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Whispers from the Holler: Second Acts of Passion
(Holler Flame Echoes – Ancestral Bonds, Book 8)
* Amazon Title: Whispers from the Holler: Second Acts of Passion (Holler Flame Echoes – Ancestral Bonds, Book 8)
Stephanie White returns to the holler with her SUV loaded with blank canvases, only to discover her childhood home has become The Muse’s Rest Bed & Breakfast. The carved sign stops her cold, and the man who steps onto the porch is Richard Clark—the one face she has painted in her mind for twenty years.
Fully booked for peak foliage season, Richard offers her the tiny artist’s loft above the barn. There she finds her old sketches still pinned to the beams, preserved like relics. Tension crackles between them as they argue over the house’s past and its uncertain future, yet every accidental touch and shared glance pulls them closer.
When a storm knocks out the power and the B&B faces mounting tax debt, Stephanie and Richard are forced into long nights of conversation and one unforgettable kiss by the hearth. She begins a new series of portraits, and he agrees to sit, opening the door to truths they both buried.
With an exclusive gallery opening at the estate and the holler rallying behind them, Stephanie must decide whether her famous mountain landscapes were ever the real destination—or whether the view she has always needed has been standing in her driveway all along.
* Genre: Contemporary Romance, Second Chance Romance, Small Town Romance, Women’s Fiction, Art & Literature Fiction
* Keywords:
second chance romance
mountain romance
artist heroine
bed and breakfast
Appalachian setting
childhood sweetheart
homecoming story
small town second act
emotional women’s fiction
holler romance
* Amazon Categories:
1. Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Contemporary
2. Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Second Chance
3. Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Women’s Fiction > Small Town & Rural
4. Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Small Town & Rural
5. Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Graphic Design > Art & Illustration
6. Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary Fiction > Romance
7. Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Women’s Fiction > Friendship
* Target Audience: Readers of heartfelt second-chance romances who enjoy Appalachian settings, stories centered on artists and creative legacies, women aged 35–65 seeking emotional depth and homecoming themes, and fans of slow-burn reunions between childhood sweethearts.
* Read-alike Authors/Books: Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook), Robyn Carr (Virgin River series), Sherryl Woods (Chesapeake Shores series)
* Series Information: Holler Flame Echoes – Ancestral Bonds, Book 8
* Tagline: Twenty years later, the only landscape that still matters is the one standing in her driveway.
* Back Cover Blurb:
She came home to paint the mountains.
She found the man who has always been her muse running the bed and breakfast that now owns her childhood home.
One loft, one storm, and one unfinished portrait later, Stephanie White must decide if fame is worth leaving the holler—and Richard—behind again.
* Marketing Hooks:
– A famous landscape artist returns to the holler and discovers her first love has turned her family home into a struggling B&B.
– Twenty years of silence end in a candlelit loft where old sketches still hang and new passion ignites.
– An exclusive gallery opening at the estate may save the house, but only if Stephanie chooses the mountains—and the man—over the city art world.
Pamela Ramos –
Whispers from the Holler had me rereading the last few chapters of its predecessor just to line up the timelines and catch every echo of what happened before. What got me this time was how the story turned the everyday act of really noticing each other into something magnetic, like the characters were finally seeing the hills and the people they love in full color for the first time. I’m already wondering what the next book will do with these two and whether we’ll get more of that quiet, charged atmosphere that made me lose a whole weekend.