Lorna Hollifield

"Evocative and suspenseful, Bright Little Girls will keep you turning the pages and guessing until the very end." -Patti Callahan Henry, NYT Bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora LeaA wannabe author. A narcissistic musician. A serial killer. An average girl. Someone tells the story. Someone is the story. Someone steals the story. Someone won't make it out of the story.Eliane Pangolin isn't like anyone her mysterious follower has ever met. She's a 27-year-old struggling writer and wannabe dancer fighting obsessive-compulsive disorder while coping with her connection to a brutal crime. When she isn't defying a restraining order by writing letters to an old friend, she's trying to navigate feelings of both betrayal and beguile toward her lifelong male best friend. Everything in her life pulls from two directions, creating a tug-o-war she isn't sure to escape.Hollifield masterfully paints a character of conflicting attributes, a girl who lies underneath fake palm trees in her living room, but who also has an old soul that she swears once rubbed elbows with the Fitzgerald's on some Parisian street. Broken and brilliant, antagonizing and alluring, readers will love following Eliane just as much as her narrator in the shadows.A story about art, obsession, guilt, crime, and lust for... everything, Bright Little Girls is about learning to cope by finding the self, the most elusive character of all. This story will seep into the soul then invite it to come out and play.

"Evocative and suspenseful, Bright Little Girls will keep you turning the pages and guessing until the very end." -Patti Callahan Henry, NYT Bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora LeaA wannabe author. A narcissistic musician. A serial killer. An average girl. Someone tells the story. Someone is the story. Someone steals the story. Someone won't make it out of the story.Eliane Pangolin isn't like anyone her mysterious follower has ever met. She's a 27-year-old struggling writer and wannabe dancer fighting obsessive-compulsive disorder while coping with her connection to a brutal crime. When she isn't defying a restraining order by writing letters to an old friend, she's trying to navigate feelings of both betrayal and beguile toward her lifelong male best friend. Everything in her life pulls from two directions, creating a tug-o-war she isn't sure to escape.Hollifield masterfully paints a character of conflicting attributes, a girl who lies underneath fake palm trees in her living room, but who also has an old soul that she swears once rubbed elbows with the Fitzgerald's on some Parisian street. Broken and brilliant, antagonizing and alluring, readers will love following Eliane just as much as her narrator in the shadows.A story about art, obsession, guilt, crime, and lust for... everything, Bright Little Girls is about learning to cope by finding the self, the most elusive character of all. This story will seep into the soul then invite it to come out and play.

The year is 1947. The war is over, Jackie Robinson has just integrated baseball, and Frank Sinatra breezes in over the fuzzy airwaves. A sense of relief is finally sweeping the nation...everywhere except Tobaccoville, North Carolina. Beyond the rural fields that are pregnant with decades of secrets, a mysterious Hollywood pin-up is jailed for murder while her facially birthmarked half-sister may hold the answers as to why. The two girls, estranged for years, share a haunting past, a shell-shocked love interest, and maybe even a cruel destiny. Through mountains of lies, the truth that inevitably comes pouring out of the tobacco leaves will come to light. Will this light reveal the path to the siblings' foreordained destruction, or their long-awaited deliverance? Will they realize they each hold the power to set the other free before it's too late? A story of heritage, hurt, and somehow, hope; Tobacco Sun keeps you on the edge of your seat while you find yourself rooting for redemption.