The Silent Strings

Julian Blackwood was born to rule the stage.

A prodigy. A god with a bow and strings.

Until the night he lost it all-his hand, his music, and his will to live.

Now he's a fallen king. Brooding. Cruel. Addicted to whiskey, women, and pushing away anyone who dares to care. His family has abandoned him. His agent wants to control him. The press wants to destroy him. And Julian? He doesn't want anything.

Enter Amelia Grace.

She's too young. Too innocent. Too stubborn to back down. A music therapist who believes she can heal even the deepest wounds. Hired as his last chance, Amelia finds herself standing toe-to-toe with the man everyone has warned her about: dangerously beautiful, broken beyond repair.

He doesn't want her help.

He doesn't want her hope.

But when she touches his silence with her song, when she dares to sit at her piano and see the man beneath the scars . . . his world begins to shift.

What starts as a battle of wills becomes something far more dangerous:

An all-consuming connection. A forbidden pull. A duet that neither of them can resist.

But loving a man like Julian means risking everything-her career, her heart, even her friends and family. And for Julian, trusting Amelia means facing the darkness he's hidden all his life.