The Penny Tree

The Penny Tree is about a woman who is unexpectedly offered a second chance at happiness while coping with the fall-out from her failed marriage — a moving story involving a determined anonymous admirer and the complicated emotional terrain of a family slowly torn apart by a child’s life threatening illness.

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The Tin Box

The Tin Box is about deception and its consequences. It begins with Kenly Lowen, who is about to tell her husband a secret she’s kept from him for fifteen years. In her lap is an old tin box, and what’s inside might end her marriage and will change her family forever.

Letter to the Reader

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The Silver Compass

Holly is currently working on her third novel, The Silver Compass.

The Silver Compass takes us from the darkest moment of a young girl’s life to her rebirth years later as a widow with a troubled daughter of her own. The axis spins around a secret the reader is made aware of in the prologue between Ellis Williams (a seventeen year old girl) and Louie Johnson (an elderly black man), a secret Ellis must face years later when she moves back to the small town where she grew up.

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