Backstage Pass

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Pacie Damico has spent most of his life learning how to survive without anyone. His father died when he was seven. His mother's addiction and arrests eventually landed him in foster care at fourteen. Now eighteen and aged out of the system, Pacie has no home, no money, and a rare inherited illness he can barely afford to treat. So he does the only thing he can think of. He starts looking for family. What he finds is Ryker Damico. Lead singer of After Dark. Famous rock star. Father. And apparently, Pacie's older half brother. Getting close enough to tell him is another problem entirely. Pacie spends nearly everything he has on a backstage pass, only for Ryker to laugh off his claim as another fan trying to force their way into his life. Hurt, furious, and desperate for money for his overdue treatment, Pacie makes a choice that lands him in police custody. That's where Ryker finally starts paying attention. Because Pacie isn't coming down from drugs like everyone assumes. Ryker recognizes sick when he sees it, and when he learns Pacie has the same rare genetic condition as his six-year-old son, Quinton, one impossible story suddenly becomes a lot harder to dismiss. A DNA test gives Pacie what he went looking for. A brother. But becoming part of Ryker's life also means becoming part of After Dark's world, and fame comes with a price Pacie never agreed to pay. Reporters dig through foster homes, medical problems, arrests, his mother's history, and the drinking Pacie has used for years to cope with everything he would rather forget. To the public, he becomes a headline. To Ryker, he's becoming a little brother. And Pacie isn't sure which scares him more: having the whole world find out how badly his life fell apart, or finally having a family worth losing. BACKSTAGE PASS Sometimes getting through the door is the easy part.