Kelly Jarvis (Sea and Stars) Author Talk and Signing

Description

Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Kelly Jarvis for her book Sea of Stars. Kelly will be in conversation with Lara Ehrlich.

About the Book

Some songs are worth hearing, no matter the cost.

The Isle of Skye, 1847.

When Arabella Porter, a lonely healer gifted with fairy magic, receives a mysterious letter from the past, she journeys to Mystic, Connecticut in search of the father she has never known. There she crosses paths with James Alden, a handsome shipbuilder whose shadowy history hides secrets of its own.

Both thrown together and kept apart by circumstances beyond their control, James and Arabella must reconcile their forbidden desires for each other with their loyalty to their families, their longing for choice, and their need for freedom. When Arabella’s independence stirs town gossip and suspicion, James must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice to protect her from a past far more dangerous than it seems.

Filled with Gothic imagery and Celtic folklore, Sea and Stars is a slow burn but sensual Beauty and the Beast retelling set in the real world. It is for all those who believe in the transformative power of true love.

About the Author

Kelly Jarvis is the Contributing Writer for The Fairy Tale Magazine and a Recurring Columnist for Eternal Haunted Summer. Her work has also been featured in A Moon of One’s Own, Baseball Bard, Blue Heron Review, Corvid Queen, Enchanted Conversation, Forget Me Not Press, Mermaids Monthly, The Chamber Magazine, The Magic of Us, and the World Weaver Press Anthology Mothers of Enchantment: New Tales of Fairy Godmothers. Her debut novella, Selkie Moon, was a semi-finalist in the Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship, and her Gothic historical romance, Sea and Stars, won a Literary Titan Gold Book Award.

About Lara Ehrlich

Lara Ehrlich is the author of the novel Bind Me Tighter Still (Red Hen Press, 2025) and the story collection Animal Wife, which won Red Hen Press’s Fiction Award judged by Ann Hood and was published by the press in 2020. Her short fiction has appeared in Hunger Mountain, StoryQuarterly, SmokeLong Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, F(r)iction, and elsewhere. She is the host of Writer Mother Monster, a podcast devoted to dismantling the myth of “having it all,” the founder and director of the creative writing center Thought Fox Writers Den, and a co-founder of Raging Women, a literary collective centered on women’s rage, power, and reclamation. Lara has taught workshops and participated in panels at Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, the Yale Writers Workshop, AWP, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, among others, and is a member of the core faculty at StoryStudio Chicago. She has taught at the University of Connecticut and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Connecticut College. She lives in Connecticut with her family.