SUMMER FEVER

"𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎: 𝐀 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐓 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄, 𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓, 𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐘."

Ike Wallace was the voice of Riot Juliet, a band that burned brighter-and faster-than anyone could have predicted. At sixteen, he was a generational icon, spilling his reckless heart into songs that defined rebellion. By nineteen, he was another headline: Rockstar Overdose at Final Tour Stop.

Two years later, Ike lives in exile on a forgotten stretch of Washington coastline, a shadow of the chaos he once embodied. His guitar gathers dust, his past is a wound he refuses to touch, and the name Riot Juliet is just another ghost haunting his days.

Blake Brancalion doesn't want this story. At twenty, she's already spent years dodging her late father's journalistic legacy, desperate to prove she's more than his echo. But when her professor assigns her to profile Ike Wallace, the washed-up prince of pop-punk, she sees an opportunity she can't ignore.

Blake convinces Ike to let her shadow him for several months to write an in-depth feature about the aftermath of young fame. He reluctantly agrees under two conditions:

She doesn't ask him to play music.
She stays out of his past relationships-particularly with his bandmates.