I am Mary Frances, a Young Adult Christian Fiction author nestled in the foothills of Hickory, North Carolina, where the Blue Ridge Mountains cradle my writing sanctuary. My Holly Springs Series-three heartfelt novels that have touched thousands of young readers-explores the raw terrain of adolescent struggles through a lens of faith and hope.My Master's in Creative Writing from Liberty University has equipped me to craft narratives that speak directly to teenage hearts-stories of ...

GiGi Carabella, a high school swimmer at Blythewood High School, is ensnared in a brutal rivalry with Vanessa, her jealous teammate. Vanessa's envy morphs into relentless body shaming, shattering GiGi's self-esteem and pushing her towards anorexia.As GiGi's health deteriorates, despite her best friend Hannah's support, she finds herself hospitalized and on the brink of death. In rehab, she confronts the emotional scars from Vanessa's torment and discovers a scripture that reignites...

Brooklyn, a shy high school junior, feels overshadowed by her popular brother, Jaxson, and is constantly snubbed by the queen bee, Madison. Her only ally is her best friend, Joanna, but Brooklyn finds solace in her secret online chats with Hoopster1, unaware that he is actually Brody, Jaxson's wealthy and arrogant best friend. When Brooklyn is assigned to tutor Brody in English, their sessions are filled with tension as he dismisses her and treats her like she's beneath him. Yet, online, H...

Mysterious happenings to a small handicapped boy in a little Somerset village, way back in the 1930s, suddenly repeat themselves in the 21st Century. At the first event the villagers kept quiet about what they thought was either hallucination, witchcraft or a little boy’s mischief. They suspected, quite rightly, that they wouldn’t be believed. However, silence turns out to be impossible in the present media and online culture, with the result that the lives of two families are disrupted an...

This is a book for the Dont Knows, for the people so confused by the God/No God controversy that they have mostly stopped caring. With the odds at fifty-fifty, what difference does it make how we place our bets? What happens if we choose the wrong option, whichever it is?

It all started at an ice cream truck.In a typical American city on a typical neighborhood street, fifteen-year-old Mary Frances found herself the object of interest to Dirty Dan, a biker gang member more than a decade her senior. Neglected, abused, and hungry, Mary thought she had found the love and affection she longed for when this handsome biker singled her out with gifts of milkshakes and banana splits and told her he would make her a star.Little did she know that these...

Have you ever experienced heartbreak? Have you ever felt like you were being turned inside out and wondered how you were going to survive?I'll help you navigate the challenging period following a breakup in this book. A breakup is never simple, regardless of who started it—whether it was you who broke the relationship or your partner—but it is always very emotional, and it is essential to handle these emotions healthily and productively.This book will assist you in understa...

Some very wise people would call this a story book, some a manual training book, and others a cookery book, but Mary Frances knows better; she knows that it is a Book within a Book that introduced her to Aunty Rolling Pin and a lot of other dear, dear friends, such as no little girl ever had before, and whom she now wishes to introduce for the first time to all other little girls. (I know that she gained their consent to do this because she told me so.)In the hope that Mary Frances'...

The Mary Frances Story Book is different from the other Mary Frances Books. They are part lessons and part story; they teach something about cooking and sewing, knitting and crocheting, housekeeping and gardening, and first-aid--and tell a story, too; but The Mary Frances Story Book is all story.

The Mary Frances Cook Book: Adventures Among the Kitchen People is a charming and imaginative early 20th-century children’s cookbook written by Jane Eayre Fryer. First published in 1912, this delightful volume blends practical cooking instruction with whimsical storytelling, making it both an educational resource and a captivating read for young readers. The story follows Mary Frances, a curious and eager little girl, as she embarks on culinary adventures in her grandmother’s kitchen. Guid...

Children's story peppered with 40 recipes. First published in 1912. According to the Preface: "This book tells the story of Mary Frances, a little girl whose great ambition was to help her mother. So anxious was she to do this that even the humble Kitchen People became her teachers and instructors. They talked to her, a thing never heard of before; helped her over the hard places, and explained mysterious secrets she could never otherwise have understood. They wove around a simple little b...

The Mary Frances Sewing Book: Adventures Among the Thimble People is a charming and imaginative instructional guide for young readers, first published in 1913 and written by Jane Eayre Fryer. Blending practical sewing lessons with delightful storytelling, the book follows the adventures of Mary Frances, a curious and eager little girl, as she learns the art of sewing with the help of her magical friends—the Thimble People. These whimsical characters, including Sewing Bird, Tommy Pin Cushio...