Bended Duet
Sometimes breaking
free costs
everything.
When your twin steals your dreams, how far will you go to find your own?
Tristen Levisay's life implodes when his twin brother Talon leaves their band, The Seethers, for a shot at fame with Art of Rendering. Jobless, nearly homeless, and watching his girlfriend's career soar while his stalls, Tristen returns to small-town Kentucky where his mother faces foreclosure.
Desperate for cash, he agrees to three underground boxing matches with his biological father, a man he's spent years avoiding. But as Tristen navigates bruising fights, a crumbling relationship, and his brother's betrayals, he's forced to confront a harder truth: he's spent his entire life in Talon's shadow, and breaking free might cost him everything he thought he wanted.
Tristen’s brother took his dream. His girlfriend chose fame over him. His past is catching up. But maybe losing everything is exactly what Tristen needs to become the man he wants to be.
Read the prequel to Bended Loyalty
There was one fight. One choice. One night that started it all.
When nineteen-year-old Tristen Levisay defies orders to throw a fight against his twin brother in an underground boxing match, one moment of defiance costs him his home, his family, and forces him to leave small-town Kentucky with nothing but three thousand dollars and a dream of something better.
Can love mend what life has broken?
Scarlett has spent five years quietly raising her sister's son while trying to build a baking business from nothing, but when her fragile world starts crumbling she meets Tristen, a tattooed musician who sees past her insecurities to the fierce, loyal woman beneath.
As Tristen watches Scarlett's unconditional love for Ben, he's forced to reconsider his own situation: should he fight the court's decision declaring him father to his identical twin's baby, or follow Scarlett's example and choose love over biology? Together, they'll discover that the strongest families aren't always the ones you're born into—they're the ones you're brave enough to fight for.
What Kind of Series Is This?
If you’re craving coming-of-age novels that grip you and never let go, that aren’t afraid to dig into the darker side of life and poverty and trauma and give a way of hope out of those paths then…
The Bended Duet is for you.
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