The Invitation

Mara Ellis plans other people's big nights for a living. She's good at it. She doesn't sing anymore, and she doesn't talk about why. Then an envelope arrives with no return address and a card the color of old champagne. Friday, nine o'clock, an evening at the Bellwether. Her aunt arranged it. Nobody mentioned that the Bellwether used to be the Juniper Room, the club where Mara stood at a microphone twelve years ago and walked away from everything. Julian is the architect who rebuilt the place. He's dry, careful, and more interested in her than in the room he designed. Theo, the house pianist, knows a name she hasn't heard out loud in twelve years. And when an old recording starts making the rounds online, the version of the story everyone else believes threatens to become the only one. The Invitation is a grown-up love story about wanting things out loud: a man, a stage, a family that tells the truth. It's the first book in The Bellwether Series, connected romances set around one Atlanta club, and it completes Mara and Julian's story while opening the door to Book Two. Sensual scenes with implied, non-graphic intimacy. All romantic partners are adults. For readers 18 and over.