Never Say Never

· Lloyd W Sumner
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109
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🎸 What if the melody that saves your family from poverty becomes the very cage that locks you away from the world? At just thirteen, Julian Cressmere constructs a private sanctuary out of a secondhand acoustic guitar to escape the freezing Canadian winter and the crushing weight of his mother’s unpaid bills. But when a raw, bedroom-recorded video unexpectedly goes viral, it ignites a terrifying engine of global obsession. Overnight, Julian is no longer a boy who loves to sing; he is an "asset"—a multi-million-dollar corporate product managed by an ambitious kingmaker and hunted by a desperate, screaming sea of fans.

🎤 As Julian is swept into the high-stakes music industry from Atlanta to New York, his private escape transforms into a cold, mechanical assembly line. Forced to endure grueling studio sessions, chemically mask his failing vocal cords, and sign away his future autonomy, he watches the walls of stardom close in. The higher he climbs on the global charts, the more isolated his physical world becomes, slowly severing the bond with his fiercely protective mother.

💿 Dive into a hauntingly beautiful, character-driven music industry drama that pulls back the curtain on the true cost of viral fame. This emotional, gripping novel explores the toxic reality of public obsession, corporate exploitation, and the devastating loss of identity in a world that refuses to let a prodigy just be a kid.

🎸 What if the melody that saves your family from poverty becomes the very cage that locks you away from the world? At just thirteen, Julian Cressmere constructs a private sanctuary out of a secondhand acoustic guitar to escape the freezing Canadian winter and the crushing weight of his mother’s ...

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