Jared Page and Joey Seever have a complicated relationship. They’re ex-lovers and former band members who still play together musically on occasion. Whenever Joey needs someone to fill in for a gig, Jared is the one he calls, despite their past history and the fact that Joey hadn’t wanted to take their relationship to the next level -- marriage -- and then cheated on him. Jared still has feelings for Joey even after all these years, though he’s become bitter and resentful.<br><br>The next time Jared fills in for a gig, he finds out that Joey has slept with a band member named Grady. Worse, Joey messed things up by cheating on Grady just like he had with Jared. In the fallout that follows, Jared says and does some things he instantly regrets.<br><br>He knows their friendship is worth saving, and he wants another chance at Joey’s heart, too. But there are things in Joey’s past that keep him running from commitment. Can they mend their relationship? Will Jared be able to convince Joey that love is nothing to fear, and marriage is just music to which to say, “I Do?”

Let the Music Say I Do

&ldquo;One day, when I was seventeen, Dad caught me playing and singing over at a friend&rsquo;s trailer near the woods. He dragged me out of there, beat me up, and called me every ugly name you could think of. Told me I was a jokeand a waste of space. To add insult to injury, he broke my guitar, the only thing I had left of my mom and the one thing that had never left me or let me down.


&ldquo;I ran away. Forget school&mdash;I just wanted out and a new life far away from him, from the shame that was baked into my skin, it seemed. Of course, I was on the streets for a while &lsquo;cause I had nowhere to go. Learned how to fend for myself. One day, I found a guitar in a dumpster someone had tossed out the back of the pawn shop near where I peddled sometimes.


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