Broken Strings

The night it all came out, Casey Simmons was onstage. By midnight, her name was trending. By morning, nothing looked the same.

Now Casey has to figure out how to stand in the middle of her own story — the one someone else decided to tell without her permission — and decide who she's going to be on the other side of it.

Her label wants careful messaging. Her fans are divided. The radio station in a middle state has already pulled her songs. And Darla's family in Ohio found out not from Darla, but from their phones.

But some things are holding too. Her mother called that morning and said exactly what Casey needed to hear. Her crew showed up to the show without being asked. The streaming numbers climbed. And the song she's been writing for weeks — the honest one, the one about the gap between who you are and what the world sees — is finally finished.

Broken Strings is the third book in the Hidden Harmony series. It's the one where the storm hits and you find out what survives it. It's about the cost of truth and the unexpected grace that sometimes follows it. It's about what breaks and what holds — and how sometimes the things that hold, hold harder because of what they survived.

Casey Simmons is still standing. The question is what she builds next.