Selling Out

Title: Selling Out

Series: Sheppards in Love #3

Author: Martha Keyes

Narrators: Ariel Royce and Christopher Rourke

Source: Hoopla

My Review:

Selling Out is the third book in the Sheppards in Love series. The series focuses on the Sheppard siblings, and I recommend reading the books in order.

I am enjoying this series, and it was fun to get Austin's story. I loved his and Mia's meet-cute. While the story started out as enemies to more, it quickly moved to friendship plus more. 

Mia is an aspiring musician and needs to tour with Austin if she wants to boost her career. Unfortunately, she has strong opinions about him and his music. She is afraid that if she joins his tour, she will be selling out. However, she decides to go anyway.

I like their chemistry and banter. I also appreciated the character growth they both had. There is nothing easy about the music industry, and they both had to make some tough decisions. Overall, a cute, quick read (or listen). 

★★★★/5

Synopsis (Goodreads):  

The only thing more daunting than singing in front of sold-out crowds across Europe? Facing the music when you start falling for the guy in the spotlight.
AUSTIN
After years of working my tail off in the music industry, I’ve finally made it: headlining my own tour across Europe. Sure, it’d be great to sing my own songs instead of the stuff my label gives me, but success requires compromise.

It also requires a stellar tour team, which is why I know I have to have Mia Sawyer as one of my backup vocalists when I hear her sing. With thousands of women screaming my name on stage every night, it shouldn’t bother me that she doesn’t seem to think much of me. I don’t have time for real relationships anyway.

MIA
Austin Sheppard is the exact type of man and “musician” I roll my eyes at. But since my own following on social media is stagnant enough that it’s bound to start attracting mosquitoes soon, I figure this may be the only opportunity I have to get paid to sing—and to see Europe, for that matter. For an opportunity like that? I can keep my opinions to myself.

Life on tour with Austin gives me a front-row seat to everything I wish I could have as a musician. It also puts me constantly and perilously close to the man I’ve pegged as a womanizer and a sell-out. So close, in fact, that I’m starting to worry the next sell-out will be my heart.