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Book Launch: "Score" with Kennedy Ryan.
Mon, May 18
|Mother AME Zion Church
Join us for a soulful night to celebrate the release of "Score;" the second book in Hollywood Renaissance series with Kennedy Ryan and WeezyWTF grounded in the jazz vocals of Jillian Grace.
Time & Location
May 18, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Mother AME Zion Church, 140 W 137th St, New York, NY 10030
About the Event
About the Book: A scorching second-chance romance between a talented screenwriter and a phenomenal musician from the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Let Go.
"A triumph of art and emotion." —Talia Hibbert, New York Times bestselling author
You never forget your first love. Isn't that what they say? Verity Hill knows this truth intimately. She didn't simply miss Wright "Monk" Bellamy when they parted ways in college. She's haunted by his touch. Every kiss, any lover since—it's a shadow of what they had.
Time heals all wounds. Isn't that what they say? Monk doesn't believe that for a second. He wasn't simply betrayed when he and Verity split. He was devastated, with parts of him left behind in the ruins of all that was destroyed.
More than a decade after their disastrous breakup, Verity and Monk must work together on the set of an epic…