Some inheritances you don’t get to refuse.
- Series: Music Mayhem, Volume 1 (multi-author series)
- Author: Wendy Cheairs
- Genre: contemporary rockstar romance
- 🌶️ Spice: 4, open door
- Kindle Unlimited: yes
About the book
Celeste Bellamy has spent a decade turning grief, ambition, and one impossible mentor’s belief in her into the only language she trusts: perfume. When Jocelyn Hastings — the woman who gave her a lab, a legacy, and a reason to stay in New York — dies, Celeste is left with an unfinished fragrance, a company in freefall, and no idea who’s left to protect either one.
Certainly not Jocelyn’s son. Thad Hastings is a rockstar with a bad reputation, a band waiting for him in Berlin, and zero interest in running a perfume empire he never asked to inherit. He came home to bury his mother, not become her.
But he doesn’t leave.
Something about Celeste — her precision, her stubbornness, the way she talks about scent like it’s the only truth she’s ever trusted — makes him want to find out what his mother actually built, and why it mattered so much to her. As a hostile uncle circles the company and the launch of Celeste’s masterpiece hangs by a thread, Thad and Celeste are thrown into each other’s orbit: late nights in the lab, stolen hours in the back of cabs, and a fragrance that might be the only thing either of them has left to lose.
She’s spent her life being careful. He’s spent his running from anything that asked him to stay. Neither of them planned on this.
Some legacies are written in scent. This one might be written in both of them.
You’ll love this if you like
Rockstar romance · grief and inheritance · workplace romance · opposites attract · New York nights
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Content notes
Open-door scenes · death of a parent and mentor · grief. See all content notes.
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