Music of the Heart

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To all my readers and fans who have exceeded all my wildest writing dreams. From the bottom of my

heart, I send you love, and give you immense hugs. God bless you for your support.

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

~Alphonse de Lamartine

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Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Epilogue

About the Author

Acknowledgements

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My cowboy boots clomped across the pockmarked pavement as I weaved in and out of the rows of

tour buses. Screamo rock music blared around me, echoing through the cramped parking lot. Roadies

and technicians brushed past me with scratchy conversations emitting from their headsets and walkie-

talkies. Once they swept their gaze over the dangling authorized pass around my neck, they didn’t ask

what I was doing, nor did they ask if they could give me a hand.

Intense June heat beat against my back and singed the bare flesh above my thin sundress straps. I

grunted and gave a tug on the rolling suitcase behind me while the guitar case I carried at my right