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Declan Hale hasn’t written a song in three years. The Nashville songwriter turned bartender is perfectly content pouring drinks at The Neon Spur — a legendary honky-tonk that’s been the heartbeat of Music City since 1952. He’s fine. Really. He doesn’t miss the music at all.

Wren Castillo is a Chicago data analyst who just inherited a bar she’s never seen in a city she’s never visited. Her plan: assess the property, sell it, fly home. Simple. Efficient. Except The Neon Spur isn’t simple — it’s warm and weird and full of history. And the brooding bartender with the nice hands keeps telling her she can’t order vodka soda in a honky-tonk.

Oh, and there’s the jukebox. The one that plays songs matching whatever you’re actually feeling, whether you want it to or not. The one that cranks up “Can’t Help Falling in Love” every time Wren and Declan are in the same room.

When a heritage board threatens to rezone the bar into condos, Wren and Declan strike a deal: three weeks to prove the bar matters. Somewhere between fake-dating for the board, planning community events, and trying to ignore a jukebox that keeps exposing their feelings, Wren discovers she might have more passion than anyone gave her credit for — and Declan discovers the song he’s been waiting to write has been sitting across the bar all along.

Every Song Knows is a standalone clean paranormal romantic comedy about a woman who thinks she’s too logical for love and a man who thinks he’s lost his music — set in a Nashville honky-tonk with a jukebox that always tells the truth. Features fake dating that stops being fake approximately three chapters in, a heritage board presentation that will make you cry, and a love song that was worth the three-year wait.

Part of the Charmed & Chaotic collection — standalone novels connected by magical objects, small-town charm, and love that starts with a spark and ends with a swoony happily ever after. Can be read in any order.