Contemporary BWAM interracial romance · The Ashgrove Symphony
The Inside Chair
He asked for her by name. He had never heard her play in a room.
Marcia Linton walked out of a salaried chair at thirty so nobody would ever again decide where she sat. Now a guest principal from Rotterdam has booked her onto the front desk beside him for one week, ending in a live broadcast of a piece she has never played, with his solo eighteen inches from her bow arm.
The section expected to move up a chair apiece. To them, he has brought in his own person. Then she learns that Chew Wen Kai chose her from a single out-of-print recording. She has to become the player he imagined from a disc, in front of eight people who resent her.
His corrections move to an empty band room, two fingers on her scroll and "slower" in his podium voice, until one of them says it plainly. Then the section's gossip about his lover becomes true, and he protects her without asking.
An explicit British orchestra romance: a Black heroine, a Malaysian Chinese hero, plain-spoken consent, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Perfect for fans of Talia Hibbert and Helen Hoang.
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The Ashgrove Symphony
