{"id":612,"date":"2016-08-07T07:15:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T07:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/?p=612"},"modified":"2016-08-07T07:15:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T07:15:48","slug":"new-book-announcement-the-longest-river-cover-and-blurb-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2016\/08\/07\/new-book-announcement-the-longest-river-cover-and-blurb-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Announcement: THE LONGEST RIVER (Cover and Blurb Inside!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Longest<\/p>\n

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HEY EVERYONE!<\/p>\n

I’m back and excited to announce my new standalone novel,\u00a0THE LONGEST RIVER.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>It’s a sweet romance about grief, travel, and\u00a0mu.\u00a0<\/em>Because why not?<\/p>\n

Check out the blurb below!<\/p>\n

High in the mountains of central Japan, there\u2019s a town that makes it official business to invite in a host of spirits every summer\u2026<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Helen\u2019s twin sister has drowned. After sixty years of relying on each other, Helen must now learn to not only work through her grief, but to embrace a life without the only person who ever mattered.<\/p>\n

Fate brings her to Gujo, a secluded Japanese village that\u2019s not only stuck in time, but is reliant on the unpredictable Nagara River, a reminder of Helen\u2019s grief. Between this unhappy circumstance and being completely lost in a culture not her own, she could really use a friend\u2026<\/p>\n

Enter Kiyoko, the introverted bookstore owner. Kiyoko has not only made peace with her husband\u2019s death a decade ago, but with Gujo, a town she has called home for over thirty years.<\/p>\n

When Helen and Kiyoko meet, it feels like fate. A fate awash in the tears of grief and the flowing river that won\u2019t let sleeping ghosts go. With the obon <\/em>spirit season afoot, it\u2019s only a matter of time before the dead begin their meddling and attempt to set these would-be lovebirds on a path they both claim to not need.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be one Hell of a summer.<\/p>\n

Coming\u00a0August 26th to an ebook retailer near you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  HEY EVERYONE! I’m back and excited to announce my new standalone novel,\u00a0THE LONGEST RIVER.\u00a0It’s a sweet romance about grief, travel, and\u00a0mu.\u00a0Because why not? Check out the blurb below! High in the mountains of central Japan, there\u2019s a town that makes it official business to invite in a host of spirits every summer\u2026\u00a0 Helen\u2019s twin… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,169,5,27,4,381],"tags":[369,368,384,383,382],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blurb","category-book-launch","category-cover-reveal","category-japan","category-new-release","category-the-longest-river","tag-blurb-reveal","tag-cover-reveal","tag-new-release","tag-romance","tag-the-longest-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Longest-River.jpg?fit=1575%2C2400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRtqI-9S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}