Fret

BLUFF CITY STEREO: The Homecoming Album Novella Series

De: Nikole Diamond

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Reid Sutherland counts mistakes the way other people count sheep.

He's the perfectionist. Lead guitarist, quality control, the one who color-codes his pedalboard and keeps notes on every performance whether anyone asks for them or not. Everything meticulous about Reid was forged in Rockford, Illinois, a rust belt city where precision was the only thing standing between him and ruin.

When the band shoots a music video in Orchard Hill, Reid plans every shot, every angle, every frame. Then Brinley Voss walks in fourteen minutes late, submitted on a dare, unable to find parking.

She can't hit her marks. She stops mid-take to examine a spider web. She talks with her mouth full and trips on cables and apologizes for existing.

The footage is the best thing they've ever shot.

On camera, her chaos is magnetic. Off camera, she's dismantling every wall Reid has built, brick by careless brick. She's Holden's younger cousin. She's twenty-two, unplanned, and terrifying. And the song Reid wrote about control and losing it just found its music video — and its meaning.

Fret is the fourth book in the Bluff City Stereo series.