Fold Here

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He used to headline sold-out stadiums. Now he's opening for the girl who just might wreck him.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hayes Weston was once the voice of a generation-until his wife's sudden death and a panic attack caught on live TV brought his career crashing down. Now he's back on tour... with a mic he's not sure he can hold a mind he doesn't fully trust and a new gig as the opening act for a woman half the industry thinks doesn't deserve the spotlight.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Riley James never meant to go viral.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One duet with the moody rock legend she once idolized and suddenly she's headlining a national tour-and sharing a bus with the grumpiest sexiest man she's ever met.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's older untouchable and so obviously haunted.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's chaotic radiant and completely off-limits.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They're supposed to perform a love song.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not live one.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But late-night lyric swaps turn into something dangerously intimate.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A kiss on stage turns into whispers off it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And when they start to fall it might destroy them both.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because fame has rules. And so does grief.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And falling in love on tour? That's the kind of thing that makes headlines.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A steamy slow-burn rockstar romance featuring:</strong></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Age gap & career reversal (he opens she headlines)</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Neurodivergent widower hero (Tourette's + panic disorder)</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tour bus proximity lyric-writing intimacy and secret pining</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A spontaneous on-stage kiss that changes everything</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Found family touring crew + music industry chaos</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One duet that could end in heartbreak-or something bigger than both of them</span></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Book two in the award-winning interconnected Breakout Sessions Series.</em></strong></p><p></p>