Dear Reader,

I can’t believe the ending for the Brilliance Trilogy is finally here! Kace and Aria have totally consumed me for the past few months and writing their story and returning to Chris and Sara, and Mark and Crystal has been like coming home. As always, I’m going to give a brief recap of book two to make sure you’re ready for A Sinful Encore! So if you haven’t read books one and two, please be sure to read those before reading any further.

When we picked up with A Wicked Song (book two) Aria was on the run from Kace, having found out he knew her true identity as Aria Stradivari. When he catches up with her at minor medical as she’s getting the cut on her hand mended, he’s furious to find her with Alexander. Alexander being someone who has been pursuing a professional relationship with Aria, but crossing the lines of decorum to get under Kace’s skin, as they have a torrid history that hasn’t been divulged yet. Once he gets rid of Alexander, Kace begs Aria to forgive him, and tells her they once met several years ago when he studied with her father for a week. He was never after her for the formula to the Stradivarius violin, he just wanted to confirm his suspicions she was who he thought she was.

Aria believes him. He’s been her rock, and she can’t deny their passion and connection. After all, she showed up in his life first, not the other way around. As Aria mends, she and Kace continue their search for her brother, Gio. But odd things keep popping up, a faint smell of perfume in the hallway at Aria’s shop, blacked out times on her camera feeds, and eerie voicemails with no one on the other end. Kace and Aria decide it’s time to loop Walker Security into her real identity so they can help find Gio, and protect them from whoever is threatening them.

As Kace and Aria grow closer, they also make some big life changes. Kace is all in with Aria, he wants to assuage some of her heavy financial load, which includes buying the building her business and apartment are in, and putting it in her name. Despite Aria protests, she agrees and eventually agrees to move in with him. They settle into a new life together, and they set out to San Francisco for another charity event with Kace and Chris Merit. And although there is still a lot that plagues them, an even worse threat comes up in the form of Alexander. He finally gets his way and viciously spouts Kace’s dark secret publicly. Kace ended his relationship with Maggie, a producer who he only sought companionship with. When he realized she was in too deep, he cut ties. She immediately jumped into Alexander’s bed and they plotted to buy the rights to one of Kace’s songbooks out from under him. They made an ungodly amount of money off of his recordings. Kace took out vengeance against Maggie first, and sadly took her own life, or so it seemed. Kace and Aria both have their own speculations that Alexander may have been behind Maggie’s death, and staged it as suicide to cut Kace where he hurt, as he knew Kace’s sister had committed suicide years ago and it still plagues him—it’s the entire reason he and Chris do these charity events.. But outwardly, Alexander blames Kace and wants him to suffer, hence him playing games with Aria.

In the aftermath of Alexander’s tirade, Kace a breakdown. He tries to push Aria away, but she knows who he really is and she fights for their present and their future. As she pulls him back to the light, the fallout has left its mark on them, but it has also brought them closer. Upon returning to New York, they didn’t know how much more the worlds were going to be upturned when they walk into Aria’s shop to find Gio standing there, beyond pissed to find Aria in Kace’s arms. And that’s where we pick up, with Gio, Aria and Kace in a faceoff…