Music Industry Fiction

A delightfully funny and steamy novel about music, fate, redemption, and love, written by a beloved songwriter and the co-founder of The Bangles. "This Bird Has Flown is SO GOOD. If you liked Daisy Jones & The Six or Juliet, Naked, I feel like you will love this one." —Taylor Jenkins Reid Jane...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, the narrator for Gillian Flynn's Dark Places and John Grisham's The Whistler Bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock delivers a gripping thriller set in the high-pressure world of the Nashville music industry. Double Minds blends a murder mystery, an amateur...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet. Worse, they were lawyering up. . . . In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe—and the inner...

A divorced R&B singer starting over at forty gets caught between a ruthless promoter and her protective ex. Will she reclaim her voice or lose her heart? At forty, I thought my music career was dead, until a dangerously seductive promoter offered me the spotlight. Jermaine promises to put my R&B band on the map, but his touch demands a price I might not survive. Just as I give in to the heat between us, my ex-husband steps out of the shadows with a fierce demand for a second chance. Ellington broke my heart years ago, yet his protective glare still sets my soul on fire. Trapped in a ...

Demetrius Morgan built an empire from nothing — chains, platinum plaques, a label soaked in blood money he told himself he'd never have to answer for. Then somebody found the camera he never knew was there. Three years after his assassination, the truth finally surfaces: not one tape, but an archive — years of hidden footage turning intimate moments into leverage for the most powerful people in America. His baby mamas, Lady Godiva and Korvette, become unwilling headlines overnight. A federal agent who buried the case for three years finally breaks his silence. A label built on the same ...

Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life -- except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When...

Coming from the mean streets of Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, Tone and Rowdy lived a life that others would run away from. With their younger bro, Stacks, by their sides all three men became legit and rose to the top of the music industry. But you know what they say, "mo money, mo problems". With so much at stake, it would be foolish to go back to their ruthless killer ways, but they just might have to.

Marcus King was the industry’s golden boy, a world-class producer known as Majesty. But when the people he trusted most—his sister Shay, his best friend Kash, and his cousin Trell—conspired with mogul Sterling Cade to strip him of his legacy, Marcus was left with nothing. Framed by a federal investigation and left to deal with the mounting medical debt from his son Zaire’s premature birth, Marcus’s life was systematically dismantled by the very people he had once supported. Now, Marcus and his wife, Nia, have returned as ghosts. They aren't seeking physical retribution; they are ...

You wake up somewhere you don’t recognise. Cold, alone, a fuzzy head. You think back to the night before. The gig, the drinks. That must be why you’re feeling so out of it. But then you try the door. It doesn’t open. And that’s when it hits. You’re trapped. Alexa Danesford knows how to...

A divorced R&B singer starting over at forty is seduced by a ruthless concert promoter, only for her ex-husband to reenter her life with a secret that threatens to destroy her career and her second chance at true love. At forty, I thought my second chance at music meant playing empty speakeasies. Then a dangerous promoter promised me the world, and my ex-husband returned to claim my heart. Jermaine is everything I shouldn't want: slick, powerful, and dangerously persuasive. He promises to make my voice unforgettable, but his touch comes with hidden fine print. Just as I start falling for ...

From the streets of Oakland to the stages of Atlanta, some truths are worth dying for. Three years after a botched robbery left her best friend bleeding out on a convenience store floor, Jasmine Perkins has reinvented herself as Jayda Truth—a fierce rapper with bars sharp enough to cut through lies and a voice that refuses to be silenced. But when she steps into Atlanta's underground music scene, Jasmine discovers the industry's glittering promises hide a darker reality. Girls go missing. Voices get silenced. And behind it all lurks a mysterious figure known only as "The Queen"—a puppet...

