Music journalist Harper Mitchell has spent two years living in the shadow of her dead mentor. Vera Chen was a legend at Reverb Magazine, the writer who could get any rockstar to talk, the woman who hired Harper to carry the torch — and then died before Harper was ready. Every editor still calls her Vera's protégé. Every assignment still feels like an audition.

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Until the email lands on a Tuesday morning.

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Declan Hart. Eight thousand words. Cover feature for Reverb's Genius Issue. Six weeks of full access.

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It's the story that could finally make Harper a name on her own.

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There's just one problem.

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Declan Hart, brooding British frontman of The Fracture, has been giving the same evasive, beautifully crafted non-answer to journalists for seven years. He doesn't talk about his lyrics. He doesn't talk about his past. He doesn't let anyone close enough to ask the real questions. And he has full approval rights over whatever Harper writes — which means his publicist can gut the piece and turn it into the kind of celebrity puff Harper has spent her whole career refusing to write.

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When she lands in Los Angeles the first morning of recording, Declan makes one thing clear: she's a journalist, he's a subject, and that's where the line is.

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Except every morning Harper shows up at the studio and asks better questions than the last one. Every night Declan goes home thinking about her. Every recording session puts them in the same room for hours, with the band, with the producer, with the work — and the line he drew on day one keeps getting harder to hold.

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Six weeks of forced proximity.

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A song he can't quite finish.

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A publicist who won't let him be honest.

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And a profile that could make Harper's career — or destroy Declan's last piece of privacy.

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Some stories aren't meant to be written.

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Some stories are meant to be lived.

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Off the Record is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers rockstar romance about two people who have spent their whole lives hiding behind their work — and the six weeks that finally taught them how to stop.

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Off The Record

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