The Astrid Beeswax Series

Astrid Beeswax hears everything. She has no choice.

Thirteen years ago, she watched Harold Braggart, golden heir of the Braggart Dynasty, strike the match that killed her father and blinded her mother. She never told a soul.

Instead, she opened The Bee's Knees, the most charming flower shop in Doily Dayle. Every arrangement comes with a cheerful plastic bumblebee, and a few of those bees are listening.

Now Harold is bribing recruits for the town's beloved hockey team, the auditors are coming, and he's found the perfect scapegoat: Astrid's trusting twin brother, Roland.

Armed with a crown, a dress, and a talent for eavesdropping, Astrid has one week to outwit a family with billions. But the closer she gets to Harold, the harder it becomes to remember why she hates him.

In a world ruled by status and wealth, nothing is more dangerous, or more lucrative, than knowing business that isn't yours.

Forgiveness was supposed to be the hard part.

Months after the fall of the Braggart Dynasty, Astrid Beeswax is certain of one thing: Adelaide Braggart hasn't gone anywhere. No one has seen or heard from her, yet someone keeps leaving Astrid letters in her late father's handwriting, each one crueler than the last.

Roland, Doily Dayle's most loyal cheerleader, is sidelined with a broken collarbone and accused of using a track meet for children with physical disabilities to promote himself. Nova and her new friend, Jasper, are up to their own brand of delightful mischief. And Harold, caring for the father he barely knows, stumbles onto a forty-year-old disappearance and an invention that was never meant to be found.

As the eccentric cast of Doily Dayle digs into the past, Astrid learns that some secrets bite back.

Get ready for another heartwarming, witty tale as family bonds are tested to their limits.

She has fire on her head, and fire in her heart.

Nova Flaherty is an intuitive girl with an indomitable spirit and a limitless imagination. After the loss of both of her parents, she moves to Doily Dayle to live with her great-uncle, Mr. Charles Pip. There, she finds a special place in the hearts of her new patchwork family—including Astrid Beeswax, the queen bee of the local floral empire.

But life is not easy for the Fire Child, especially at school, where the demand to fit in is unforgiving to those who dare to stand out. Nova soon discovers that her sharp observations—and her teacher’s hypocrisy—are just as unwelcome as she feels, and that Doily Dayle is far more complicated than it first appears.

Heartfelt, witty, and wonderfully quirky, Chronicles of the Fire Child invites readers of all ages to step into a story about courage, kindness, and the power of asking questions.