Burned by the Spotlight

Reagan Porter's quiet, carefree life was abruptly taken away from her when she was reluctantly thrust into the spotlight at twelve by the overnight success of her brothers' band. Her best friend, Ada, was the only one she felt safe and herself around. Then even Ada was taken away when one of Reagan's brothers started dating her and lured her into the seedy world of fame and stardom ending in Ada's tragic overdose.

Afraid to face the pain, she has painted herself in a coat of 'don't give a damn' and looks for answers at the bottom of whiskey bottles. Turning into a nomadic chameleon, she's gone from city to city, job to job for the last three years- never staying long enough to form any meaningful connections. She has gotten good at this routine, but this time is different. Now she loves her job as a political campaign consultant and her friends in D.C are starting to grow on her and it's getting harder and harder for her to imagine herself anywhere else, which is usually when the itch to scram.

Then she meets two people that will challenge her more than ever before when she takes a temporary job as a campaign consultant for the race of governor of Georgia. After a chance encounter with Hayes Abernathy in D.C, the drummer of her brothers' rival band who's on a 3-month hiatus, he decides to tag along for the hell of it. Then there's the troubled daughter of her candidate, Destiny, whose personality has an uncanny resemblance to Ada's.

The closer she gets to these two and the closer the tension in her family comes to a boiling point, the stronger her urge to run away again grows.