Stay with My Heart
Liana Sarkar has always planned to follow her late mother into the music industry, working toward a career in music marketing at her father's label. Since her mother's death, her father has become distant and overworked, and Liana has been hiding her own anxiety and depression from him, afraid that getting help before college would mean he'd find out through his insurance.
When Liana accidentally sabotages the local band Third Eye right before a make-or-break opportunity, she sets out to quietly fix what she broke, helping the band rebuild their image and social media presence ahead of an end-of-summer contest. The closer she gets to the band, and to its enigmatic leader Skyler Moon, the harder it becomes to keep her involvement a secret without losing what she's building with him.
Stay with My Heart is a contemporary YA novel about grief, honesty, mental health, and the work of forgiving yourself for your mistakes.
Aspiring music marketer hiding her anxiety and depression from her grieving, distant father.
Enigmatic frontman of the band Liana accidentally sabotages, and later falls for.