Welcome to the Month Long Virtual Book Tour
for Disenchanted, the recently released YA
Fantasy novel by Leigh Goff.
About Disenchanted:
A dark curse, a forbidden love, an impossible choice.
Orphaned sixteen-year-old Sophie Goodchild is an outcast among the ordinaries and her coven, but not because she’s untalented. Descended from a powerful Wethersfield witch, her spellcasting gift is awkwardly emerging, but that’s the least of her worries. The boy she’s forbidden to fall for, a descendant of the man who condemned her ancestor to hang, carries a dark secret that could destroy them both unless Sophie learns how to tap into the mysterious power of her diamond bloodcharm.
Suspenseful, dark, romantic, and brimming with old magic, Disenchanted captures the intrigue of New England’s witchlore.
Book Details:
Title: Disenchanted
Author Name: Leigh Goff
Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy Romance
Publisher: Musa Publishing, LLC http://www.musapublishing.com/
ISBN: 978-1-68009-045-1
Date Released: 12/19/2014
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Wethersfield, Connecticut is a town rich in history and spooky
stories. When writing Disenchanted, I
wanted to link to that feeling. Puritans founded the town in 1634 and because
of its religious roots, Wethersfield has been connected to witches and
witchcraft ever since. The atmosphere of New England style buildings and old
cemeteries makes for an amazing setting in a fantasy romance where magic rules.
Here are some of my favorite spots.
The Rare Muse
The
Rare Muse appears to be a regular bookstore, but the appearance is meant to
deceive the ordinary shoppers. When Sophie, the sixteen-year-old white witch
main character, stumbles into the shop with her magical currency, Celtic coins,
she is able to trade them for access to the rare, rare book room. This room,
with its theatrical movie screen framed by red velvet curtains, and tiers and
balconies filled with book shelves was inspired by the real life El Ateneo
Grand Splendid, a former Parisian-style theater turned bookstore, the largest
bookstore in South America. Sophie meanders through the grand room until she
finds the Book of Dark Spells. When she tries to return the nefarious tome to
the shelf, the shop owner, a diminutive goblin, tells her she cannot. The book
now belongs to her whether she wants it or not. When she opens the cover, she
sees the list of previous and deceased owners, and her name has been
mysteriously added.
The True Love Tree
The
True Love Tree is an old mulberry tree growing in front of Sophie’s house where
she lives with her quirky Aunt Janie. For the first time in three
hundred-and-fifty years, the tree is bearing fruit. Long ago, beneath the tree,
two lovers first met and exchanged promises. When this girl, a witch ancestor
of Sophie’s, fell in love with Francis Mather, a cursed ordinary, she herself
was cursed to die. After her death, the grief-stricken boy, drank a goblet of
wolfsbane potion and dropped dead beside her grave, where he was soon after
buried; ill-fated lovers resting for eternity. In the present, it is where
Sophie’s true love, Alexavier Mather, goes to die when he falsely believes
Sophie has died trying to break his family’s true love curse.
The Village Cemetery
Inspired
by the real life Village Cemetery in Wethersfield, this setting is where Aunt
Janie tells Sophie the story that sparks her curiosity about Alexavier Mather’s
family secret. The story involves Judge Mather, Alexavier’s father, digging up
one of their ancestors to have genetic samples taken so he can get to the root
of a family medical problem. The judge learns the problem is not genetic, but
rather a curse that has affected the Mather bloodline since his ancestor
condemned Sophie’s ancestor, the witch, Rebecca Greensmith to hang at Gallows
Hill. Very creepy!
Kingshill Detention
Center
Kingshill
Detention Center is a fictional setting inspired by the Crownsville Hospital
Center in Crownsville, Maryland, which served as a hospital for the insane and
was where patients died from shock therapy and botched lobotomies in the early
part of the twentieth century. The hospital was closed decades ago, but looks
eerily pristine as it sits off a main road outside of Annapolis. And ghosts
have been known to haunt its empty halls. In Disenchanted, this detention center is on the outskirts of Wethersfield
and where Judge Mather, taking revenge on the witches, locks them up for crimes
of public mischief and con artistry when he spies them unleashing their magic
around town. The old iron locks on the doors make it nearly impossible for the
witches to escape. Nearly.
The old fairgrounds
The
old fairgrounds are the fictional setting for the climax scene where Sophie
comes into her power and shows her unsuspecting coven exactly what she can do.
The haunted grounds are filled with dilapidated buildings and rusted amusement
rides. There is a circle of white marble columns surrounding a stone basin that
holds the witches’ fire for the Seeking ceremony, an event that happens to
coincide with a very powerful eclipse and causes Sophie’s power to surge.
About the Author:
After taking several writing courses in college and attending professional writing workshops after I graduated from the University of Maryland, University College, I began writing young adult fiction with purpose. I joined the Maryland Writers’ Association and Romance Writers of America and became an approved artist with the Maryland State Arts Council.
My debut novel, Disenchanted, is now available, and I am working on my next, The Witch’s Ring, which will be set in Annapolis.
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