Dream Catchers Series • Book Six
Spotlight
Growing up famous doesn’t make finding yourself any easier.
Aylin Ashton has spent her entire life surrounded by rock stars, red carpets, and celebrity attention. But at twenty-one, she wants something that has always felt just out of reach — a life that belongs to her.
Dream Catchers Series • Book Six
About Spotlight
Aylin Ashton has never known what it’s like to be anonymous.
The daughter of rock star Jordan Walsh and celebrated photographer Haley Foster, Aylin grew up touring the world with her father’s band, walking red carpets, meeting celebrities, and living a life most people would only dream about.
But somewhere along the way, she missed out on being normal.
At twenty-one, Aylin wants more than the celebrity lifestyle her family is known for. She wants an identity of her own, friends who care about who she is instead of her last name, and a direction for her future that doesn’t depend on her parents.
Most of all, she wants the kind of love story Haley and Jordan have.
Unfortunately, romance isn’t going quite as smoothly as she’d hoped. After dead ends with an egotistical pop-rocker and a hipster music critic, Aylin can’t stop thinking about Colin Houlihan — the older, flirty Irish tour manager who has been part of her father’s world for years.
Aylin knows he’s too old for her.
She knows he’s off-limits.
And she keeps making passes at him anyway.
When Colin finally admits that the attraction isn’t entirely one-sided, the two find themselves on dangerous ground. What follows leaves Aylin hurt, confused, and forced to take a closer look at who she really is, what she actually wants, and whether the love she’s been searching for might be somewhere she never expected.
Spotlight is a coming-of-age romance about growing up in public, finding your own identity, making messy choices, and learning that the life you want may look very different from the one you imagined.
You’ll Love Spotlight If You Enjoy…
- Coming-of-age romance
- Celebrity and rock-star worlds
- Love triangles
- Age-gap attraction
- Forbidden or complicated crushes
- College-age heroines figuring out their future
- Famous-family dynamics
- Stories about identity and independence
- Messy romantic choices
- Next-generation stories featuring characters you watched grow up
What Readers Are Saying
“I think this series gets better and better! The characters, the stories, relationships, struggles, etc. I can’t wait to get started on Book 7!”
— Amazon Reviewer
“Spotlight focuses on Aylin, Jordan and Haley’s daughter. She’s all grown up, in college, and trying to figure out what her career goals are and who really has her back. Growing up with famous parents and being thrust into the spotlight, you never really know who your real friends are. Sandy gives us the classic love triangle in this book. I enjoyed this story so much and look forward to finding out what happens next for Aylin.”
— Amazon Reviewer
“This book is a page-turner for sure. I couldn’t put it down. Having been a dedicated reader of all of Sandy Lo’s books, I felt invested in the story of each character and could follow all of the relationships as if I were part of the family. I would definitely recommend this book.”
— Amazon Reviewer
Step Into Aylin’s Story
Behind Spotlight
Spotlight brings the Dream Catchers series into a new generation by placing Aylin Ashton at the center of this installment. Readers who followed Haley and Jordan from the beginning have also watched their daughter grow up within the world of Tortured, celebrity culture, and the extended Dream Catchers family.
Now an adult, Aylin faces a struggle that echoes her mother’s journey in the original Dream Catchers: feeling lost, lonely, and unsure of what she wants her life to become.
The difference is that Aylin has grown up with access to nearly everything. She’s traveled the world, met celebrities, walked red carpets, and lived behind the scenes of a famous rock band. Yet all of that experience hasn’t given her the things she craves most — independence, genuine friendships, and confidence in her own identity.
Her complicated attraction to Colin adds another layer to that search. Because Colin is part of Jordan’s professional world and has known Aylin through her famous family, the relationship forces her to confront the line between the life she inherited and the adult life she’s trying to create for herself.
The result is a story about love and attraction, but also about growing beyond your parents’ shadow and discovering who you are when no one else gets to define you.
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