The Last Verse

"This novel is sexy, suspenseful, and boot-spur sharp." -Eli Cranor, Edgar-Award-winning author of Don't Know Tough Set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville, a struggling musician writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime. Nashville, 1977: A broken heart. A terrible crime. A song the world would sing. When aspiring musician Twyla Finch arrives in Nashville, Tennessee, the nineteen-year-old Texan is dazzled by the fringe-and-rhinestones country music scene. As she finds her way in this vibrant town, she soon falls for Chet Wilton, country music hopeful and son of blue-blooded Nashvillians. When a night out with Chet goes terribly wrong, Twyla finds herself involved in a shocking crime. Hoping to process what happened, she composes a haunting ballad that she performs only once in an empty bar. But weeks later, when she turns on the radio, she hears another woman singing her song. Twyla must decide: Should she claim her ballad and secure the fame she's always wanted? Or stay quiet and avoid implicating herself in the terrible crime she's desperate to put in the past?