Grace Note

A Cake Series Novel

By: J. Bengtsson

Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Zachary Webber

I’m the privileged youngest child of the famous McKallister family. He’s a runaway foster kid living rough. We were never meant to meet. This is where our story begins. It’s nowhere near how it ends.

Grace

The beat. The cheers. The thrill of the unknown. I shouldn’t leave the safety of the music arena—my last name is McKallister, after all, and I’m intimately familiar with worst-case scenarios. But I’m drawn by the talent and the turmoil behind the weary eyes of the drummer on the streets. I’ve never seen anyone my age as wild and unrestrained, a lightning bolt of electricity that never hits the same spot on his bucket drums twice. He plays with such confidence, such rage. I have to know who he is and where he learned to bang out drum solos like he owns the night. I want to help him. No, to save him. If only Rory will let me.

Rory

When I play, I’m in my element. I know how to draw a crowd and how to keep them riveted. For a small period of time every day, I’m special. Talented. Going somewhere. Little do they know I’m going back to nothing: no family, no friends, no roof over my head. When the music ends, I fade into the background like the undesirable I am. And then she shows up, so pretty and polished and pure. I don’t expect her to stay and talk. I definitely don’t expect her to sit down on the sidewalk and drum a song onto my thigh. Yet here she is—anyone’s ultimate dream girl—promising to save me. Too bad Grace stumbled upon me a decade too late.

A bonus epilogue was written a month after the audiobook was completed. To read, please go to my website: jbengtssonbooks.com and look under the Grace Note book or audiobook for the free link.

©2023 J. Bengtsson (P)2023 J. Bengtsson

Not to be missed!!

Grace Note is the perfect addition to the perfect series. Zachary Webber and Andu Arndt flawlessly portray star crossed lovers who conquer life and love. Not to be missed!

More Grace and Rory, Please!!!!

I absolutely loved this book! Grace and Rory’s story gives us some more pieces of the Cake story and I’m impressed with the details the author reveals in these books about how Jake’s horrific experience affected each of his family members. As usual, Bengtsson delivers fantastic character development; clever and entertaining dialogue; authentic, relatable characters with all the feels and a story that I didn’t want to end including a perfect bonus epilogue. Jill expertly weaves multiple timeframes and storylines together to give the reader just enough detail and background from the rest of the series for this story to make sense. I loved the appearances of the much beloved characters from the other books. The narrators were perfectly cast. Zachary Webber delivers a powerful performance as Rory. His portrayal of little kids as well as regular flawed people is just amazing; sweet, funny, touching, poignant - he just evokes all the feels having you cracking up one minute and tearing up the next. Andi Arndt really is one of the best female narrators ever and her performance as Grace as a little girl, a teen and as a young woman was perfect. It’d be hard not to fall in love with sweet, strong Grace but we do get to see a realistic side of her that Andi portrays so well. She shows us an imperfect Grace with vulnerability that is endearing. All in all, this is one of my favorites of the Cake series. I definitely want more Grace and Rory!!

LOVED Grace Note!

This was the perfect ending to the siblings stories in this series! I loved Grace and Rory’s story!
Andi Arndt and Zachary Webber were amazing bringing this book to life - I love all their work in the CAKE series!

Wow...J. Bengtsson does it again!

Seriously, each book in Cake is better than the next. Rory and Grace, I think their story is one of my favorites at this point. I am not sure how to even put into words how much I loved this book, if I could give it ten stars I would, five doesn't seem worthy. If you haven't started this series, you need to. If you have and are debating reading this one, do it! You won't be sorry. It will pull at your heart strings and leave you stunned with it's beauty.

What's not to love

Say it isn't so. The last book in the Cake series. Truly loved it. The story flowed well. it had all the right everything to make it worthy of my credit. I love this series. I re-listen to all of the books very often. Jill is a great storyteller. Zachary and Andi are simply the best. Throughly enjoyed this final story.