Contemporary BWAM interracial romance · The Ashgrove Symphony
What He Heard
Ten years ago she walked out of the conservatoire without a word. Eleven bars into the first rehearsal back, he heard why.
Noelle Allardyce gave up the violin at twenty-three and rebuilt her life as a hand therapist in Leeds. She agrees to play once more, from the back desk of the seconds, in a memorial concert for her old professor. Then she finds out the conductor is Kaito Takeda, the boy from Hilary's studio who loved her and never knew why she left.
He stops seventy players without looking at her once. Afterwards, in the empty hall, he names the fault in her left hand that she had to diagnose herself, years too late. Night after night he rebuilds the passage by ear while she treats her own hand like a patient's, until one of them says plainly what this is.
Then Kaito finds Hilary's notebook, which shows that she suspected the truth and did nothing. And for four days he does nothing too.
An explicit British orchestra romance: a Black British heroine, a Japanese-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 & InterracialSecond ChancesContemporary
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The Ashgrove Symphony
