The Encore

by Juliet Izon

A captivating journey of love, sacrifice, and destiny set against the world of music. In 2003, at Boston's Brookfield Conservatory, pianist‑singer Anna Buckley meets prodigy composer Will Pendleton, forging a bond that seems destined. A night before graduation shatters their relationship. Twenty years later, sixteen‑year‑old piano virtuoso Lottie Thomas in New York discovers the truth about her birth mother, thrusting her into a cross‑country rock‑and‑roll tour bus where she, her mother, and Anna must confront the choices of the past and reconcile their intertwined fates.