Echoes of ancient books

Author Name: Barbara Davis

Without a reader, a book enters a state of inertia, a body without a pulse or breath. But once a book becomes part of someone's world, it comes back to life, with a past and a present. Ashlyn Greer, an antique bookseller, has a gift for feeling the emotions of a book's former owners simply by touching it. These echoes reveal themselves to her as flavors, smells, tingles, joy, sadness, or sensory pain. Fate throws Ashlyn two unpublished books. When she begins reading, she discovers that they tell the same story from the point of view of two lovers brought together by a love story and torn apart by betrayal. Ashlyn embarks on a journey to find the authors, Hemi and Bill, and delves into their world, witnessing the birth and destruction of her own love, exploring the power of forgiveness, forgetting, and love. It is a story of family, forgiveness, betrayal, and love, in which each person holds secrets. As with all tragedies, unspoken missteps and mistakes can cause immense damage to the people we least want to see. Hurt them. "Echoes of Old Books" is a book about books and a novel that has the power to resonate with its readers, making them feel joy and heartache, anger and devastation, love, loss and sadness alongside Ashlyn, Hemi and Bill.