MikeBradstreet
New York City, 1986.
The streets are loud, the clubs are hotter, and nobody gets out clean.
Leon O'Brien screams his way through basement shows with his punk band, Working Class Sinners, trying to outrun grief, cops, and a city that wants him either quiet or broken. Music is the only thing keeping him upright. The streets are everything else, trying to knock him down.
Gwen Cabot doesn't belong in his world.
She's polished, controlled, walking runways by day and slipping into punk clubs by night-drawn to something raw she can't name. When their paths collide, it sparks more than attraction. It's a collision of class, danger, and desire, neither of them can walk away from.
As tensions rise between punks, cops, and skinheads, the line between love and survival blurs. Every show is a risk. Every alley could end it all. And some hearts burn brightest just before they break.
A gritty 80s punk romance about music, violence, belonging, and choosing who you are when the city pushes back.