The Love Tones
Finding Identity
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It’s the palest gray. A drop of color on a blank canvas. Muted. Subtle.
Insidious.
It’s a tone of voice. A blurred definition. A lie wrapped in innocence, a desire kept secret, a thought concealed and justified. A foothold disguised.
Given time and negligence, it deepens and spreads. Slowly, softly at first, then as a steady stream unchecked once you embrace its presence as truth. Once you welcome it in.
Then it darkens and draws you into its velvet depths. Down, down, down until the canvas becomes as onyx and opaque as a new moon at midnight.
Not that you notice, cocooned and cozy as you are.
No, you only notice when the obsidian blanket begins suffocating you, forcing you down and tearing you apart. When the haven becomes a dungeon and the velvet turns to razor-edged blades.
There the darkness shreds you to pieces, leaving you eviscerated and reeling with the remnants of everything you thought you were. A broken shell desperate for wholeness.
The light flickers at the edges of your conscience, glows in the dark, but you barely notice, consumed as you are with frantically trying to hold the scraps of yourself together.
It’s a futile effort. The darkness always comes back. Eventually your strength fails and movement ceases.
Everything stills.
Here you exist, suspended in a hollow dwelling that has become both agony and oasis. Here the fade of palest gray to darkest black begins.
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About the Book
At a critical point in her life, author Nicole Noelle begins to journal, trying to make sense of the noise in her brain. It’s the documentation of her experience during the fallout, a collection of data as she understands it. It’s not pretty, but it’s reality.
She’s guilty of adultery, but knows she’s been forgiven by a God whose love knows no bounds. Nicole lives in an alternating cycle of depression, anxiety, confusion, and numbness. She’s in love with a man who isn’t her husband—but her husband still loves her and wants to make the marriage work.
In The Love Tones, Nicole offers a real-life narrative of overcoming infidelity in relationships, managing chronic illness, and trusting in the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. It dives deep into hard issues and faith development and demonstrates the mercy, grace, and never-failing love of God.
About the Author
Nicole Noelle is a daughter of God, wife, and mother of three. She enjoys reading, camping, hiking, the rain, soul food, and time with her family, whether chosen or by blood.