Welcome to Lawhoma Hills

In Lawhoma Hills, the land keeps its own memory. Creeks argue with drought and sometimes lose. Hills answer when you pay attention. This is a story about what a place costs to hold onto. Told with the same devotion Yaya gives two butterflies who wouldn't leave her garden the summer her daughter carried twins.

A Year Behind the Pink Door is warm and funny, gentle enough to hand to your daughter or your mother. A family forged by Broadway tunes on the porch and a fight against a company that never asked what the land meant to anyone. The most wondrous parts of life show up small: a day at the lake under the shade of an old oak, or the impossible thousand miles carried on a butterfly’s tiny wings.

The animals who live there aren't playing a part. They're foxes and crows and bears, entirely themselves, whose families held this ground long before anyone wrote it down, and when it needs defending, they're not voiceless about it either. They've built a community: a barbershop, a post office, a farmers market on Saturday mornings, and a grandmother named Yaya keeping watch behind a hot pink door.

Inside her journals, she writes it all down. The seasons, the neighbors, the dinner tables that keep growing extra chairs. Then a company out of Tulsa sets its sights on 163 acres along Blue Creek Lake, and the community learns what it will have to endure to keep what's theirs: the land, each other, and every ordinary childhood happening on top of it.

For readers who love the community found in Jan Karon's Mitford series, Marcellus's wisdom in Remarkably Bright Creatures, and Kingsolver's reverence for what nature is trying to tell us in Flight Behavior.

The Camp Run Amuck Series

The Camp Run Amuck books follow the children first introduced in the Lawhoma Hills novels. Set over a single Oklahoma summer or season, each standalone story follows the characters as they discover who they are along dirt roads, creek banks, and pasture fences in one of fiction's most beloved small towns. Filled with friendship, family, adventure, banned books borrowed from Spruce Street Books, and a curated playlist, the series celebrates curiosity, courage, and growing up rooted in community.

For Readers Age 8-13, each book stands alone—together they create the world.