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Mia has everything she's ever wanted.
As the golden center of the world's fastest-rising girl group, she lives beneath dazzling spotlights, performs for millions of devoted fans, and is only one victory away from winning the country's biggest talent competition-and the chance to open for a global superstar. Focused, ambitious, and adored by everyone, Mia has never had time for love. Despite singing about romance night after night, she's never truly believed in it.
Renée couldn't be more different.
As the guitarist and lead vocalist of a rising pop-punk band, she pours her heart into every song she writes. Quiet, passionate, and fiercely protective of her music, Renée despises everything she thinks Mia's group represents: manufactured pop, flashy performances, and an industry that seems determined to bury artists like her beneath glitter and algorithms.
When their bands become the top two contenders in a high-stakes televised talent competition, the rivalry between them quickly becomes legendary. Fans pick sides. The media fuels the drama. Every encounter ends in an argument.
But behind the cameras, something unexpected begins to grow.
The more Mia and Renée learn about each other, the more the image they've built of their rival starts to crack. Beneath Renée's sharp words is a girl struggling to be heard. Beneath Mia's perfect smile is someone carrying the weight of impossible expectations.
As competition turns into friendship-and friendship into something neither of them saw coming-they find themselves caught between their dreams and their hearts.
Because falling for your rival is dangerous.
Falling for the girl everyone expects you to beat might be impossible.
And with only one band able to win, Mia and Renée must decide whether love is worth risking everything they've worked for.
In a battle between pop and punk, ambition and passion, enemies and lovers, the hardest thing to face might be the music they create together.