The Encore's Forbidden Crown

Natalia Sawadzka is twenty-three, a rising influencer with a sharp tongue and a talent for turning her days into content a vast audience cannot look away from.

Kiri Chhim, thirty-six and the tattooed bassist of The Riven Altar, once had her hanging on his every appearance until he stepped back rather than put the band in jeopardy.

A year after they last had contact, she joins their Asia tour for her sister, whose relationship is tangled with the frontman, and ends up on his tour bus and at his performances.

She wants answers and plans to make that proximity as difficult as she can, putting every smile to work; Kiri wants distance.

Offstage, secrets stay easy to conceal, even while neither of them can quite ignore the other.