Colt & Serena

A Hysterics Companion Novella

From Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola comes a raw, emotional, slow-burn rockstar romance about redemption, healing, and the unexpected love that changes everything.

I never meant to get stuck in the world of gay-for-pay.
But when life backs you into a corner, sometimes survival looks like a choice you never wanted to make.

I was determined to leave it behind—
to build something real, something I could finally be proud of.
The tattoo shop was supposed to be my clean slate.
A fresh start.
A chance to reclaim the parts of myself I thought I’d lost forever.

And then Colt Parker walked in.

The quiet, steady guitarist from The Hysterics had no business making my heart race.
He was everything I wasn’t—calm, grounded, good.
But the moment our eyes met over the buzz of my tattoo gun, I knew my clean slate was about to get complicated.

He didn’t judge my past.
He didn’t flinch at my scars.
Instead, he made me feel seen.
Wanted.
Worth choosing.

Colt turned my world upside down…
and I wouldn’t change a damn thing.

Colt & Serena is a steamy, emotional rockstar-tangent novella about second chances, found family, and falling for someone who helps you become the person you were meant to be.

This standalone companion novella ends with a full HEA and can be read before or after The Hysterics.