The Peculiar Fate of Holly Banks
Book Feature - The Peculiar Fate of Holly Banks by Julie Valerie
HBL Note: Can we get one thing straight? No one has it all. No one has it together all the time. No matter what it looks like on the outside (and especially on social media), everyone struggles from time to time. I want to pull Holly Banks aside and tell her, “Girl, it is okay to struggle. You don’t have to get everything right. Go easy on yourself.” But if there wasn’t a struggle, there wouldn’t be a novel. Scroll down to read more about The Peculiar Fate of Holly Banks by Julie Valerie.
From the publisher:
Holly Banks is on a desperate mission to have it all, but nothing in life goes according to plan. She’s quickly learning that keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time job, especially when the women of Primm, her new neighborhood, seem to have it together all the time.
With her husband’s job in flux, her daughter’s difficulty with learning to read, and her mother’s new zest for dating, Holly’s life is already anything but picture perfect. Then her dog digs up an old artifact in the village center, and the mishap draws the attention of local media. Because of course it would.
Holly finds herself at the center of a mystery between two rival towns that, if solved, could change the Village of Primm forever. Attention is the last thing she needs as she’s launching a new business, the village-wide “Parade of Homes” is approaching—though she’s hardly unpacked—and she needs to submit her entry for an upcoming film festival. Can Holly still create her perfect (looking) life? Or is fate about to go off script and give her a story she never could have imagined?