What The Bone Hears

Clara Whitlock has spent her life learning how to make the right sound—and hide everything that might ruin it.

She's a cellist on the verge of the career her mother has spent years arranging for her, playing through a wrist injury she can no longer ignore. At one party, she says "I'm fine" five times by eight o'clock. Then a diesel mechanic working beneath a boat counts them out loud.

So she asks Cal Doherty to pretend to be her boyfriend. Three months, a pink slip of rules, and one rule above the rest: no lies between them.

But the arrangement begins to cost more than either of them planned. Gregory Lathrop, the patron behind the prize, has started asking for Tuesdays. A former Lathrop fellow has stopped answering her calls. Fourteen folders sit in a locked cabinet. And the one person who should have protected her has been signing things for years.

Clara must decide what she is willing to hear—and what she is finally ready to say.

*What The Bone Hears* is a slow-burn contemporary romance about love, music, and the cost of staying quiet.