We shouldn’t have been able to write this beautiful song, but we did with God’s help. I shouldn’t have been able to write these books but I have, with God’s help. And I’m looking at the impossible task of writing scripts for episodes and thinking I won’t be able to figure it out, but I will… with God’s help.

This is the first song in my third YAS novel, Young And Safe. It’s baseline for Viva’s worldview. My FMC has been scared so long she doesn’t know fear unless a shark’s in the room. She can’t see the leeches slowly killing her.

Tech went dark, but it's coming back over a decade later. Paul is discovering playlists for the first time and he's not a fan of this song. It calls him out for some selfish stuff and he doesn't want to hear it.

Ally is thirteen, reflecting on young childhood and making new connections. Faced with a friendship mess of her own making, she’s tempted to run away. The words of this familiar song come back to her through the whistled tune of a knowing mentor.

Never Never by Rooi and Matthew Riley. Lyrics taken from a favorite scene in Rooi’s first novel, set to music in a late-night jam session.

Ally is safe at home. But she doesn’t feel safe and she doesn’t feel seen. Step into one of Ally’s stories from Rooi Riley’s Seen as imagined and animated by Matthew Arias and Emily Stubbs.

Enjoy another side-quest song from Rooi and Matthew Riley. Rooi wrote these lyrics for a scene in her first novel, Young and Seen.