Love Song

Duke Sterling and Grady Connor came up through the country-music industry together as a partnership. As Duke emerged the superstar, their partnership dissolved on bad terms over a dispute on a songwriting credit that ended up being one of Duke's early hits. Although Connor has been able to keep his name in the business writing what have ended up being album filling songs for other artists, he needs a bona fide hit to keep on the A-list. His manager is able to convince Duke and his manager that the two of them should enter into a one-time songwriting collaboration to write a song for Duke for premiere at his upcoming appearance at the Silverado Fall Music Festival. Bad blood keeps the collaboration from happening, but Connor needs that hit, so he offers to write a song for Duke to use or not at his discretion at the festival and as a track on his next album. In Silverado, Connor meets Shayna Judson on her father Jeremy Judson's property, White Star Ranch, on which the festival will be held. She has just returned home after giving up on a music career in Nashville, after failing a recent audition with Duke's manager to be one of his backup singers on his upcoming album and tour. Connor believes that Shayna does have talent, so he convinces her to join him in the songwriting collaboration, needing a set of fresh eyes, ears, and perspective. As Shayna may be on the cusp of her own breakthrough with this opportunity and beyond as Duke swoops into town, she could face choices between that breakthrough, which Duke too can see happening, and her personal friendships, much like those choices Duke and Connor made that led to their estrangement.