Contemporary BWAM interracial romance · The Ashgrove Symphony
The Half-Second Before
They talked for four hours without surnames. The next morning she played for him behind a screen, and neither of them knew.
Amara Boakye has spent four years being the second-best violist in every room. The night before she auditions for the vacant chair at the Ashgrove Symphony, she goes home with a stranger who loves the same piece she cannot hear without flinching. In the morning she plays behind the screen, where nothing about a player counts except the sound, and wins on a split panel.
At the contract meeting she learns that the man who argued her through is Ashgrove's chief conductor. Playing under Minjae Sohn is the best work of her life: he hears what she has done a half-second before she knows she has done it, and she cannot tell wanting that from needing it. Then the passed-over candidate reports the conflict of interest, and the screen that was supposed to make Amara unarguable has made her impossible to defend.
An explicit British orchestra romance: a Black heroine, a Korean-British hero, plain-spoken consent, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Perfect for fans of Talia Hibbert and Helen Hoang.
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