From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging crime novel, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family—or murder—wrecks everything.
Dahlia “Doll” Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs. Now she’s the star of her own stage at McPhee’s Tavern. As part of Chicago’s—yes Chicago’s—country music scene, Dahlia is an up-and-coming singer in spangles and boots of classic country tunes. That is, until her boyfriend up and went, taking the rent money with him.

Dahlia is back to square one, relying on Alex McPhee—again. Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother. Now he’s part landlord, part band booster, all-around rescuer. Dahlia just wishes she didn’t keep giving him reasons to have to do it.

Just as Dahlia suspects she’s scraped rock bottom, the mother she hasn’t spoken to in twenty years shows up. The next morning, a distraught young woman arrives at the bar, asking after her missing mother—Dahlia's mother, too, even if the missing suburban mom the girl describes sounds different from the one who let Dahlia down all those years ago.

Though no one is using the word sister anytime soon, Dahlia is drawn into reuniting the family that might've been hers. But when a body is discovered outside McPhee’s Tavern, the crime threatens not just the place Dahlia has made into a home, but everything she’s believed about her past, her dreams for the future, and the people she was, maybe, beginning to let into her heart.