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A nerdy Black woman in her thirties and a reclusive British rockstar twice her age were never supposed to make sense. Until they do.

Poppy Thomas is the kind of nerdy Black millennial who can write about cartoons and pop culture nonsense without blinking. None of it gets her taken seriously. She is frustrated and still dreaming of writing something that actually matters.

At a crowded coffee shop, Poppy offers an anxious older man the empty chair at her table. He seems ordinary at first. Quiet. A little out of place. But beneath the nerves, there is an unexpected charm. A warmth that catches her off guard. And when he speaks, his low voice, touched with a British accent, lingers longer than it should.

There is something about him she cannot quite place.

Not at first.

Days later, the realization hits.

Summoner.
The vanished rockstar she grew up on, obsessed over, even wrote fanfiction about.

He was everywhere once. Sixty million records sold. Then he disappeared.

An interview with him could change everything.

He shuts her down flat.

But Poppy can't let it go. She keeps showing up. Again and again. What starts as curiosity turns into fixation. And somewhere along the way, the story she wanted starts to matter less than the man in front of her.

Poppy, living with depression, finds an unexpected steadiness in him. Summoner, worn down by fame and anxiety, begins to step back into the world he left behind.

Falling for each other is the easy part.

Loving each other means facing family, friends, and a world with opinions, and deciding if they are willing to endure it for a love that refuses to stay small.

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Raven Dexter’s world is dictated by the rhythms of behind-the-scenes stage life—the call of a cue, the rise and fall of spot lights, and the constant buzz of sound systems and instruments. She’s the quiet pulse behind every flawless show, the one who makes sure the performers are paid and the crowd gets their money’s worth. Love has always been a distant melody. Something meant for other people, other lives.

Knox Knight is trying to claw his way back to life after everything went wrong. Still recovering, he steps back onto the stage, unsure if he belongs in the spotlight anymore. Even as they clash, Raven quickly discovers that behind the reckless reputation is a man weighed down by grief, guilt, and the fear that it’s already too late for him.

Forced together under the harsh glare and attention of center stage, something builds between them. Slow at first, like the opening bars of a song, then louder, fuller, dynamic. Impossible to ignore.

But not everyone is rooting for their harmony.

As the music between them crescendos, so does the danger around them. Because some people don’t just listen to the music. They want to control how it ends. For Raven and Knox, the final note might not fade out—it might be cut short.

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