Emory Blake
Emory crafts psychological dramas steeped in atmosphere, obsession, and the slow creep of dread. With a background in music and literature, her work often explores how passion teeters on the edge of fixation, and how art can both illuminate and consume. Emory’s characters move through worlds where beauty collides with danger, and where the smallest choices echo with devastating permanence. Away from the page, she collects antique sheet music, plays an old grand piano that creaks in all the wrong places, and never quite trusts the shadows at the edge of the stage.
Emory's debut novel, The Piano Lesson will be coming out soon!
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Practice makes possession.
Once, Nora Ashcroft was a rising star at the piano—competitions, accolades, the promise of a dazzling career. But after a single performance unraveled, she walked away from the stage and never looked back.
Now, in her thirties, she contents herself with teaching in her quiet home studio, trying not to dwell on what might have been.
When a new student arrives—an older man eager to learn—Nora is thrilled by his passion for the piano…until that passion begins to fixate on her.
Something in his devotion to the music unsettles her, a shadow she can’t quite name.
As the keys begin to unlock more than scales and sonatas, Nora must confront the haunting truth: the past is never as silent as we wish it to be.
And some pieces refuse to be forgotten.