Hungry Hill

2021 Best Book Awards Finalist in the Best New Fiction category and Finalist in the Best Cover Design: Fiction category2021 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite in the Contemporary Novel categoryGrace Cavanaugh is intelligent kind-and a bit of a wise ass. Lately though shes also something else: completely lost and just a little crazy. Her entire world has collapsed since Valentines Day when her husband Michael died unexpectedly after a romantic dinner celebrating their devotion. With her world turned upside down she abandons the couples gorgeous Victorian mansion and retreats to a cramped apartment with their three dogs in tow. Living in misery barely finding energy to walk the dogs Grace succumbs to her sorrow.Just as she hits bottom a relative she hasnt seen in years calls out of the blue. Maggie Reilly her eighty-six-year-old great aunt who still lives in the house she was born in has troubles of her own. She desperately needs a family member to take care of her so she reaches out to Grace hoping the bond they shared decades ago remains strong enough to bring her great niece back home.Hungry Hill is a story navigating the complexities of love in its many forms and how it endures. It explores our desire to belong to each other and to live a life of connectedness. It also reminds us to keep our sense of humor no matter what life brings and to never underestimate the power of a great pair of shoes.