About The House at the Top of the Trees

My first novel, the inspiration came to me when over the years when my husband and I with our Pomeranians walked a 2-mile trek around the block. Like most of New Hampshire, we have flat surfaces and rises and hills which gives us a variety of terrain and a good workout for both of us and our dogs. On this walk when we reached a peak in the road before the decline, when you looked out at the trees where the road began to rise up again, you saw a house. Over the years, it began to look like it was sitting at the top of the cluster of trees in the distance. Again and again, I would point out ‘the house at the top of the trees’ until a story began to form.

The story involved a young girl, pre-teen, and her younger brother and they day they learned that their bikes could take them up to the house at the top of the trees where a whole other world existed. Part fantasy part real-life, the brother and sister, Nat and Devon, find themselves in a world where they were given unconditional love, along with the other children who made their ways to this world. But do they want to stay or return to a single mom who works hard to give her children a few special treats in life while sacrificing the time that they don’t get enough of but would prefer?

This is the first story in a series that I am currently working on. The next book in this series is “The Castle at the Bottom of the Sea”.