The Broken Beat

I left Spain with a scar on my stomach and a ghost in my lungs.

To the world, Julian Thorne is a god. To me, he's just noise. After my father turned my home into a crime scene, I fled to the only person I had left: my Uncle Teo. Now, I'm a shadow in the wings of a world tour, hiding under oversized hoodies and a name-Alex-that everyone assumes belongs to a man.

I don't want the lights. I don't want the music. I especially don't want the British prick with the tattooed skin and the voice that sounds like a velvet sin.

Julian doesn't trust anyone. He thinks I'm a groupie. He thinks I'm a spy. He treats me like the dirt on his designer boots because I'm the only girl in the world who doesn't look at him like he's a savior.

He wants to break my silence.
He doesn't realise that in my silence, I'm screaming.

And when the man who tried to kill me finally finds me across the ocean, Julian Thorne might be the only monster big enough to protect me.

He's the king of the stage. I'm the girl who forgot how to dance. Together, we're a symphony of wreckage.