Devil's Violin

Some people save your life by pulling you out of the darkness.
Others simply sit beside you until you remember how to walk back into the light yourself.

Knox "Riot" Mercer is the frontman of Black Static - the man every sold-out arena screams for. Charismatic. Magnetic. Untouchable.

Behind the stage lights he's just Knox.

A man who has spent his entire life convinced he's too damaged to be loved. Too broken to be saved. Too dangerous to let anyone close.

Then he hears a violin in a rain-soaked alley at 2am.

One note. Clear enough to cut straight through the static.

And for the first time in a very long time - everything inside him goes quiet.

Layla Moreau isn't looking for a rockstar. She's not looking for anyone. She's just playing because music is the only language that never lies to her.

She doesn't set out to fix Knox.

She simply refuses to stop seeing the man he's forgotten how to be.

But Knox has spent years perfecting the art of pushing people away. And loving Layla terrifies him more than anything - because losing her would destroy him completely.

The question isn't whether they love each other.

The question is whether Knox can believe he's worth loving before he destroys the one person who already does.

Devil's Violin is a dark contemporary rockstar romance about healing after trauma, the courage it takes to let love in, and the quiet power of being truly seen.