Pre-Order Campaign now Live

Pre-order Campaign through Burn Bright Books

Campaign goes through March 19, 2025

Burn Bright Books is a woman-owned romance-only bookstore. Come April, it will be Rochester, New York’s first and only brick-and-mortar romance bookstore, mother of three, Shauna, is partnering with me to do a very special launch giveaway.

You will get a copy of THE LADY SPARKS A FLAME, a hand-beaded bookmark and enamel pin designed by @joanofartanddesign, a hand-poured pine-scented candle, and a signed bookplate.

My share of the proceeds will be donated to the Guttmacher Institute.
The Guttmacher Institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.

** NB – A NOTE FOR READERS**

Dear Reader,

Before you read this story know that there is frank discussion of nonsuicidal self-harm within these pages. Tread slowly and if this is painful, be gentle with yourself.

Phoebe’s experience with nonsuicidal self-harm might be familiar to some who have either experienced it themselves or have watched loved one’s self-harm.

To anyone who believes a young woman in an abusive household who self-harmed in the eighteen hundreds is historically inaccurate because there are no records of such incidences, I ask you to take a moment and consider whether the men with a stranglehold on recording and retelling our history would know or care about a very real, very frightening coping mechanism used overwhelmingly by adolescent women.

They were there, those girls who couldn’t feel until it hurt, who chose to inflict pain on themselves rather than wait for pain to be inflicted by others. They were there and I honor and respect them and do the same for all of you who walk this path.

Be well.

Elizabeth Everett