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GRACE NOTE by J. Bengtsson is NOW AVAILABLE!! The Princess of a Hollywood dynasty falls for a homeless runaway foster kid in this emotional, second chance, found family, forced proximity, rock star romance you wonāt want to miss!
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Blurb:
Iām the privileged youngest child of the famous McKallister family. Heās a runaway foster kid living rough. We were never meant to meet. This is where our story begins. Itās nowhere near how it ends.
Grace
The beat. The cheers. The thrill of the unknown. I shouldnāt leave the safety of the music arenaāmy last name is McKallister, after all, and Iām intimately familiar with worst-case scenarios. But Iām drawn by the talent and the turmoil behind the weary eyes of the drummer on the streets. Iāve never seen anyone my age as wild and unrestrained, a lightning bolt of electricity that never hits the same spot on his bucket drums twice. He plays with such confidence, such rage. I have to know who he is and where he learned to bang out drum solos like he owns the night.
I want to help him. No, to save him. If only Rory will let me.
Rory
When I play, Iām in my element. I know how to draw a crowd and how to keep them riveted. For a small period of time every day, Iām special. Talented. Going somewhere. Little do they know Iām going back to nothing: no family, no friends, no roof over my head. When the music ends, I fade into the background like the undesirable I am. And then she shows up, so pretty and polished and pure. I donāt expect her to stay and talk. I definitely donāt expect her to sit down on the sidewalk and drum a song onto my thigh. Yet here she isāanyoneās ultimate dream girlāpromising to save me.
Too bad Grace stumbled upon me a decade too late.
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Ā SUNNY SHELLY’S REVIEW: 5 Stars
The Cake series and the McKallister kids’ stories come to a brilliant end in Grace Note, featuring the youngest McKallister sibling. Grace and Rory’s story is full of heartache and heartbreak, an emotional rollercoaster that lifts you high, then drops you low and takes you back up again!
Throughout the Cake books, Rory and Grace have been on-again, off-again. Grace Note starts where Next in Line left off: Rory reappears in Grace’s life after 10 years when her brother, Quinn, asks him to be the drummer in his band, throwing her off-kilter. The story then goes back and forth between the past and the present, and we get to see all the nuances of this couple’s relationship.
Grace Note tackles some pretty heavy topics (the foster system, domestic violence, homelessness), and Jill Bengtsson handles it all beautifully. My heart broke for Rory over and over again, but despite the odds stacked against him, he keeps powering through. I loved seeing little Gracie come into her own as a woman in love, and her dedication to the guy who grabbed her heart when she was just 16 years old is fierce.
I loved this series, I loved this family, and Grace and Rory were the perfect way to wrap it all up! I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.
ABOUT J. BENGTSSON
J. (Jill) Bengtsson is the bestselling author of the Cake Series. She writes contemporary novels focused on love, humor, passion, and family. Her heroines are strong, nurturing, and quirky while her heroes are what dreams are made of – gorgeous, committed, and in need of a little saving. A native Californian, Jillās novels are set under the glittering lights of the West Coast entertainment industry.
They are for the dreamer in all of us.
Jill resides in Ventura County, California. Sheās married to the Swedish boy she met as an exchange student her junior year in college and they have three children, a golden retriever, and two ragdoll cats.
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