Books That Spoke To Me – Marquess To A Flame by E. Windsor

[Liliane]

To the Girl Who Found Her Voice After Silence
A tribute to Marquess to a Flame by Emily Windsor

She did not speak for seven years.
Not out of whim, but out of wound.
The world had grown too loud,
And grief had bound her voice
In shadowed thread.
But Cornwall listened gently
with the hush of wild cliffs,
the rhythm of ponies across moorland,
And the whisper of waves that do not demand.
He came, the Marquess.
A rogue with a thousand waistcoats and a thousand masks
Charming, maddening, sinful.
Sent not just to guard her,
But to unlock what no one dared ask of her:
The story she could not speak.
She answered not in words,
but in stillness,
In sharp glances and stubborn grace.
He called himself the Moth.
But it was she who emerged.
From silence like a flame.
And when the city said,
“I could never bear the quiet,”
She answered,
“It is your noise that would silence me.”
Some stories are not shouted.
Some are carved in courage.
And some girls find their voice.
When the world finally learns
How to listen.

Some books don’t entertain.
They accompany.
Marquess to a Flame found me quietly, but it stayed.
Tamsyn’s silence, seven years long, was not unfamiliar to me. I, too, once lived in a world where words retreated. I, too, knew what it meant to be guarded, to be gentle, and to be misunderstood.
Emily Windsor writes with grace and unexpected resonance. Cornwall itself is a presence in this story, with wild cliffs, ponies on moorland, and the kind of quiet that comforts rather than isolates. And Jack, oh Jack, a spy in waistcoats, a rogue with charm, mystery, and his own ache beneath the silk and laughter. His code name is “The Moth,” but what lingered was the way he learned to stop speaking and start listening.
A love story that dares to be slow. One that shows how some wounds need time, and some voices only return when the world becomes safe again.
I don’t know how she does it, but somehow, Emily Windsor has written two stories in a row that echo things I never thought I’d find on the page.
Some romances whisper. This one heard me.
This story didn’t just entertain me, it recognised me.
#ABRHR

[Roberta]

That is lovely, Liliane.

[HappyBookWorm2020]

Liliane wrote: "To the Girl Who Found Her Voice After Silence
A tribute to Marquess to a Flame by Emily Windsor

She did not speak for seven years.
Not out of whim, but out of wound.
The world had grown too loud,
..."

Ditto what Roberta said.