One Little Secret (2007)

Allison Bottke's novel, published by Bethany House in 2007, opens backstage at the Grammy Awards with Nik Prevelakis, son of the Hollywood heartthrob Cristoff Prevelakis, waiting to hear whether his song has beaten Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and Neil Young. Ursula Rhoades, a housewife with a singing voice and an attorney husband away on a case, agrees to record with him under the stage name Alexandra Arcano, keeping the partnership a secret. (Open Library)

Watches

Baume & Mercier watch: After working all night with his manager Arnie on a contract for the partnership, Nik hears the intercom at his Malibu home and looks at his new Baume & Mercier, a recent gift from his mother Isabella, to note that Ursula is right on time before he opens the automatic gate. She arrives from a park-and-ride lot by taxi in large black glasses and a straw fedora. The text names the maker only.

Source text: The intercom bell interrupted them. "She's right on time," Nik said looking at his new Baume & Mercier watch — a recent gift from his mother. "I told you she'd come." (Allison Bottke, One Little Secret, scan cataloged as Bethany House, 2007, pp. 95 to 96, where the sentence runs across the page break; his family name is on p. 8; Internet Archive scan OCR)