Distance Between Notes

Lauren Hemmingway was fifteen when she learned how to hold a family together.

After her stepfather's sudden death, she became the caretaker of a grieving, alcoholic mother and a toddler sister-putting her own wants on hold and quietly letting go of the father she believed had chosen his music career over her.

Years later, Lauren is still living the life she never chose... until her estranged father-legendary songwriter Daniel Hemmingway-dies and leaves her everything.

Forced back to Laurel Canyon and the world she walked away from, Lauren must confront the truth about her parents' past, the love she was denied, and the legacy now resting in her hands. As the music industry pressures her to sell what Daniel spent a lifetime protecting, Lauren finds unexpected grounding in Elias-a musician who doesn't need saving and doesn't ask her to disappear to be loved.

Caught between Missouri and California, duty and desire, silence and song, Lauren must decide whether she'll continue surviving-or finally choose herself.