Sounds Like Love

by Ashley Poston • 2025

Jolene Byrd is a hitmaker—the songwriter who comes up with melodies that fill your heart and get stuck in your head. She should be on top of the world, but she’s burning herself out—fast—and she’s not sure she has another song to give. When she’s called home for a slap-dash wedding between her brother and her best friend, her parents break the news that in the wake of her mother being unwell, they’ve decided to close The Revelry, her family’s music venue where she grew up. She can’t possibly concentrate on writing when her life is falling apart. Then a melody comes to her—half-formed and lyric-less—and when she chases after it, she realizes it’s not just a song stuck in her head…but a voice, too. The voice belongs to a frustrated, wry musician—Sasha—who insists he’s on the brink of a comeback if only he can write a hit song. The only thing Jolene and Sasha can agree on is that they’ll do anything to get out of the other’s head. Including collaborate on a song—the one to get her out of her writer’s block and him his new hit. As they weave perfect notes together and chart the course of the chorus, the melody takes shape into a something that will change both of their lives forever—if it doesn’t end in heartbreak first.