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Arantxa Álvarez has a voice that can turn a dingy club into something holy. But in Crescent City, talent isn't enough. Not when you're a single mother singing for tips, not when the industry only wants pieces of you, and not when the only thing that numbs the hunger also threatens to take everything that matters.

Every night on stage, Arantxa pours her life into songs about empty refrigerators, goodnight kisses that taste like apologies, and the invisible crown she's still trying to wear. Offstage, she's drowning-chasing bigger gigs, bigger names, and the next high that might finally get her out. The men who promise to help her (the manager with the silver pen, the smooth operator with the gold chain) all want something in return. And the more she gives, the further she drifts from the one person who still believes in her: her daughter, Regina.

When the music stops saving her and starts destroying her, Arantxa is forced to confront the brutal truth: the dream she's been chasing might cost her the only thing she can't afford to lose. To find her way back, she'll have to decide what kind of voice she wants to be remembered for-and whether she's willing to sing it without the spotlight, the pills, or the lies.

For readers who loved the raw ambition and personal cost in Daisy Jones & The Six, First Verse delivers an unflinching, single-mother perspective on the music industry's toll.

Book details

• Full title: First Verse
• Subtitle: An Urban Women's Fiction Novella of Music, Addiction, and a Mother's Fight to Survive
• Author: Bruce Grant
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178
• EAN: 9798186402114
• ID: 53207946
• Publisher: Independently published
• Weight: 184 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. July 2026

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