A New England novelist shaped by a career in technology, a love of books, and the beautiful chaos of raising a family.
An Introduction
“We’ve always used technology to shape perception and create meaning. We’re still the ones who have to decide how to live with what we see.”
Tammy Leigh Kahn is writing a fast-paced contemporary novel set in New England—a story about lifelong friendships, old memories, and what happens when the technology around us seems determined to understand us better than we understand ourselves.
The Debut Novel · Coming Soon
The Light Behind
the Mountain
When a group of longtime friends gather for a winter weekend at Lantern House, an AI-powered ski retreat housed inside a restored nineteenth-century inn in North Conway, New Hampshire, they expect fresh snow, familiar company, and a chance to reconnect. What they don't expect is a house that seems determined to understand them better than they understand themselves.
Friendship. Reinvention. What happens when something sees us more clearly than we're used to seeing ourselves.
Cover concept created to capture the atmosphere and setting of the novel. Final cover design will evolve as the book moves toward publication.
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Recurring Themes
The threads that run through the work
Connection & Long Histories
The people who know us best—and the versions of ourselves they remember.
Memory & Meaning
Technology can reflect us back to ourselves. Meaning is something we still have to make.
Home & Reinvention
Old houses, winter roads, and the lives we build after becoming someone we never expected to be.
Letters from the Mountains
Occasional notes on books,
New England, and stories.
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