AVAILABLE NOW: When We’re Broken | Women of Asher, Book 2
Two decades after divorce, high school sweethearts come together to learn how it all went wrong in the sweeping, romantic women’s fiction saga, When We’re Broken.
How many years apart are too many for a first—and only—love?
Catherine didn’t just lose her father at sixteen: She lost everything. From her mother refusing to grieve, her brother distancing himself in all the worst ways, and her best friend abandoning her in her time of need, to becoming a social outcast amongst her peers—Catherine was buried beneath the rubble of her own life.
Meeting Glen—the arrogant, attention-seeking new kid from Chicago—was just the thing she didn’t need, until he befriended her brother, and she was left wondering…what if?
From a whirlwind teenage romance to their escape into young newlywed bliss, neither foresaw how the impacts of trauma they didn’t understand would lead to decades of longing: for each other, for the lives they were meant to lead, and for the people they were meant to be.
A southern, multi-generational story of love, loss, and life that asks: What happens when two people who can’t be together—but also can’t be apart—find each other one last time, after their scars are healed?
When We’re Broken is the second novel in the Women of Asher series, following Shawna Holly's debut novel, The Stories We Keep.
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About Me
I grew up in a small(ish) town in Oklahoma and have since lived in Texas, Florida, Utah, Virginia, and Texas (again). I’m a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences, and U.S. Air Force veteran, with two deployments to Iraq supporting missions there and Afghanistan.
Shortly after our third child was born, I launched a hyper-local blog which focused on life in the Texas Hill Country, particularly in our wonderful hometown. Through this, I met many wonderful business owners, non-profit organizers, and folks with active community leadership roles. I also enjoyed the opportunity to write for other local publications and host social and networking events for local women. Additionally, from January 2020-September 2023, I owned and operated a boutique web design firm serving small businesses and organizations in Texas and beyond.
In 2018, I had a crazy idea to try my hand at fiction for the first time. I fell in love with the creative process and now, when I’m not mothering or taking care of home and business, I write—and dream. Sometimes I write what I dream! I’m a firm believer in the magic that happens in the fuzzy state between asleep and awake, and in the crazy conversations that ensue on the back porch after dark. The only thing I believe in more? The strong coffee which helps get all the dreamed-up words from head-to-page in the light of day, of course!
