I pulled the collar of my jacket higher on my neck. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.” Thank you for inspiring me to give Levi and Elsie their voice. So as always, I thank you all for guiding me in this direction. I hope you all fall for our shy couple as hard and as fast as I did. But I am beyond thankful that your support and requests for Levi’s novel brought me to this heart-wrenching, yet beautiful story. I still regard the ‘Bonus Chapter’ in Sweet Hope as the final chapter in the Sweet Series, the one to give this series closure. A novel exploring topics that, in my opinion, need to be brought to the forefront of conversations. But as I began to write, a new, more meaningful story began to form, and I knew that the sweet novella I had planned for, would become a full-length novel. I wanted the story to be sweet and beautiful-just like our shy and reserved Levi. I had to give the final Carillo boy his turn-I needed to give him his happily ever after.Īt first, I planned Sweet Soul to be a novella. What happened in Levi’s life? How did he meet Elsie? What was their story? Could we possibly know his story too?īefore long, those questions began to invade my head too, until I knew I had to give Levi his story.

Then I began to receive messages from you, my readers, asking about Levi Carillo. I ended that novel with a finite tone, and I was content. One day it will end, and you’ll again find your voice…Īs you all know, I planned for Sweet Hope to be the final novel in the Sweet Home Series. Sweet Soul (Sweet Home #5) by Tillie ColeĪnd for those made to feel small by others, made to feel inferior by hurtful words.

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