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Marlon "Grip" James is a rising hip-hop artist. Bristol Gray manages his career and is the sister of his best friend. After the events of Grip, the two are a couple, and they now have to build a life together in the open.

Fame brings constant public scrutiny, and it weighs on both of them. The question running through the book is whether the promises they made to each other can survive that pressure.

The story alternates between Grip's and Bristol's first-person voices, so each carries half of the telling. Verse is woven in alongside the prose, which gives the writing a raw, emotional edge.

Grip and Bristol are an interracial couple, and the book deals directly with the prejudice and social tension they meet in contemporary America. That gives the romance a grounded, present-day setting rather than a sealed-off one.

This is the last book about Bristol and Grip. It follows the novella Flow and the novel Grip in Kennedy Ryan's Grip series, and it closes out their arc. Readers should start with the earlier books, since this one picks up after them.