Johanna's Secret

After experiencing a painful breakup of a long-term relationship, therapist and part time author Hennie Barritt decides to finally pursue her long held dream of writing a novel. While traveling up the coast of New England, she comes across a garden cottage that she feels drawn to, and on a whim, decides it is perfect location for her to make a fresh start, get away from the busy city life in Baltimore, and work on her book. As Hennie settles into her new life in Massachusetts, she learns of the unsolved disappearance of an entire family nearly a century ago - a family that vanished from the very cottage that she's now renting. Naturally curious and easily intrigued, Hennie becomes determined to discover more about the history of her house and family who once called it home. As she begins to investigate, with she's drawn into a world of secrets deeper than she could have imagined.

Maya Northen Augelli is a writer, travel planner, health advocate, and yoga instructor from Philadelphia. Her nonfiction work has been published in several anthologies including Playing & Staying At the Top of Your Game and Joshua Rividel's The i'M Possible Project: Lemonade Stand. Her health advocacy writing has been featured across numerous platforms in the industry, and extensively on her mental health advocacy blog, Lilies and Elephants. In 2013, the inspiration for the first scene in a story struck. Soon, The characters began to come to life on the page and Johanna's Secret, Maya's first novel, was born. To learn more about Maya, visit her website at maya-augelli.com.