Running From Herself
April Tompkins
$4.99 Kindle, $14.36 paperback
Leah Branch thought a record deal would save her.
Instead, it nearly destroyed her. Now she's on the run--from the
spotlight, from heartache, and from the version of herself she never
meant to become.
Fans of Daisy Jones & the Six will love this deep dive
into the inner world of the music business.
When Leah Branch quit her band, she quit music for good. It
was time to find a new life, even if that meant leaving her hometown behind and
leaving the only thing she was ever good at. A last-minute stay at Chance,
Wyoming’s only hotel had Leah ready to call the town her new home-for-life. She
wrangled a job as a server in the town’s saloon and fell in love with the house
band’s lead singer.
Then it all fell apart. One little omission doomed their
romance for good. When her ex-flame dissolved his band, the saloon’s fortunes
quickly soured, and if Leah was going to stay in Chance, she had to step up—to the
microphone. And that’s when her big break finally arrived.
But once in Nashville, Leah found that the record label was
eager to change everything about her, even her name. She wasn’t a soon-to-be
star; she was a commodity.
Now Leah once again has a choice—live her life as a fraud or discover who she really is.
It’s not going to be easy.
Editorial Review
“Running From Herself is ultimately a story about finding home – both
literally and figuratively. It’s about learning that sometimes you have
to lose yourself to find yourself, and that success doesn’t always look
the way you expect it to...(READ MORE)...
About April Tompkins
April Tompkins* always made up stories, but as a kid the stories mostly resided inside her head. She spent her early life on a farm in Minnesota with no siblings close in age, so she hiked along country roads and “imagined”. At age eleven, her family moved to the prairies of North Dakota and she put her stories aside and turned to music. She now lives in Minnesota...(READ MORE...)
Genre: Women's Fiction
Publication Year: 2025
Length: 257 pages
ASIN: B0DVZQD93H
ISBN: 979-8309651573
BISAC: FIC044000 FICTION / Women
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