It Happened on a Sunday
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4.2 • 13 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff comes a fierce, emotional romance about two people surviving the spotlight and choosing love when everything says they shouldn't.
They call her the Black Widow. A pop star. A tabloid tragedy. A girl who set the world on fire—and got burned in return.
But Sloane Walker doesn’t care what they say. Not anymore. The headlines, the hashtags, the rumors that never die? Let them come. She’s survived worse—like the betrayal that nearly destroyed her and the fans who blamed her for surviving. These days, she’s armor and eyeliner, singing songs that hurt and pretending they don’t.
She’s halfway through a sold-out tour and dangerously close to unraveling when a meet-and-greet throws her into the path of Mateo Sylvester—a media darling with a magnetic smile, a thriving career of his own, and a grandmother who happens to be Sloane’s biggest fan. He knows exactly how brutal the spotlight can be. He’s lived it. He’s got the press eating from his hand. She’s got a flask full of sweet tea, a voice full of ghosts, and no patience for golden boys with good intentions.
She tells herself it’s just a photo op. Just another handshake. Just another public face with private secrets and no idea what it means to bleed for your art.
But Mateo sees more than the stage persona. He sees the cracks in her smile. The songs she’s too scared to write. The girl underneath the glitter, still fighting to stay.
They weren’t supposed to fall. Not in the spotlight. Not when the world is watching. And definitely not when the people closest to them would do anything to keep them apart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Wolff (Crave) explores the fragile balance between private life and public persona in this emotional celebrity romance. Superstar singer-songwriter Sloane Walker is labeled the Black Widow by the tabloids after two of her boyfriends die, sparking suspicion and rumors that follow her everywhere. She defiantly embraces the moniker on stage even while privately reeling as she unpacks her trauma in the aftermath of domestic abuse and worries that someone may be stalking her. When she meets star quarterback Mateo "Sly" Sylvester and his abuela, who's a big fan, backstage at a meet and greet, Sloane feels as though he immediately sees through her tough exterior to the real her. Their ensuing whirlwind romance reignites Sloane's passion for writing new music, a fire she believed was long extinguished. Comparisons between the central romance and the relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce feel inevitable, but while Swifties will find plenty to enjoy, Wolff takes the story in some unexpected directions. The suspense elements keep the plot moving at a clip even as Wolff finds time to excavate Sloane's trauma. This is sure to be a hit with Wolff's fans.