Twisted
Lost in Oblivion • Book 2
by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott
Why You'll Love This
A foster brother who became her protector, her bandmate, and the one secret that could shatter everything — this is the love story neither of them planned.
- Great if you want: forbidden slow-burn romance with real emotional and musical stakes
- The experience: intimate and tension-loaded, especially once the secret starts unraveling
- The writing: Quinn and Elliott layer vulnerability under banter — the heat earns its weight
- Skip if: found-family romance dynamics make you uncomfortable
About This Book
Rock stardom looks different from the inside—cramped tour buses, tangled histories, and feelings that have nowhere to hide. In Twisted, Gray and Jazz have spent years circling each other, bound first by a foster-family connection and then by something far more complicated. He has always been her protector; she has always been his blind spot. Now they're bandmates in Oblivion, sharing close quarters and building something together professionally just as the personal stakes quietly reach a breaking point. The emotions here run deep and specific—not the breathless collision of strangers, but the slower, more devastating ache of two people who already know each other's damage and choose to stay anyway.
Cari Quinn and Taryn Elliott write with an easy, lived-in intimacy that makes the band feel real and the relationship feel earned. The dual-perspective structure gives readers equal ground inside both Gray's and Jazz's heads, which keeps the tension honest rather than manufactured—you understand exactly why each of them hesitates, and that understanding is what makes every page feel genuinely loaded. The romance rewards patience, and the authors never mistake heat for depth, delivering both in generous measure.