Linda Vigen Phillips' passion is creating realistic fiction that offers hope to teens and their families who face mental or physical health challenges. Claire knows something in her life has to change before it’s too late, but she’s not sure she has the courage to take the next step. Her decision puts everything at risk: her friendship with Juan, her parents’ expectations, and her own happiness.Īfter Claire accompanies a friend on a school newspaper assignment, she meets a centenarian with a unique musical past and only one regret in life. She can’t reconcile the joy that music would bring to her life while her brothers succumb to an early and ugly death. Claire decides her musical goals no longer seem relevant. When Claire and her family receive a devastating blow from Batten disease, her world enters a tailspin. It doesn’t help that her thoughts about him are turning romantic.
So when she has the opportunity to enter a prestigious contest, she goes all in-until she realizes she’s also competing against Juan, a close childhood friend and one of the most talented musicians she knows. Claire Fairchild, 14, has always known music would be her life.
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