Novelists In November | Shira’s story reveal 

Story reveal 

AHHHHHH!!! You guys! I am SO SO excited!!! Today I have the honor and pleasure of revealing one of my best friend’s story for the upcoming anthology Novelists In November (I’ll be revealing the COVER on the 25th so make sure to come back for that)!!! 

Shira is such a wonderful friend and supporter and I am so excited to be sharing about her story here today with all of you! 

Shira also hosts the amazing podcast, Her Reading Life Podcast. Over there she has been posting anthology diaries taking you behind the scenes on her writing process for getting this anthology ready to be published. If you love behind the scenes (like I do) then you will love this series! 

• Her Reading Life Podcast 
• YouTube 
• Instagram 
• Pinterest 
• Get 1:1 writing coaching from Shira (there is a FREE 45 minute call to get you started if that is something you are interested in) 

• The Street Team (if you want to help give this anthology the best possible release day then please sign up for the street team! There are a lot of awesome perks and, if I heard right, there will possibly be some street team exclusive prizes and goodies) | join the team 

Now, without further ado, let’s get into Shira’s story and title reveal!!! 

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It’s November 20, 1984, and Lavender Leoni’s time is running out.

A bestselling romance author struggling with social anxiety, she’s been diagnosed with terminal leukemia just  two weeks shy of her twenty-sixth birthday. Or what she assumes to be her birthday. Her only hope of ever tracing her lost family hinges on a single locket left in the box where her adopted parents found her while on a trip to Yorkshire, England. As her fate ticks down, she sets out on a journey back to her birthplace to unearth her lost history, where the answers – or the lack of them – may haunt her for the rest of her life.

This story is at once humorous and poignant, told from Lavender’s piquant and observant perspective as she wrestles with her own anxieties and fears, as well as the decades-old secrets that lie far in her unknown past. It deals with grief, love, friendship, and anxiety and begs the question every broken family asks: whether loving someone is ever not worth the effort?

Told in the tradition of Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Secret Garden, and All Creatures Great and Small, this story will be welcomed with open arms by all old-soul book girls who love stories of hope, healing, and the pursuit of happiness.

Doesn’t it sound AMAZING?!? I cannot wait to read this story! I know it’s going to be so wonderful!!! 

Make sure to come back on June 25th for the COVER REVEAL!!! I’ll see you soon friend! 

Love, 

Moriyah