The Drum Major's Rival
A Band Camp Enemies-to-Lovers Romance

About this book:

Maya Lin has spent three years perfecting every angle, every count, every breath—because in marching band, precision isn't optional. It's survival. Then Gavin Vance strolls onto the second podium in a vintage tee and a lazy grin, and Mr. Sterling drops the bomb: co-drum majors. One whistle. One show. One solo conducting spot at State. And absolutely no intention of sharing.

What follows is a masterclass in sabotage disguised as leadership. Competing water schedules. Passive-aggressive drill rewrites. A war fought in metronome clicks and cutting remarks across the fifty-yard line. But between the brutal two-a-days and the late-night band room standoffs, the lines blur. Gavin's chaos starts looking like instinct. Maya's control starts feeling like a cage. And every time their batons cross, the air crackles with something that has nothing to do with the music.

One band. One sound. Two rivals who can't decide if they want to destroy each other or disappear into the rhythm together. The halftime show is coming. Only one of them gets the spotlight. But the real performance? It's happening off the field, in the spaces between the beats, where pride meets something far more dangerous—and the final downbeat changes everything.