This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. After losing her parents and the man she loved during the Covid pandemic, twenty-one-year-old Linda Stevens escapes Seattle carrying nothing but grief and the desperate hope that distance might help her survive it.

Puerto Vallarta is supposed to be temporary.

A quiet beach.
A few books.
A chance to disappear from the memories waiting for her back home.

Instead, she finds music.

Warm nights beside the ocean.
A lively Mexican family who welcomes her like one of their own.
And Francisco “Paco” Salazar — charming, passionate, and impossible to resist.

As Linda is drawn into a world of mariachi songs, hidden waterfalls, family traditions, and growing desire, she slowly begins to rediscover parts of herself she thought had died forever.

But healing comes with its own dangers.

Caught between grief and longing, memory and passion, Linda must decide whether opening her heart again is a betrayal of the people she lost — or the only way to truly live again.

Set against the vibrant beauty of Mexico’s Pacific coast, When Mariachis Play is an emotional and sensual novel about love after loss, second chances, and the music that sometimes leads us back to life.