got real complicated. It’s one thing to like two different guys and be torn. What do you do when maybe, just maybe, you don’t have to choose?

The band’s drummer, Sam, ran into his high school sweetheart Amy four years after a debate that had higher stakes than either imagined. Guitar player Liam showed up to strip at a bachelorette party only to discover his ex-girlfriend Charlotte in the crowd – and his own mother groping him from behind. Each member of Random Acts of Crazy has a love story. Each one involves trust, second chances, and a road trip or two.

As for me? My mama went and got engaged, and I had to head home with my boyfriend. Um – which one? I’ve been telling Trevor and Joe to be honest about our relationship, and now the tables are turned on me. I broke up with them and ran back to my trailer park in Ohio. I never dreamed they’d follow me and claim me for their own.

We went to LA when the band’s bass player got injured in an unfortunate incident involving a gerbil. We went to Vegas for a big gig and I gambled away all the band’s money. We played Truth or Dare on Christmas Eve, which got me arrested for alleged prostitution and bailed out by Joe’s mother. And somewhere along the way, a pregnancy test turned positive. Turns out I didn’t know I was pregnant for nine and a half months.

These things do happen. To me.

The Random series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia Kent is an eleven-book romantic comedy saga following the members of up-and-coming rock band Random Acts of Crazy and the wild, unconventional love stories that surround them. It begins when small-town Ohio girl Darla picks up a naked hitchhiker wearing only a guitar and discovers he’s a rock star – and that his bandmate might be the other love of her life.

Each book spotlights a different band member’s romance while weaving a continuous story of friendship, music, and love in all its unexpected forms. Featuring ménage romance, second-chance love stories, road trips from hell, holiday disasters, and a chicken named Mavis who keeps showing up at the most inconvenient moments, the series delivers laugh-out-loud humor, genuine heart, and the kind of found family that makes readers never want to leave the world of the band.

From rural Ohio trailer parks to Boston stages to Vegas showrooms, this series celebrates the truth that love doesn’t follow rules, people deserve second chances, and sometimes the craziest acts turn out to be the most real.