Somewhere Between Memory and Music

🎓📚 Reunion: Coda is not a romance novel.

It’s a novel with romance. And music. And trauma. And a British-accented heartbreaker named Marty who sings Schubert like your soul depends on it.

If you’re the kind of reader who thinks “romance novel” means shirtless Fabio and windblown heroines, let me gently redirect you. This is a story about Jim Garraty—a Harvard-bound chorus nerd turned Columbia professor—who spends decades trying to make emotional sense of a letter he never should’ve written, a love he never quite voiced, and a pianist named Maddie who might just be the answer to a question he’s been asking since 1983.

There’s no heaving bosoms.

There is a heaving heart.

Also: campus drama, musical duets, Pan Am memorabilia, and one very awkward graduation ceremony.

If you’ve ever loved someone you couldn’t quite reach, or found healing in music, or wondered whether memory is a blessing or a trap—this book is for you.

And if you still think it’s a romance novel?

Fine. But it’s the kind that makes you cry in public and text your high school best friend at 2 a.m.

Available now. Bring tissues. And maybe a chorus teacher.