the Quiet in Holler: A Once Forbidden Appalachian Romance

When Elias Ramey returns to the Appalachian mountains after seven years away, he expects ghosts - memories, regrets, the weight of a past he never fully outran. What he doesn't expect is Jonah Calvert.Jonah, the preacher's son. Jonah, the boy he once loved in silence. Jonah, the man still bound to the holiness-revival world Elias fled.Under the trembling canvas of a Signs-Following tent - where hymns shake the rafters, serpents are lifted in trembling hands, and salvation is demanded with fire - Elias and Jonah find themselves pulled back into each other's orbit. Their connection is dangerous, forbidden, and undeniable.As revival week intensifies, so does the tension between them: the river where they once stood side by side, the tobacco barn where a lantern once flickered between them, the unspoken truth that has followed them into manhood.Caught between Melungeon heritage, family expectation, and a faith that has no room for men like them, Elias and Jonah must decide whether love is worth crossing the boundaries that have defined their lives.A story of longing, identity, and quiet rebellion, The Quiet in the Holler is a hyper-real, deeply human romance set against the charged beauty of the Appalachian mountains - where desire becomes its own kind of testimony, and where two men must choose between the lives they were given and the love that calls them home.

Pagina's: 146, Paperback, Independently published