Pretty When It Burns by Hailey Klier Decker
Mia
I’ve built my career staying behind the lens, behind the scenes—exactly where I belong. But when fate throws me straight into the orbit of the one man I never truly got over, everything I’ve kept tightly held starts to unravel.
Grayson Harris. My childhood crush. The boy across the street turned alt-rock god with tattoos, a tortured soul, and a voice that still makes my heart stutter.
I promised myself I wouldn’t fall for him. That I couldn’t. But Grayson doesn’t play fair. And somewhere between the music, the grief, and the chaos, he’s breaking through every wall I’ve built.
Grayson
My world is on fire. A band on the edge of fame, a marriage in ashes, and the mother that didn’t give me a chance to know her slipping away from me before we could fix it.
Then she shows up.
Mia Alexander. The one person who looked at me like I was worth something—before the world ever did.
She’s calm in the chaos. Sharp behind the camera and soft where it counts. I should keep my distance. I’m too broken, too bitter, too much.
But Mia is the only thing that feels real anymore. And if I don’t find a way to hold onto her, I might lose myself for good.
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Pretty When It Burns is a slow-burn, emotionally charged contemporary romance about second chances, unspoken love, and finding light in the wreckage. The first installation of the When The Lights Go Down series of interconnected stand-alone novels, Mia and Grayson’s story will leave you wanting more long after the final song ends.