She wasn't supposed to make it this far. Tatiana Fuller left Minneapolis with nothing but raw nerve, a voice that could silence a room, and a hunger no amount of struggle could kill. She arrives in Atlanta reinvented — draped in lavender, dangerous as a live wire, and performing under a name that will soon mean everything in the music industry: KORVETTE. One viral night. One stage. One performance that breaks the internet and changes the game forever. But the higher she rises, the deadlier the air gets. Lady Godiva built her empire over a decade of domination. She did not get to the top ...

Frankie Foster never wanted the spotlight. She was happiest at the edge of the stage — guitar in hand, heart in her lyrics, letting someone else take the applause. With The Dublin Dolls — five young women raised on dreams, dive-bar stages and cheap takeaways — she found her family, her fire, her future. Until one betrayal shattered everything. When their charismatic lead singer steals Frankie’s most personal song and rockets to stardom, Frankie walks away from the only life she’s ever known. Love is broken. The band is finished. The dream is dead. Or so she thinks. Because music ...

God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good – so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week’s fishing trip, but on Earth several hundred years go by. When God returns, he finds all hell has broken loose: world wars, holocausts...

Joe Ruddy (rhymes with bloody) was a former military policeman. New to the Dallas Police Department and even newer to the detective division, Joe found himself being assigned to all the shitty cases the veterans did not want to investigate. Joe was a self-conscious alcoholic who wrote songs and sang in bars and honky tonks. He did not consider himself a professional singer but enjoyed singing as a hobby. His hobby made Joe the prime candidate for reopening an old homicide case.

n the Lowcountry, the music is beautiful. The money is dirty. And the secrets will get you killed. Anna Bell Lee came back to the South Carolina Sea Islands with a Duke MBA, a plan, and enough street sense to know that Spanish Moss Records was more than a music empire — it was a machine. Built on blood money, bankrolled by the most dangerous men in the Deep South, and held together by two superstars whose forbidden chemistry threatened to burn everything down. ATL $lim. Raw. Street-certified. Impossible to control. Lady Godiva. Platinum. Beautiful. The police chief's daughter. One affair....

In Atlanta's glittering hip-hop scene, darkness lurks beneath the neon lights. Who is the hunter, and who is the prey? When predators think they own the night, I become the shadow that hunts them back. Ancient rituals fused with cutting-edge surveillance. Justice served in blood and code. The music industry's toxic underbelly hides secrets worth killing for. Detective Leon Sanders thought he'd seen every kind of evil—until bodies started appearing with ritual markings and a calling card: "Long live The Queen, Thy Majesty." Now he's racing to uncover a network of exploitation before it ...

The people you annoy might just come back to haunt you. Ronny likes things done his way. As one of London’s most respected mastering engineers, he doesn’t have time for cocky young musicians, squeaky chairs, or anyone messing with his process. Storm, unfortunately, is all three. When their clash in the studio ends badly, Ronny thinks he’s seen the last of the irritating teenager. But that night, alone in his house, a sound begins to follow him, a sound that won’t stop. Is Storm playing games, or has Ronny pushed someone too far? Set in the winter of 1986, Breakdown is a sharp, ...

When the drummer of the world’s most infamous grindcore band is accused of being a serial killer, nobody takes it seriously. Not at first. The murders follow the Dead Cities Tour across America like shadows — a body in Pittsburgh, another in Detroit, another in Atlanta. Each killing is different. Random. Impossible to predict. Online conspiracy theories explode, fans turn the horror into mythology, and the band’s charismatic frontman laughs the accusations off as internet madness. But private detective Isaac Cross sees patterns nobody else wants to see. And behind the drums, James ...

BEFORE GOODBYE What if the greatest tragedy of your life wasn't losing the people you love... but realizing you stopped choosing them long before they were gone? Renzo Ferrante has everything the world told him to want. At twenty-eight, he is one of the most celebrated musicians in the world. His songs fill stadiums, his face covers magazines, and millions of fans believe they know the man behind the music. But fame has become a beautiful prison, built one compromise, one broken promise, and one unanswered phone call at a time. The people who loved him most have slowly become strangers. His...