A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that
they’ll do anything to shake in the next sparkling magical book from the New York Times
bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and A Novel Love Story. Named a Most Anticipated
book of Summer 2025 by People ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Brit + Co ∙ Yahoo! Life ∙ and more! Joni Lark
has a secret. She’s one of the most coveted songwriters in LA and yet she can’t write. There’s
an emptiness inside her and nothing seems to fill it. When she returns to her hometown of
Vienna Shores North Carolina she hopes that the sand the surf and the concerts at The
Revelry her family’s music venue will spark inspiration. But when Joni gets there nothing is
how she left it. Her best friend is hiding something her mother’s memories are fading fast
and The Revelry is closing. How can Joni write when her world is leaving her behind? Until
she hears it. A melody in her head lyric-less and half-formed and an alluring and addictive
voice to go with it—belonging apparently to a wry musician with an emptiness of his own.
Surely he’s a figment of Joni’s overworked imagination. Then a very real man shows up in
Vienna Shores. He’s arrogant and guarded—nothing like the sweet funny voice in Joni’s head—and
he has a plan for breaking their inconvenient telepathic connection: finish the song haunting
them both and hope they don’t risk their hearts—or their secrets—in the process. Because that
melody the one drawing them together . . . what if it’s there for a reason?
