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THE SONG OF DAVID
Publication date: June 13, 2015 Genre: Contemporary Romance, Inspirational Recommended for ages: +16 I won my first fight when I was eleven years old, and I've been throwing punches ever since. Fighting is the purest, truest, most elemental thing there is. Some people describe heaven as a sea of unending white. Where choirs sing and loved ones await. But for me, heaven was something else. It sounded like the bell at the beginning of a round, it tasted like adrenaline, it burned like sweat in my eyes and fire in my belly. It looked like the blur of screaming crowds and an opponent who wanted my blood. For me, heaven was the octagon. Until I met Millie, and heaven became something different. I became something different. I knew I loved her when I watched her stand perfectly still in the middle of a crowded room, people swarming, buzzing, slipping around her, her straight dancer’s posture unyielding, her chin high, her hands loose at her sides. No one seemed to see her at all, except for the few who squeezed past her, tossing exasperated looks at her unsmiling face. When they realized she wasn't normal, they hurried away. Why was it that no one saw her, yet she was the first thing I saw? If heaven was the octagon, then she was my angel at the center of it all, the girl with the power to take me down and lift me up again. The girl I wanted to fight for, the girl I wanted to claim. The girl who taught me that sometimes the biggest heroes go unsung and the most important battles are the ones we don’t think we can win. This book is a STANDALONE novel featuring characters that were introduced in The Law of Moses and it is recommended that The Law of Moses be read first. |
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"This book came as a surprise in so many ways. I was surprised by how immediately I became consumed by it. By how angsty and unexpectedly sexy it was. By how much this story felt very-Amy-Harmon-esque, and yet not . . . it felt different."
-- Angie and Jessica's Dreamy Reads
"Amy Harmon doesn't do conventional . . . not at all. In fact, everything about her books scream different, unique, a cut above. And in an oversaturated marketplace, this is a welcome, refreshing change."
-- The Hopeless Romantics Book Blog
"Every time I sit down to read an Amy Harmon novel, I know I'm getting ready to be blown away, and the chances are, after reading it, I won't ever be the same. The Song of David is no exception. I was enthralled from the very first page."
-- A.L. Jackson, New York Times Bestselling Author
"Amy Harmon is a master storyteller, and The Song of David is--in typical Harmon style--completely unpredictable, atypical, heart-wrenching, inspiring, and passionate."
-- Penny Reid, USA Today Bestselling Author
-- Angie and Jessica's Dreamy Reads
"Amy Harmon doesn't do conventional . . . not at all. In fact, everything about her books scream different, unique, a cut above. And in an oversaturated marketplace, this is a welcome, refreshing change."
-- The Hopeless Romantics Book Blog
"Every time I sit down to read an Amy Harmon novel, I know I'm getting ready to be blown away, and the chances are, after reading it, I won't ever be the same. The Song of David is no exception. I was enthralled from the very first page."
-- A.L. Jackson, New York Times Bestselling Author
"Amy Harmon is a master storyteller, and The Song of David is--in typical Harmon style--completely unpredictable, atypical, heart-wrenching, inspiring, and passionate."
-- Penny Reid, USA Today Bestselling Author
While writing The Song of David, I kept playing around with a melody, just a little piece of a tune that kept coming back to me. I used to write songs before I wrote novels---I released a gospel CD in 2007---and music and words have always gone hand in hand for me. I finally got up from my desk and went to the piano and plunked it out. When my son came home from work, I played it for him and asked him what he thought. He is a talented singer/songwriter now working on his second album, and he is pretty picky about what he will and won't do. I'm a little bit country and he's a little bit . . . no, not Rock n' Roll, but definitely alternative. Very indie. But he loved the tune, if not the words. We fought back and forth over it. He had his words, I had mine, but we agreed on the melody. Finally, with a lot of give and take and singing and arguing, we found the right lyrics for this haunting melody. It perfectly complements the book. When I hear it, all the emotion of so many scenes in this story rise to the surface. I hope you feel it too. You can purchase the official Song of David single on iTunes and Spotify.
