First Verse: A Rockstar Romance (A Perfect Song Duet Book 1)

He's the reason she almost quit music entirely—and now he's the only person who can save her career.

Lyric songwriter Maren Cole has spent three years rebuilding her life after rock legend Declan Fury publicly humiliated her at the industry's biggest awards show. She's sharp-tongued, fiercely talented, and done letting beautiful men with guitars wreck her carefully constructed world.

Then her label drops an ultimatum: co-write Declan's comeback album or lose her contract.

Declan remembers Maren differently than she remembers him—and the truth behind that night is messier, more complicated, and far more damaging than either of them is ready to admit. What starts as professional warfare inside a cramped Los Angeles studio slowly becomes something neither of them can name. Every argument bleeds into breathless silence. Every song they write together sounds like a confession neither is brave enough to speak out loud.

The problem with writing music with someone who infuriates you? The passion doesn't stay on the page.

Maren knows exactly how this story ends. She's lived it once before. But Declan isn't the villain she built him into—and that terrifies her more than his arrogance ever could.

*First Verse* is a slow-burn, high-tension rockstar romance about the dangerous distance between hatred and longing, and the moment a person realizes those two things were never really different at all.