Beautiful Dream Lady &
The Magic Music Man

Beautiful Dream Lady & The Magic Music Man

​

Thirty years later, the song finally finds them.

Luke has spent a lifetime chasing music and outrunning his own patterns. Emily Murphy learned to keep a house, a secret, and her head high in a town that remembers everything. When a chance Friday night at a riverfront tavern in small-town Indiana brings them face-to-face again, old boundaries and new courage collide.

He was the step-nephew at her family picnics; she was the young wife who smiled through whispers. Now he’s divorced, she’s a widow, and both are done living by other people’s rules. From porch steps and farmers markets to a rain-soaked harvest festival, their second chance unfolds in daylight—hands held, names spoken, the town watching.

As Luke’s new song—“Beautiful Dream Lady”—turns into a local anthem and a Nashville studio comes calling, the talkers of Tree Town have their say. But Emily and Luke have answers of their own: tomatoes on the table, a circle of porch-light art for anyone who needs it, and a love that refuses to sneak around.

Told in warm, plainspoken dual Point of View, Beautiful Dream Lady & The Magic Music Man is a hopeful, grown-up small-town romance about choosing “and” over “or”, making peace with the past, and building a life that’s honest enough to stand in the sun.