Witty, heartfelt stories about the families we’re born into and the ones we sew together.
AUTHOR · STORYTELLER · QUILTER OF PATCHWORK FAMILIES
Step into Doily Dayle, a town of busybodies, secrets, and second chances, where a florist who hears everything learns she can’t save her town alone.
BOOK ONE
The Sting
She hears their secrets.
“… clever, composed, and delightfully vengeful.” - GOODREADS REVIEW
FOR ADULT READERS
Astrid Beeswax hears everything. She has no choice. When she uses her gift to uncover Doily Dayle’s corruption, she learns that only her patchwork family can help her stop it.
BOOK TWO
The Venom
Some secrets bite back.
“… both charming and, at times, chilling!” - AMAZON REVIEW
BOOK THREE
The Hive
The hive is stirring.
In Doily Dayle, gone has never meant finished.
FOR YOUNG READERS - AGES 8-11
After losing both of her parents, Nova moves to Doily Dayle to live with her great-uncle, Mr. Charles Pip, and finds a place in the hearts of her new patchwork family, Astrid Beeswax included. Nova’s story, told in her own words.
Nova Flaherty sees what grown-ups would rather she didn’t.
Chronicles of the
THE WORLD OF THE BOOKS
Welcome to Doily Dayle
Meet the town, read the first chapter, and bring Astrid to your book club.
ONE COZY FAMILY
No one needs to be alone.
I believe in the power and necessity of patchwork families. We can be sisters and brothers, different patches from different sources, sewn together in love. It’s the heart of every book I write, and of everything I make.
“Patchwork families are like patchwork quilts; you pick up the pieces that make you smile, and you sew them to the other pieces that make you smile until your collection is so big that it covers your heart.”
— Nova, Chronicles of the Fire Child