The Encore's Crown

She built her following by knowing exactly how to be watched. 

He should have known better than to look.

Natalia Sawadzka is twenty-three and gorgeous with the world at her red-bottomed feet. The razor-tongued blonde is an expert at turning her life into content as a rising influencer. Online, she knows how to make thousands of strangers feel like they've been invited close enough to touch.

Bassist for The Riven Altar, Kiri Chhim has spent at least twenty of his thirty-six years making bad decisions look enticing. He's charm with a bassline, trouble with tattoos, and the man who used to make Natalia's face and phone light up, until he was forced to step away from her or risk losing the band.

Natalia joins their Asia tour, to be there for her sister, whose romantic life is tangled with the band's frontman. But while she's sharing space with her almost-flame, she plans to make it as torturous as possible, using every curve and smile at her disposal.

A year has passed since they last connected, but now Natalia is impossible to ignore. She's on Kiri's tour bus, at his shows, and is getting under his skin. She wants answers. Kiri wants distance. Neither know their lives are about to change, forever.

And backstage, where the lights can't reach, secrets are easy to hide.