Aria Blake is pop royalty-platinum records, magazine covers, sold-out tours. With a voice made for heartbreak and hooks that never miss, she's the girl the industry can't stop watching. And with bad boy rocker Fred Durst on her arm, she's half of the most talked-about couple in music. Edgy, glamorous, chaotic-they're the kind of pair that keeps tabloids fed and publicists sweating.
But when Eminem drops that line about her and Fred during the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, the world stops. One brutal verse, one smirk from Marshall Mathers, and suddenly Aria's name is on every headline-for all the wrong reasons.
Humiliated and furious, Aria swears she'll never forgive him. Especially when Fred starts pulling away, unable to take the heat. But the industry keeps them circling the same orbit-afterparties, award shows, studio sessions-and no matter how much Aria wants to hate Eminem, he's always there with those maddening eyes and that maddening grin, peeling back her armor like he already knows what's underneath.
What begins as ice-cold tension turns to banter, sparks, then something far more dangerous. He challenges her. She gets under his skin. And beneath the bravado, they start to see each other-really see each other.
But fame doesn't leave room for soft landings. Secrets, cameras, and old wounds threaten to tear them apart before anything real can take root. Aria has spent years building a version of herself the world could love. The question is: can she risk being just her-with him?
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