Resonance

Once a rising name in the music industry, the owner of a small chain of record stores walked away from it all and has never said why. Gossip has followed her ever since, but she is not interested in explaining herself. Her shops are her priority now, and she is determined to keep them running as the digital market reshapes how people buy music. Her latest hire, Owen Harper, is a bundle of enthusiasm who seems to break something every time he turns around. He is also a dreamer chasing a music career, the one path she has closed off for herself. They want very different things from life, yet he keeps pulling her attention away from the simpler future she has planned.

Then an old figure from her past returns with a proposal she would be foolish to turn down. The decision affects more than the survival of the shops she has poured fifteen years into. It could also cost her the one part of herself she has been guarding most carefully. As her resolve weakens, she has to face how much she wants the man she swore she would keep at arm's length.

Resonance is the second book in the Rhythm of Love series, but it works as a standalone. It is a sensual, slow-burn romance with an age gap and a boss and employee dynamic, filled with sharp banter, moments of hurt and comfort, and two stubborn leads who are reluctant to admit what they need.