When She Danced

Here it is, ready to copy straight into KDP: Evie Holloway has spent fourteen years being a good wife in a small town that rewards women for staying small. She married Roman. Raised two children who needed more from her than most. Learned to speak her daughter's silence like a second language. Learned to perform happiness so convincingly that even she almost believed it. She got three hours on Friday nights. Murphy's Bar. A stool, a whiskey. The most radical thing she did all week. Then Luke Mercer came back to Ashwick. And suddenly the ghosts returned - the whispers, the lake, the missing hours, and the voice of Scarlett Vane echoing through dreams like smoke trapped in closed rooms. Scarlett disappeared eight years ago. Or drowned. Or ran. Nobody agrees. What Ashwick does agree on is that Evie was there the night it happened - and that she came home alone, barefoot, with no memory of what she'd left behind. As old truths unravel and long-buried feelings rise, Evie is forced to choose: stay the woman she was expected to be, or become the woman she was born to be. In Ashwick, some women break quietly. Others dance.

Pagina's: 153, Paperback, Independently published