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Grace Halliday has spent her life learning how to be seen.
On stage, she is flawless - a dancer whose life has been built on discipline, precision and the aching need to be seen.
Jax Hale performs too.
But his stage is louder, darker and far less controlled. As the frontman of successful metal band Silence the Serpent, Jax commands a crowd with reckless intensity - chasing something he hasn't been able to find since the death of his twin.
The one thing he cannot seem to find in all the noise is the thing he wants the most:
to be chosen.
She moves through life with precision.
He moves through it like a storm.
When a disciplined dancer and a reckless rock frontman collide in the chaos of London's music scene, their connection threatens to unravel their performance and everything they thought they understood about love, life, art and grief.
But the most dangerous performance of all is the one where no one is pretending.
Grace is forced to face whether being seen is the same as being understood.
Jax must confront the question he's spent years running from:
what happens when someone finally chooses you?
When Jax's world spirals under the weight of fame, addiction and unresolved grief, Grace must decide how close she can stand to someone who burns that brightly.
Because loving someone who lives for the stage means learning the difference between watching them perform...
and watching them fall.
Silence the Serpent is a story about art, grief, addiction and the quiet courage it takes to let someone witness the parts of you that aren't meant for the stage.