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Flap Copy

Aarzu has one rule for herself: never let anyone see her without a cricket ball in her hand.

After the death of her parents, she moves in with her uncle — and inherits his rules along with his roof. Girls don't play cricket. Girls don't run, sweat, or dream of stadiums. Aarzu breaks the rule anyway, in secret, until her sister falls ill and the medical bills pile up faster than she can hide them.

So she cuts her hair, becomes a boy in the eyes of everyone but herself, and takes a job no girl is supposed to want, one that finally lets her play the game she loves, out loud, for the first time.

A win, win right? But disguises don't just hide who you are. They start to reshape who you're becoming.

Aarzu All Around is a coming-of-age story about girlhood, friendship, and the quiet defiance of wanting more than you're allowed to want, one hard-earned run at a time.

Flap Copy

Luciana "Lula" Gabroni was born to sing. She isn't sure anymore if that was ever really a gift.

She's chosen for an elite ensemble bound for a prestigious music festival in Venice. It should be the future she's trained for her whole life. Then an attack nearly steals her voice for good. And with it, the girl she thought she was becoming.

In the Conservatory library, she finds Barbara Strozzi. A singer from another century, whose life eerily echoes her own. The same stages. The same men who confuse adoration with ownership. The same unbearable weight of being told you're extraordinary before you've had the chance to choose it.

Lula begins to trace her. Page by page, city by city, note by note. Until the distance between them starts to disappear entirely.

Some voices aren't meant to find each other. But some stories refuse to stay buried.

The Siren and the Star is a spellbinding novel-in-verse about legacy, obsession, and the cost of a voice too powerful to silence.