Hi everyone!
Torch Lit Ink is celebrating this upcoming small town romance from Emily A. Myers with a book tour event!
๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง July 1 – July 9
This novel is part of the new Magnolia Blooms duet and is a complete standalone. This duet features the Calhoun siblings and the themes of reconnecting with oneself, one’s hometown, and finding love after tragedy. Book two will release later this year.
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“You can feel it in the silence–when you’re home, when you’re loved.”
Welcome to Magnolia, Louisiana, a small town desperate for a fresh start after tragedy. Newcomer, April has made it her lifeโs work bringing old, abandoned properties back to beauty. It was a dream first instilled in her by her father after they lost their home in a hurricane. Since then, April has lost much moreโboth her parents and her hearing. Aprilโs life has been quiet for far too long. The only comfort she finds is in her work. That is until she meets the farmer next door, Emmett Calhoun.
Emmett is driven by two thingsโresponsibility to his family and a desire to never become his father. Reluctant to allow himself a taste of something new, Emmett avoids helping April with the renovation until he simply canโt. When he finally agrees to help, more than the historic inn gets a fresh start.
April hears Emmett, sees him, more than anyone else ever has. Emmett learns and loves April in a way no one else has ever been willing to. Together, they find the silence isnโt so quiet. Together, they tear down the walls guarding their hearts and open their minds to new possibilities for the futureโto new dreams, to new love. And the town of Magnolia enters a new chapter of togetherness.
Tropes:
- deaf/ mute
- virgin FMC
- protective farmer next door MC
- close proximity
- slow burn turned spicy
- found family
- small town
- healing love story
Content Warnings:
loss, grief, PTSD, alcoholism (not MCs)
Spice: ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ
Page Length: 300 pages
The Inspiration for the novel – ‘Author Note’:
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ต ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ is a combination of a book idea I dreamt of long ago and a sudden burst of inspiration that came to me while observing one of my deaf counterparts. Seeing him communicate so fluently, without skipping a beat, made me see the beauty of his uniqueness, not the barrier of a disability. Then the Taylor Swift song “You are in love” popped into my head and it was game over.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ต ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ is unlike any other novel I’ve written. You will see Emmett and April communicate differently yet effortlessly and love each other so loudly, there is no denying it.
NOTE: I did enough research to know I was severely under-qualified to write a story with an FMC who was born deaf. April lost her hearing in a car accident in her twenties. Her experience is not meant to be representative of all deaf experiences.
