Backstage Nepo Baby

"What's with the endless designer sweats? Is nepo baby chic the new spring fashion trend?"

At twenty-five, Lia Vega has finally stepped out of the shadows. Unfortunately, it's exactly where her mother wants her.

For twenty-two years, Lia was hidden from the world as the secret daughter of Valentina Vega, the diva-tier global pop icon now chasing a triumphant comeback. Now the world knows her name - and her mother has other plans for her too. By night, Lia is Valentina's secret stunt double, choking through walls of stage smoke on a rig thirty feet above the arena floor, her asthma a secret nobody outside the family can know about. By day, she's a senior at an elite performing arts university, five years older than her classmates - and stuck attending actual kindergarten classes each morning, a bizarre requirement built to quietly erase the neglect allegations that trailed her mother for keeping her hidden all those years. All Lia wants is to survive long enough to find the father she's never met, and finally walk away from the industry that's owned her whole life.

Then Ryan Kim walks into it.

At twenty-three, Ryan is the cat-eyed, broad-shouldered leader of the global K-pop sensation Stellar Heartz. Millions adore his easy smile - but few know about the family he left behind in Australia, or that he's never forgiven himself for failing to save his older brother.

He couldn't save Andrew. Can he save Lia?