ROCK & ROMANCE – FICTION

ISABEL BANTA’s Honey: A Novel follows the meteoric rise of a female pop star during the late 1990s and early aughts after she escapes her small town to join a popular girl group, navigating intensifying fame, exploitation, and complicated relationships. MARISSA STAPLEY’s The Lightning Bottles follows Jane Pyre, one half of the famous duo the Lightning Bottles, as she tries to find out what really happened to her husband and partner in music, who disappeared five years earlier. And in ROCHELLE B. WEINSTEIN’s What You Do to Me: A Novel, when journalist Cecilia James – a sucker for a love song – digs into the identity of one of rock’s greatest muses, she finds a classic tale of two soulmates separated by fate and circumstance, even as her own relationship falls apart.

Buy Honey: A Novel – Banta

Buy The Lightning Bottles – Stapley

Buy What You Do to Me: A Novel – Weinstein