Ashes & Amplifiers

21 year old Ivy Hart has spent her whole life believing one thing:

Nobody stays.

Raised in foster care and passed from one temporary home to the next, she's learned to survive by trusting no one but herself.

With nowhere left to go, she walks away from the only home she's ever known, carrying everything she owns in a single battered backpack.

The only thing that's never let her down is music.

For years, Black Static's songs have been her escape the soundtrack to lonely nights, broken hearts and the hope that somehow life might get better.

She never imagined she'd meet them.

She certainly never imagined they'd become her family.

When a chance encounter leaves Ivy on Black Static's tour bus, she finds herself surrounded by six people who see her not as a problem to solve, but as someone worth caring about. As the walls she's spent years building slowly begin to crumble, she discovers friendship, laughter and a place where she finally feels like she belongs.

And somewhere between life on the road, unforgettable concerts and late night conversations, Finn Rossi, the band's endlessly optimistic rhythm guitarist, begins to mean more to her than she ever thought possible.

But healing isn't as simple as finding somewhere to belong.

As Ivy's past catches up with her and old wounds threaten the future she's finally beginning to believe in, she'll have to decide whether she's brave enough to trust the people who refuse to give up on her.

Heartfelt, funny and full of unforgettable characters, Ashes & Amplifiers is a story about found family, healing, first love and discovering that home isn't always a place.

Sometimes...

It's the people who choose to stay.

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Some chapters include AI-generated images created to help bring certain moments from Ivy's story to life. They're simply there to add a little extra visual detail to the world of Ashes & Amplifiers.