A woman’s temporary escape turns into a permanent reversal of fortunes.
Protesting Hollywood exploitation, Cole Lavetsky storms away from her executive-level career. She decamps to a rent-free condo on Ambergris Caye, Belize with her vintage guitar, the beginnings of a revenge novel, and a timeline to reinvent herself—outside the shadow of her golden-boy twin brother, a former child star.
During her first seaside stroll, Cole becomes captivated by the ruins of a fantastical, pink-painted resort. When she meets Elias, a seven-year-old prodigy living there, she feels oddly compelled to help. Anything—even if it means cozying up to the island’s infamous (and annoyingly good-looking) expat, the educational philanthropist Thatcher Ames. Though Cole chafes at his suggestion to leave well enough alone, business beach walks somehow segue to sunset dinner dates. She tells herself there’s no harm in having a little fun. Until the child’s grandma, an elderly Mayan wisdom keeper, delivers an unwelcome prophecy and Cole begins to fear that in denying her past, she’s put Elias’s future—and the hearts of everyone involved—in jeopardy.
At turns lighthearted and achingly candid, Little Pink Houses is a journey… To an island, yes. But ultimately to the astonishing possibilities that open up when we grant our loved ones—and ourselves—the grace to be imperfect.
(Bonus! Click HERE for the accompanying playlist: A mix of Cole’s favorites, songs that play a role in the book, plus other tunes that inspired me while I was writing.)
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The destiny she always dreamed of is knocking. But do the stars have other plans?
Kaya Blue Calloway literally bears the scar—down her left arm—of growing up with a pot smoking mother who refused to be called Mom. She’s certain that Margo’s hippie-mystic parenting is the reason she’s afraid to have kids. Why she’s about to lose the man she’s in love with. And why she lost Carlie, her only childhood friend, whose silver-spoon life Kaya envied.
Now, at thirty-one, Carlie is dead. Kaya returns to Margo’s remote cottage in Door County, Wisconsin to attend the memorial service. Her plan: Make peace with the past so she can confidently move into the future. High hopes for a four-day visit—especially with everyone tiptoeing around the truth. As memories surface like magic mushrooms, Kaya begins to see Margo’s disdain for Carlie’s moneyed world as partly justified. Until she uncovers an unforgivable betrayal—fracturing her fragile self-worth, tipping her sympathies fully back to Carlie.
But Kaya is about to discover that trust-fund girls struggle, too. After all… Carlie is dead.
Set in the early 2000s, Tripping Through Stars is a wry coming-of-age tale, a star-crossed romance, a poignant mother-daughter story, and an unflinching look at the transformative power of female friendship.
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