Ever since Homecoming, Aria Gray’s mind has been a skipping mixtape. Her thoughts remain stuck on the repeating track of that a fuzzy television screen, a stack of paper plates, hands pressed firmly upon her shoulders… the menacing grin. Things weren’t meant to turn out this way. With Brock Miller’s sentence finally approaching, Aria believed her life would go back to normal. She was supposed to create a new playlist full of memories with her friends. Instead, she is left struggling to hear the notes, and no matter how much she turns up the volume, the songs won’t PLAY. Emma Stewart is determined to help her best friend, no matter the cost. She knows that Aria needs to find a way to let the music back in. Dancing always worked for Emma. That is, until the tracks to her own playlist suddenly switched tempo, and now she must learn to adjust her body to the changing choreography. But with each step she takes, the notes blend further and further together until the songs start to SKIP and the disc becomes scratched. Then, the tracks just STOP. How can she dance when there is no music?