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What happens when the music
finds you before the man does?
Jaxon Dade has spent fifteen years building a career as Smooth — one of the most respected producers in R&B — without ever showing his face to the public. No interviews. No appearances. Just the music. What no one knows is that his four most personal albums were written about one woman. And she has been buying them since they came out.
Liana Branson has built a life of order and quiet conviction. Professionally accomplished, spiritually grounded, and carefully guarded, she has not allowed herself to want what she once walked away from. She has been playing Smooth's music for years. She loves it. She has no idea who he is.
Then Jaxon does something he has never done. He sits down for an interview about his final album, HER. He shows his face for the first time. He launches AreYouHer.com with a single question directed at one woman. Liana recognizes him. She understands what the music has always been. And she has seven days to decide whether the woman she has become is ready to answer the question the boy on Bus B-22 never stopped asking.
"She loved the music before she knew it was him."
What this story is really about
Music as Confession
Jaxon says in music what he could never say in words. Four albums. Fifteen years. One woman.
Faith Before Romance
Liana's faith is not decoration. It is the foundation that determines what she will and will not accept.
Second Chances
Not the kind that come easy. The kind that cost you something and ask you to be someone you weren't the first time.
Emotional Restraint
The tension between what is felt and what is said. The discipline of love that knows how to wait.
Memory and Regret
Pittsburgh holds everything. The bus. The walk home. The hoodie. The apple cut in half.
Timing and Maturity
They were not ready the first time. The question is whether they are ready now.