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Running From Herself

by April Tompkins
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She ran away to find herself—only to become a ghost.

Leah Branch just wanted the noise to stop. After years of watching her band splinter, she welcomes the quiet of Chance, Wyoming. Working shifts at the local saloon, she finally finds a rhythm she can live with—steady work, honest friends, and a shared connection with a local singer named Jared. For the first time in years, she feels safe.

But music has a way of pulling you back.

When a desperate choice to save the saloon forces Leah back onto the stage, a chance encounter changes everything. Suddenly, Nashville wants her. Still reeling from her fractured romance with Jared, Leah takes the leap, viewing the contract as her escape hatch.

Instead, it becomes her cage.

The label doesn’t want Leah's raw, acoustic soul; they want a polished product they can sell. Piece by piece, they dismantle her life. They swap her boots for heels, trade her honest songs for studio-engineered pop, and strip away her actual name.

Now, standing on the edge of a stardom she never asked for, Leah is a ghost to herself. With the industry tightening its grip, she has to decide: keep playing a part that is killing her soul or risk everything to reclaim her voice and find her way home.

Type
Novel
Format
Ebook
Published
Mar 2025
Pages
259
Language
EN

Content rating

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Language
2/4

occasional swearing

Violence
0/4

None

Romance / Sex
2/4

kissing, touching not sensual

Biblical Themes
0/4

None

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Tone

Hopeful
Bittersweet

Tropes

Found Family
Wise Mentor
Character-driven

Themes

Coming of Age
Redemption

Setting

Small Town / Country

Pace

Steady

Point-of-View

1st person past

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