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Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she'd rather play trumpet than play ball--and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her) , she plans to spend the summer focused on jazz and nothing else.She only goes to thewarehouse party in a last-ditch effort to bond with her older sister. Instead,she falls in love with dance music, DJing...and Derek, a gorgeous promoter whothinks he can make her a star. Suddenly trumpet practice and old friendshipsare taking a backseat to packed dance floors and sun-soaked music festivals,outsized personalities and endless beats.But when a devastating tragedy plunges her goldensummer into darkness, Mira discovers just how little she knows about her newboyfriend, her old friends, and even her own sister.
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Anna Hecker grew up at the dead end of a dirt road in Vermont. She holds an MFA from The New School and spent a decade writing ad copy and chasing beats before returning to fiction, her first love. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and fluffy bundle of glamor, Cat Benatar. Follow her @HeckerBooks on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
