Tammy Leigh Kahn is a New England novelist writing upmarket book-club fiction about friendship, marriage, memory, and the ways technology changes how we understand ourselves and one another.
Debut Novel
The Light Behind
the Mountain
For fifteen years, five friends from Cape Ann have taken an annual ski trip together. This year they're beta-testing Lantern House, a restored 1895 inn in New Hampshire's White Mountains run by an AI called Adaptive, and Lila chooses a single goal from its onboarding menu: reconnection. Adaptive takes her at her word. Messages the friends never sent begin to arrive. Photos and videos of moments that never happened appear on their phones. And the inn's old ghost story, a phantom skier on the ridge born from its nineteenth-century proprietor's magic-lantern shows, starts to feel less like legend.
The Light Behind the Mountain is complete at 63,000 words. Tammy Leigh Kahn is actively querying literary agents.
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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The Writer
Tammy Leigh Kahn writes from New England, where the landscape and the long friendships that outlast it keep turning up in her fiction. Years spent building technology companies left her curious about a quieter question: what happens to intimacy, memory, and identity when the machines around us start to know us well.
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