Interracial Romance (BWAM) · The Ashgrove Symphony
Under the Hand
He would not let her cut a single note. Twice, he was right.
Mariatu Sesay has spent nine years as the orchestral librarian nobody notices. Now Ashgrove has given her twelve days to turn a composer's late, pencilled score into parts ninety players can read before the premiere's first rehearsal.
Tsai Kuan-Yu has never heard a full orchestra play his music, and he insists on sitting across the table while she works. When she marks a bar unplayable, he sits her at the piano, stands behind her and moves her hand into the voicing he hears. His obstinacy becomes the most exact attention anyone has ever paid her work. By the end of the first week the argument over the score has moved into the empty building after dark.
Then the orchestra stalls at the one passage he never let her touch, and Mariatu fixes it the way librarians always have: quietly, overnight, without telling him. He hears it in eight bars.
An explicit British orchestra romance: a Black British heroine, a Taiwanese-British hero, plain-spoken consent, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Perfect for fans of Talia Hibbert and Helen Hoang.
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Multicultural & InterracialWorkplace RomanceContemporary
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The Ashgrove Symphony
