The Album: Book 2

**** Trigger Warnings****Alcoholism****PG-13 Under Aged Intimacy Implied**** Death****
Luca Elise Rivera has always lived in the quiet spaces-
above her family's coffee shop, behind her guitar,
between the noise of a turbulent home and the dreams she's not sure she deserves.

Then she notices Jayden-
a shy girl with a camera, soft eyes, and a way of looking at the world that feels like a song Luca can almost hear.

What begins as stolen glances becomes something warm and breathtaking:
late-night messages, shared Polaroids, winter walks, prom nights, rooftop confessions, and two girls slowly building a world where they can finally breathe.

But love this tender has a weight of its own.

Luca wants to be honest about who she is.
Jayden is still learning how to be brave.
And the closer they grow, the more complicated the truth becomes.

So Luca turns to the one language that has never failed her:
music.
Track by track, she crafts a playlist that charts everything they are-
their beginnings, their fears, their laughter, their hopes.
She calls it The Album.

As winter deepens over Boston and their lives intertwine in ways neither expected, Luca finds herself standing on the edge of something bigger, brighter, and more terrifying than she ever imagined.

THE ALBUM is a lyrical and intimate love story about first kisses, queer awakening, quiet courage, and the music we create when we finally let ourselves feel.
A companion novel to The Playlist, it explores how love shapes us long before we ever have the words for it.

Some stories are heard.
Hers is felt.