First published 2023
Ariel del Mar has spent her whole life onstage. As one of seven sisters in Siren Seven, she has performed in sequined costumes and a red wig for crowds of thousands since childhood. Now the farewell tour is nearly over, and all she wants is one ordinary summer. Her father, who runs Atlantica Records, has different plans: a solo career, announced immediately on a morning talk show. The night before that announcement, Ariel slips out of the family's Manhattan penthouse with her sisters to catch a rock concert in Brooklyn. She meets Eric Reyes there, the lead singer of a band on the rise. He does not know who she is. He invites her to join them on the road for the summer, and she says yes. For the first time, Ariel chooses something her father did not choose for her. Now she is caught between the career waiting back home and the life she just stepped into, trying to figure out what she actually wants and whether she can say it out loud.
Genres: coming-of-age, contemporary, contemporary-romance, new-adult, new-adult-romance, family-drama
Vibes: coming-of-age, emotional, intimate, introspective, liberating, romantic
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, forbidden-romance, found-family, second-chance-romance
Setting: Manhattan, Brooklyn, New York
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
345 pages · Paperback · Hyperion Avenue