Maya, an anxious and deeply introverted teenager whose world begins to change after an unexpected friendship with the quiet and effortlessly talented Zoey. What starts as awkward bass practice sessions slowly turns into something much bigger: the formation of a chaotic garage band alongside Maya's energetic older sister Coco and the wildly unpredictable Mymy. As the group struggles through terrible rehearsals, awkward emotions, inside jokes, growing confidence and the terrifying possibility of performing in front of people, Maya is forced to confront fears she's spent years hiding behind. Blending sharp humour, heartfelt character dynamics and emotionally honest moments, this novel explores friendship, family, music, anxiety and the frightening reality of letting yourself care about something for the first time.

Maya accidentally makes a friend. Which is already suspicious. After a week of things feeling... less terrible, everything falls apart when she finds out it wasn't as random as she thought. Now she's stuck dealing with something much worse than loneliness: people who actually care.

Maya doesn't have friends. She prefers it that way. She's bad with people, and people are bad with her, so it works. But when she accidentally ends up learning bass guitar from Zoey, a girl who talks just as little as she does, something starts to change. Not in a dramatic, life changing way. Just... enough to be noticeable. Which is probably a problem.

After losing her parents at a very young age, Coco is taken far from her homeland and brought to the Netherlands, where she is adopted and given a new life-and a new name: Coco Schoppenboer. For the first time, she has a family of her own. A mother. A father. Two sisters. Everything she ever dreamed of. But dreams can be fragile. When a mysterious Japanese exchange student enters Coco's life, the family she fought so hard to find begins to feel strangely out of reach. And Coco soon discovers that some things are not meant to be shared.