Short Novel Collection
LOVE
A Friendship Worth Fighting For
Nashville, Tennessee
In Nashville, two friends find their loyalty tested by musical ambition, family pressure, and questions of creative ownership. Staying beside each other will require more than shared history when telling the truth carries a cost.
Biblical foundation: 1 Samuel 18 through 20
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The courage to stay.
Simon Orlan has spent his life helping other people's music be heard. Tobin Marr has spent years trying to find someone who will listen. An unexpected performance brings them together, and the friendship that follows becomes more important than either man knows how to say.
When Simon's father demands a false account of who wrote their music, the future Simon has been promised comes with a price. Tobin faces a different offer: an opportunity that could turn his friend's private pain into a public story.
Set in Nashville, LOVE is a story of friendship without romance, of loyalty that must survive mistakes, and of the frightening relief of being chosen when there is nothing left to offer. At its heart is a question neither success nor sacrifice can answer alone: will you still be here?
Includes an Inspiration Note on David and Jonathan's friendship in 1 Samuel 18 through 20.
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- English
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- 16,993 words · 63 page PDF
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Includes controlling family dynamics, professional manipulation, threatened livelihood, estrangement, and emotional conflict.
Word count includes headings and end notes in the complete EPUB; it is not a reading-time estimate.
Nonromantic male friendship · Music · Creative ownership · Family influence · Loyalty · Belonging · Truth
Scripture and story
Biblical foundation
1 Samuel 18 through 20
3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David with his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.
The Inspiration Note draws on David and Jonathan’s covenant friendship while keeping the novel’s people and professional conflict distinct from Scripture.
World English Bible (WEB), Classic edition. Public domain.
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