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Must I Go Bound

Available March 17

Jude Hale built his life on music — on crowded rooms, bright stage lights, and the certainty that came from knowing exactly how to hold an audience in the palm of his hand. Control was the foundation of everything he created: the sound, the rhythm, the life that grew around it.

For years, Wren Calloway loved him inside that world.

But devotion, when held too tightly, can become something else entirely.

When Wren finally walks away from the life they built together, the silence she leaves behind is louder than any crowd Jude has ever faced. For the first time in his life, the man who has always relied on precision and control is forced to confront the space he never allowed — in his music, in his life, and in the way he loved her.

Distance changes things. Time does, too.

As their lives move forward in separate directions, the echoes of what they once were refuse to fade. Old memories linger in familiar places, and the past remains quietly unfinished.

Set against the backdrop of music, distance, and the difficult work of personal growth, Must I Go Bound is a story about love that doesn’t disappear simply because two people let go — and the quiet courage it takes to learn what love truly asks of us.