Unmasked

Some people collect stamps. Some people collect records.

Willow Hart collects moments.

At twenty-two, her life is quieter than she ever imagined. Living alone in London with three cats, a growing collection of memories she can't throw away, and music constantly filling the silence, Willow feels as though everyone else learned how to become an adult while she was left behind.

The only thing that truly understands her is Afterlight.

Hidden behind masks and distorted voices, the band's songs feel less like music and more like confessions. Their mysterious lead singer, Ryder, writes lyrics that seem to know the things Willow has never been able to say aloud.

When a competition gives her the chance to meet the man behind the mask, Willow believes she's simply meeting her favourite musician.

She doesn't know that Ryder already knows her.

8 years earlier, in the back row of a cold biology classroom, a quiet boy named Finn Sullivan sat beside a girl who drew stars in the corners of his notebook. Somewhere between school corridors, first loves, and growing up, they lost each other.

But some people never stop remembering.

And some songs were written for only one person to hear.

Unmasked is a story about lost friendships, forgotten starss music that says the things we cannot, and the boy who never stopped singing about the girl who stopped noticing him.