Alice Anyway

She was born into silence. Raised on survival. And taught to stay small. But the hills had other plans.📖 #1 Bestseller in Women’s Historical Fiction, Historical Literary Fiction & Women’s Literary FictionAlice Aniway has always been the quiet one. The forgotten one. Left behind by a mother she never knew and outcast by the sisters who should have loved her, she finds solace in the hills of Appalachia—and in the steady presence of her father.When the unthinkable happens, sixteen-year-old Alice is suddenly alone on the family’s rugged homestead. Grief carves its way through her days—until a stranger arrives with polished shoes, deep blue eyes, and a promise of safety wrapped in scripture.He offers stability. Community. Purpose. All the things Alice believes she’s supposed to want.But safety can be a kind of silence. And obedience, a quiet undoing.As expectations deepen into rules, and devotion begins to blur into control, Alice must decide whether the life being built around her is truly hers—or a cage dressed up as a calling.Set against the haunting beauty of mid-century Appalachia, Alice Anyway is a deeply lyrical, emotionally immersive novel about grief, resilience, and the slow, radical act of reclaiming one’s voice.✨ A haunting, lyrical debut, Alice Anyway is for readers who loved Where the Crawdads Sing and The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.