Next to writing, music is the other half of my life; it speaks what sometimes cannot be spoken or conveyed through words. I always listen to themed music when I’m working hard on the ivory keys—actually, I can’t play piano, but it sounds cooler than “keyboard”—to really get me into a scene. The songs below are ones that I religiously listened to while writing one of my favorite stories (my sisters were fairly sick of these songs by the time I penned the last page). So, when you’re reading “Chasing Shadows,” be sure to give these songs a listen to put you in the moment. 

CHAPTER 1:

            Avicii — Wake Me Up

CHAPTER 2:

            Jason Reeves — The End

CHAPTER 3:

            Schuyler Fisk — Waking Life

CHAPTER 4:

            Ben Howard — The Fear

CHAPTER 5:

            Nico and Vinz — Am I Wrong

CHAPTER 6:

            The Script — The End Where I Begin

CHAPTER 7:

            Switchfoot — Slipping Away

            Penny and Sparrow — Brothers

CHAPTER 8:

            Josh Rosenthal — No More Lies

CHAPTER 9:

            The Workday Release — A Starlit Sky

CHAPTER 10:

            YPPAH — Never Mess with Sunday

CHAPTER 11:

            Levi Robin — Breathe Easy

CHAPTER 12:

            Bastille — Bad Blood

CHAPTER 13:

            Jason Walker — Down

            Keith Urban — Stupid Boy

CHAPTER 14:

            Hunter Hayes — You Think You Know Somebody

CHAPTER 15:

            Need to Breathe — Won’t Turn Back

CHAPTER 16:

            Danny Elfman — Oz, the Great and Powerful

CHAPTER 17:

            Brand X Music — Sorcerer’s Secret

CHAPTER 18:

            Hurts — Unspoken

CHAPTER 19:

            Kacey Musgraves — Back on the Map

CHAPTER 20:

            Lady Antebellum — Learning to Fly (cover)

CHAPTER 21:

            Augustana — Borrowed Time

CHAPTER 22:

            The Weepies — Can’t Go Back Now

            One Republic — Feel Again

CHAPTER 23:

            Hunter Hayes — All You Ever

CHAPTER 24:

            The Civil Wars — Dust to Dust

CHAPTER 25:

            Two Steps from Hell — Resistance is Fatal

CHAPTER 26:

            X Ambassadors — Unsteady

CHAPTER 27:

            Mads Langer — Fact-Fiction

            Jan Kaczmarek — Finding Neverland

CHAPTER 28:

            Gabrielle Aplin — Start of Time

CHAPTER 29:

            Jimmy Eat World — Hear You Me

            Florence and the Machine — Heavy in Your Arms

CHAPTER 30:

            Sean Fournier — Goodbye

            In the Nursery — Kryptka

CHAPTER 31:

            Switchfoot — When the World Caves In

CHAPTER 32:

            Parachute — Hurricane

CHAPTER 33:

            Brand X Music — Curious Developments

CHAPTER 34:

            Greg Laswell — Comes and Goes (in Waves)

CHAPTER 35:

            Ray LaMontagne —Be Here Now

CHAPTER 36:

            Ed Sheeran — Give Me Love

            Abel Korzeniowski — First Kiss

CHAPTER 37:

            Christina Perri — A Thousand Years

CHAPTER 38:

            Bastille — The Draw

CHAPTER 39:

            Two Steps from Hell — Black Blade

CHAPTER 40:

            One Republic — Burning Bridges

CHAPTER 41:

            Tom Petty — Square One

CHAPTER 42:

            Avicii — Heart Upon My Sleeve

CHAPTER 43:

            Husky – History’s Door

CHAPTER 44:

            Red Jumpsuit Apparatus — Cat and Mouse

CHAPTER 45:

            Adele — Skyfall

            Sons of Sylvia — John Wayne

CHAPTER 46:

            Brand X Music — All or Nothing

CHAPTER 47:

            Blackmill — Journey’s End

CHAPTER 48:

            Kodaline — All I Want

CHAPTER 49:

            Of Monsters and Men — Silhouettes

CHAPTER 50:

            Lord Huron — Ends of the Earth

EPILOGUE:

            Radical Face — Welcome Home