Steal the Spotlight

Laura Phillips has given everything to her family: her time, her body, her dreams. When her husband leaves her for the local weather girl, Laura doesn’t just lose her marriage. She loses the life she built around it. After the heartbreak settles, all she wants is to win him back. Fix it. Fix herself. Hungry to remind him of what he lost, she joins a local cardio hip-hop class. She expects sweat and sore muscles, not Roman Graham—gritty, magnetic, and maddeningly observant. With every beat, every breathless routine, he pulls pieces of her to the surface she thought were long gone.

Larger-than-life actress Jayana “Yana” Gardner arrives in New York certain her big break has finally come. She’s got a casting director boyfriend, an ensemble role on Broadway, and just enough hope to believe things are falling into place. Then everything falls apart. One breakup. One lost job. One eviction later, Yana is single, unemployed, and very much not thriving in a city that does not care.