Ruby

Ruby, a young woman growing up in the remote town of Big Chimney, in the deep woods of Virginia, faces challenges not common to someone her age. She is met with role reversals as her mother’s mental capacity shrinks and Ruby is bound to her care. She has the support of her Aunt Myrtle, elderly friend Ginny, a close-knit community, and a cowboy named Jason. This might be enough until Ruby is being visited by a fox who keeps to the edges of the woods and who fills her dreams. This is a tale of love and the mysteries that weave the fabric of family, relationship, and our place in one another's lives. Follow Ruby as she navigates life under the impact of her mother's dementia, and blossoms, tended by those who care, and a fox who guides her beyond the present.

Ruby, a young woman growing up in the remote town of Big Chimney, in the deep woods of Virginia, faces challenges not common to someone her age. She is met with role reversals as her mother’s mental capacity shrinks and Ruby is bound to her care. She has the support of her Aunt Myrtle, elderly friend Ginny, a close-knit community, and a cowboy named Jason. This might be enough until Ruby is being visited by a fox who keeps to the edges of the woods and who fills her dreams. This is a tale of love and the mysteries that weave the fabric of family, relationship, and our place in one another's lives. Follow Ruby as she navigates life under the impact of her mother's dementia, and blossoms, tended by those who care, and a fox who guides her beyond the present.

Anna Esther Pearl, writer and poet, lives in the small town of Soquel, California, pocketed between the mountains of Santa Cruz and the beaches of Monterey Bay. She finds inspiration there and in her travels. She is a lover of all nature, and an avid horsewoman. She writes with purpose, engaging the reader, bringing vibrant characters to life simply, yet deeply, in stories that are meant to inspire and encourage. Ruby is her second novel, after June: A Modern Tale.