STATIC BETWEEN US

He's used to being wanted. She refuses to want him.

Mara Ellis came to the Black Veil Saints concert for one reason: the music.

She definitely didn't come for Ronan Vexley-the dangerously charming front man with a voice made for sin, a face plastered across magazine covers, and a reputation for leaving broken hearts in his wake.

So when a backstage sound malfunction threatens to derail the show and Mara, an engineer by trade, steps in to fix it, she expects nothing more than a few minutes of technical troubleshooting.

She certainly doesn't expect Ronan to notice her.

But he does.

And suddenly, Mara finds herself with backstage passes, his number in her phone, and a rock star who seems determined to prove he's more than the womanizing celebrity everyone thinks he is.

Mara knows better.

She refuses to become another notch on his belt, another fleeting romance buried beneath tour dates and flashing cameras. But Ronan isn't asking her to be another girl.

He's asking her to be his friend.

Late-night conversations turn into inside jokes. Backstage passes turn into quiet moments away from the crowds. And somewhere between recording studios, tour buses, broken equipment, and stolen glances, Mara begins to see the man behind the rock-star persona.

The problem?

She might actually like him.

Then Ronan's glamorous superstar ex returns, and suddenly everything Mara thought they were building begins to unravel.

Because maybe she was never different.

Maybe she was just the next girl Ronan wanted to conquer.

And if there's one thing Mara refuses to be, it's someone's temporary obsession.

But Ronan has never chased anyone before.

And he's not about to let the only woman who ever saw him walk away.

He lives for the stage.
She lives behind the scenes.
And somewhere between the music and the static, they became each other's favorite song.