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Bailey wasn’t always a wild child and the black sheep of her family. She used to play fiddle and tour the music circuit with her sister, Julie, who sang and played guitar. That ended when country music execs swooped in and signed Julie to a solo deal. Never mind that Julie and Bailey were a duet, or that Bailey was their songwriter. The music scouts wanted only Julie, and their parents were content to sit by and let her fulfill her dreams while Bailey’s were hushed away. Bailey has tried to numb the pain and disappointment over what could have been. And as Julie’s debut album is set to hit the charts, her parents get fed up with Bailey’s antics and ship her off to granddad’s house in Nashville. Playing fiddle in washed-up tribute groups at the mall, Bailey meets Sam, a handsome and oh-so-persuasive guitarist with his own band. He knows Bailey’s fiddle playing is just the thing his band needs to break into the industry. But this life has broken Bailey’s heart once before. She isn’t sure she’s ready to let Sam take her there again…
Publication Year: 2013
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oh frabjous day, callooh, callay! I've had a hard run of a few DNF's with Echols's latest books, but my cautious optimism for DIRTY LITTLE SECRET gave fruit to that familiar, happy zing of characters well written. Echols is fantastic at immersing me in her heroine's point of view, even though Bailey is a born and bred musician and I'm musically challenged. Sam is charming, endearing, and just a little bit dangerous, and I fell in love with him right alongside our heroine. The whole "dirty little secret" plot device was a bit contrived, but I remember how the start of GOING TOO FAR had some bumps (really, you couldn't tell John After was 18?!), and it's not the plots but the characters that always win me over with Echols's books. Funny, human, and heartbreakingly real, it was a pleasure getting to be one of the band for an afternoon.