In 1955, sixteen year old Dahlia Heart just moved from the deep south of Georgia and moved to the west in Salt Lake City, Utah with her widowed mother. She starts at a new high school where she's a sophomore. There she meets a particular greaser named Vinnie Rives, who is also sixteen, and in the same grade as she's in. Soon, she starts to grow attach to him, but isn't sure if he feels the same way.
Vinnie Rives is a juvenile delinquent who loves to smoke, drink, do drag races and mess with cops. With his parents dead and living with his aunt and older brother Dale, he's having some difficult time in trying to stay out of trouble. He, his brother and their two other greaser friends go to the same school. When he meets Dahlia, he starts growing feelings towards her, but he's afraid that he'll never make her happy with the life he lives in.
Will love bloom between these two teenagers who are from different sides of the tracks?
// BWWM romance //
A black teen tries to make a name for herself in the mostly white world of country music. Ashanté wants to be a star like her idols Mickey Guyton, Vicki Vann and Rissi Palmer. Unfortunately, she gets nervous whenever she has to give a speech in class.
When her college roommates take her to a bar, Ashanté gets drunk for the first time and sings karaoke songs on a dare. Unknown to her, a music exec happens to be there that night. Producer Bryce Walker is white, wealthy and womanizing, and he knows the sound of money when he hears it. Ashanté sounds like ka-ching.
But the music industry's a vicious world, especially for someone as innocent and shy as Ashanté. Bryce has always had a policy of not getting involved with employees, but as he watches the cutthroat business turn his star act into a drug addict, he realizes his feelings go deeper than just professional concern. Can he turn things around and save Ashanté before the industry destroys her?
This is a romance novel; of course he can. ٩(˘◡˘)۶