Sounds Like Love

Bestseller Poston (A Novel Love Story) delivers a winning magical realist romance that explores artistic creation, grief, and new beginnings—all through the medium of a sweet, slow-burning love story between a burnt-out songwriter and a former boy band “bad boy” who’s eager to make a comeback. “Popcorn pop song” writer Joni Lark is stuck. She hasn’t written a new song in nearly a year, she’s run out of old material to revise, and on top of that, her parents have decided to close the Revelry—the family-run music venue where she has always been able to find inspiration—due to her mother’s worsening dementia. So when she starts hearing a man’s voice in her head, Joni thinks she’s cracked from stress. The voice, Sebastian, is equally convinced that Joni is imaginary, until a phone call proves that they are both real people tied together by a mysterious psychic link that’s somehow connected to a half-finished song. Poston mines this setup for both humor and pathos as she teases out a deep history connecting her protagonists. This moving romance will delight Poston’s fans and should earn her plenty of new ones. Agent: Holly Root, Root Literary. (June)