A Phantom Enchantment (28 page)

As a child, Eve was a tomboy/animal lover/aspiring actress who staged lip-synched productions of her favorite musicals since she couldn't sing. Her love for athletics and animals remained, but the acting bug was soon replaced by the writing bug. In fourth grade, she wrote her first chapter book, entitled
The Only Tomboy in My Class,
and she was hooked.

Now Eve teaches high school English and creative writing in the Philadelphia suburbs and sponsors her school's literary magazine. When not grading papers or writing, Eve can be found daydreaming about her next story.

Learn more at evemariemont.com.

 

 

The compelling heroine of Eve Marie Mont's
acclaimed novel
A Breath of Eyre
returns to find truth and fiction
merging through the pages
of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic,
The Scarlet Letter. . . .

 

 

Emma Townsend is back at prestigious Lockwood Prep, but her world has altered immeasurably since her tumultuous sophomore year. The best change of all: her boyfriend, Gray. And though Gray is leaving for Coast Guard training, Emma feels newly optimistic, even if the pain of her mother's long-ago death still casts a shadow.

Yet Emma isn't the only one who's changed. Her friend and roommate, Michelle, is strangely remote, and old alliances are shifting in disconcerting ways. Soon Emma's long-distance relationship with Gray is straining under the pressure, and Emma wonders if she's cracking, too. How else to explain the vivid dreams of Hester Prynne she's been having since she started reading
The Scarlet Letter
? Or the way she's found herself waking in the woods? As her life begins to echo events in the novel, Emma will be forced to choose between virtue and love. But can she forge a new future without breaking her heart?

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Copyright © 2014 by Eve Marie Mont

 

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ISBN: 978-0-7582-6950-8

 

eISBN-13: 978-1-61773-246-1
eISBN-10: 1-61773-246-X
First Kensington Electronic Edition: April 2014