Under the spotlight

Velvet Voltage wasn't just a boy band - they were a global phenomenon. Three years after dropping their first EP and debuting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the group had become the heartbeat of the music industry. Sold-out stadiums, shattered streaming records, and millions of devoted fans...the world couldn't get enough.

Lydia Hale, on the other hand, was just stepping into the spotlight. A rising pop vocalist with a voice powerful enough to stop producers mid-conversation, she'd caught the attention of major labels - and even earned public praise from her idol, Ariana Grande. When Republic Records finally offered her the deal of a lifetime, she didn't hesitate.

What she didn't expect was to end up under the same label as Velvet Voltage.
And she definitely didn't expect Chris Knight, the band's brooding lead singer, to hate everything she represented.

Chris had his reasons - a messy past tangled with pop stars and broken trust - and Lydia was everything he swore he'd never deal with again. Yet somehow, fate kept throwing them into the same rooms, same events, same studios.

He despised her image.
He despised her genre.
But most of all...
He hated that he couldn't stop noticing her.

And Lydia?
She wasn't afraid to push back.