Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Joy Callaway!
Writes:
Joy Callaway writes historical fiction, mostly set in America during the Gilded Age. You can always count on main characters who inspire, swoony romance, breathtaking settings, and endings that will leave you feeling hopeful.
About:
International bestselling author, Joy Callaway loves old stuff—surfing newspaper archives, doing ancestry research, and hoarding antiques and family heirlooms. In fact, her husband often wonders if she’s slowly transforming their home into a museum. She also loves being outside, laughing a lot, reading historical fiction with a hefty dose of romance and southern fiction, watching Gilded Age, Hart of Dixie and Schitt’s Creek on repeat, and yelling too loudly at her kids’ sporting events.
My ideal reader for my latest book, WHAT THE MOUNTAINS REMEMBER, must love:
- The mountains
- Historic hotels (bonus points if you love Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC)
- Stories of finding your purpose
- Unexpected love
- Hot mess characters who meddle
- Glamping or camping (the story takes place during one of the famed Vagabonds camping trips)
- The Gilded Age
What to expect if we’re compatible:
- Nerdy history chatter
- Time travel to beautiful places with interesting people in the pages of my stories
- Pictures of mountains and small towns and historic hotels
- A lot of smiling (it’s my resting face)
At this wondrous resort, secrets can easily be hidden in plain sight when the eye is trained on beauty.
April 1913—Belle Newbold hasn’t seen mountains for seven years—since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married gasoline magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfather’s business acquaintance, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once again—primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancé, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite, a man she’s only met once before. It is a veritable arranged marriage, but she prefers it that way. Belle isn’t interested in love. She only wants a simple life—a family of her own and the stability of a wealthy man’s pockets. That’s what Worth Delafield has promised to give her and it’s worth facing the mountains again, the reminder of the past, and her poverty, to secure her future.
But when the Vagabonds group is invited to tour the unfinished Grove Park Inn and Belle is unexpectedly thrust into a role researching and writing about the building of the inn—a construction the locals are calling The Eighth Wonder of the World—she quickly realizes that these mountains are no different from the ones she once called home. As Belle peels back the facade of Grove Park Inn, of Worth, of the society she’s come to claim as her own, and the truth of her heart, she begins to see that perhaps her part in Grove Park’s story isn’t a coincidence after all. Perhaps it is only by watching a wonder rise from ordinary hands and mountain stone that she can finally find the strength to piece together the long-destroyed path toward who she was meant to be.
International bestselling author Joy Callaway returns with a story of the ordinary people behind extraordinary beauty—and the question of who gets to tell their stories.
Women's Fiction Historical [Harper Muse, On Sale: April 2, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781400244317 / ]
Joy Callaway is an international bestselling author of historical fiction and southern contemporary romance. She formerly served as a marketing director for a wealth management company. She holds a B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations from Marshall University and an M.M.C. in Mass Communication from the University of South Carolina. She resides in Charlotte, NC with her husband, John, and her children.
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