What They Say

Chase Mason has been the outsider all his short life. Raised by a single mother who preferred not to remember she had a son at all, he didn’t meet his father until he was twelve. Not his dad’s fault. According to Davis Mason, as soon as he knew Chase was breathing, he bent the fabric of the world to be with him. That felt good, too good to be trusted, because Chase knew from bitter experience that everybody lied.But Mason kept every promise. To his son. To his family. To his brothers in the Rebel Wayfarers MC. Watching his father turn himself inside out to do right by the club, Chase wanted a piece of that loyalty for himself. Even a sliver would be more love than he’d ever known.Then Benny, the charismatic leader of the rock band Occupy Yourself and brother to one of Mason’s closest friends, saw the lost kid and refused to let him stay that way. Benny wedged his way into Chase’s guarded world, teaching him guitar, dragging him onstage, and forging an unbreakable bond of friendship that felt like the realest thing Chase had ever known.The first time the stage lights hit him, terror stole his breath. Then the music took over. In those blinding moments, Chase discovered something he wanted more than air: a place where his soul finally felt alive. Making music wasn’t just a performance-it was salvation.But the road to redemption is never straight. Old demons whisper louder than the cheers of the crowd, and the truths hidden in the spotlight threaten everything Chase has built. As addiction, loss, and the weight of what people say try to pull him under, Chase must decide if the family he’s found in the club, in the band, and in the man who refuses to let him hide, if they can help him become the man he was always meant to be.