Introducing the finalized cover for my novel A Season of Whispers.
From the back cover:
In the summer of 1844, Tom Lyman flees to Bonaventure, a transcendentalist farming cooperative tucked away in eastern Connecticut, to hide from his past. There Lyman must adjust to a new life among idealists, under the fatherly eye of the group’s founder, David Grosvenor. When he isn’t ducking work or the questions of the eccentric residents, Lyman occupies himself by courting Grosvenor’s daughter Minerva.
But Bonaventure isn’t as utopian as it seems. One by one, Lyman’s secrets begin to catch up with him, and Bonaventure has a few secrets of its own. Why did the farm have an ominous reputation long before Grosvenor bought it? What caused the previous tenants to vanish? And who is playing the violin in the basement? Time is running out, and Lyman must discover the truth before he’s driven mad by the whispering through the walls.
Many, many thanks to Aurelia Leo publisher and editor-in-chief Zelda Knight for working so hard to put this incredible cover together. It went through several iterations, each one better than the last, and I couldn’t be happier with the finished product. When I suggested the original concept of “women with great hair fleeing Gothic houses,” she immediately grokked what I meant, right down to the singular lit window in the house.
A Season of Whispers will be available October 2020. You can preorder it at Aurelia Leo’s site.
