Local author, T.J. Banks will be at the Bookhouse on Friday, October 30th, featuring her recent award-winning book, Moonlight & Grace.

"Land has memory," Dr. Mullen tells his old friend, artist Grace Tyne. She learns the truth of those words when she inherits her godmother's home. The house and the grounds are holding on to one memory in particular: the alleged suicide of a young woman there a few years earlier. The otherworldly happenings that follow lead Grace to question many things...including the wisdom of taking on a place that is already possessed.

Drawn into the mystery surrounding the girl's death, Grace receives unexpected help from two kindred souls -- an elderly neighbor and Moonlight, a telepathic Abyssinian cat. Through them, she learns that the world is indeed full of magic, not all of it good, and that ghosts may take many shapes. And that this inherited place of memories may still have the capacity to forget....

T. J. Banks is the author of MOONLIGHT & GRACE (winner of the 2025 Cat Writers' Association Muse Medallion for the General Fiction Books), ABYS AMONG US & OTHER STORIES FOR THE FELINE-INCLINED (winner of the 2020 Cat Writers' Association Muse Medallion for Non-fiction Books), CATSONG (winner of the 2007 Merial Human-Animal Bond Award), A TIME FOR SHADOWS, HOUDINI, SKETCH PEOPLE, THE TWICE-GIVEN GIFT & OTHER WRITINGS, and SOULEIADO. Her poems "Moonlight" (CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: THE MAGIC OF CATS) and "Solstice, Light & Dark" (LAJOIE) have received Muse Medallions for Poetry from the Cat Writers' Association (CWA). Her fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have been widely anthologized and received awards from the CWA, BYLINE, and THE WRITING SELF.