Helga without the H

I am pleased to report the arrival of my third (self-)published novel, and the second book in the Hope the Little Fox series: Hope the Daring Fox!

Here’s a blurb:
Hope the Little Fox is back for another swashbuckling adventure! After a hectic youth spent battling bandits, The Others, and even her own friends and family, Hope’s life may finally be settling down. But when a charming, newly arrived royal befriends our young heroine and makes an odd request, how can Hope resist?

Join the Little Fox on a daring secret mission to unravel a long-buried mystery with far-reaching consequences. Her journey takes her from the sheltered depths of her homeland to the untamed expanse of the high seas. Along the way, Hope uncovers devastating truths about the world beyond her borders—and her own haunting connection to merciless slaughter.

This gripping tale of identity and redemption confronts the savagery of colonialism through one iron-willed young woman’s unbreakable resolve to atone for the past.

You can buy it!
Now available here on Amazon!
Paperback – $13.99
Kindle – $4.99

Check out the book’s Goodreads page and review here:  Goodreads
Please do me a huge solid and go add this book to your to-read list! And then, you know, it would be even more awesome if you went ahead and read the book, then loved it, then rated it 5 stars and told everyone you knew about it. But to-read list is also great.  🙂

I am exceedingly pleased that I again scored some amazing artwork by the monstrously talented (plus professional and prompt) Argentinian artist Maria Amaya. To my happy surprise Maria (at least pretended) remembered me from working on the cover of Hope the Little Fox, and she was just as perfect to work with this time as last time. I cannot rave enough. You should all go hire her. I mean, look at this!

My absolute biggest, most sincere THANK YOU goes out to my absolutely incredible, talented, brilliant, thorough, no-nonsense editor, my sister Silvija. I am ceaselessly grateful to have a professional editor as a sibling, and I’ve been exploiting this connection for my entire life. I did not, however, exploit my beloved sister for Hope the Little Fox, because I thought that a 300+ page manuscript would be too big an ask from a loved one (especially for someone as typo-prone as I am.) My work suffered for it. I’m eternally grateful that my sister managed to squeeze in my humble little project, probably losing sleep in the process.

I would also like to thank my loving and brilliant husband Mike for doing a final sweep. He made lots of very helpful comments, and caught tons of lingering issues that I’d managed to somehow add back into the manuscript after working through my sister’s edits. Critics who claimed my last book needed an editor should not be able to make those same claims on this go-around (knock on wood.)

This is my first attempt at writing a series, and I am learning quite a bit in the process. Expect a blog post about my learning curve at some point in the future. In the meantime, here is a link for the entire series:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBKRYKYF