The novels.
Three fictional worlds, with different histories and different dangers. The Natalie series follows a real woman's long pursuit of freedom through four imagined novels. The Keeper enters Rachel's private struggle with love and memory. The Hollar brings questions of identity into the everyday life of rural Appalachia.
01 / HISTORICAL FICTIONTHE NATALIE SERIESThe Natalie Series
Four novels. One woman. A lifetime of beautiful disobedience.
Natalie Clifford Barney was born into a world that had already decided what a woman should want.
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THE KEEPERThe Keeper
She is coming. I hear her take the stairs two at a time, not pausing at the landing.
There are things a woman can say in the privacy of a bedroom that she would never dare admit in daylight.
Explore Rachel’s story ↗The Hollar
In the mountains of 1970s Appalachia, a family can know every bend in the road and still be unable to find its way out of its own history.
Life in the hollars is shaped by work, weather, kinship, and the practical knowledge passed from one generation to another. People know how to mend what breaks, how to make a little last, and how to recognize trouble long before it reaches the front porch.
Enter The Hollar ↗What each life asks of its characters.
Natalie must act against the future chosen for her. Rachel must live with what memory brings back. In The Hollar, the familiar world cannot supply every answer. Their circumstances differ, and so do the costs of knowing.
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