They Stole My Songs
READING AGE 16+
For three years, Maya Reed has answered phones at Sterling Records while pop princess Scarlett Vale collects the awards for songs Maya wrote in the dark. A contract stole her name, so Maya kept everything else — every manuscript, every demo, every dated page. But when a live concert disaster shoves the invisible receptionist onto the stage, she opens her mouth, and the whole world finally hears whose songs they really are.
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The courier caught me at the top of Fieldnote's wooden stairwell on Monday morning. He wore a canvas messenger bag and held a clipboard toward my chest before I had my keys out of my pocket.
I signed for the heavy cream envelope, carried it down into the smell of solder and stale coffee, and tore the seal open beside the upright piano.<……
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