The Anonymous Accompanist

Claire Duval buried her past the day her hands failed her on stage. Now she hides behind a screen as OpusNo23, a brilliant ghost composer for a ruthless, invisible music mogul known only as E.V. Her carefully guarded solitude shatters when Elai—a stranger with whiskey-rough charm and secrets in his eyes—walks into her Portland music shop seeking refuge. He sees past her scars to the fire she thought she'd lost forever. But Elai is running from a life of suffocating fame, and he's the very man hunting OpusNo23's identity. As their real-world chemistry ignites and their anonymous digital collision looms, neither knows they're falling for the same person twice. When the masks slip and the truth detonates, will it destroy them—or prove that the music they heard in each other was real all along? A slow-burn romance of dual identities, second chances, and the courage to be seen.