“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
—George Eliot
(English novelist, 1819–1880)
Books
Notes from the Past
A Family History of Early Mining Pioneers
on the Colorado Front Range
Based on hand-written notes, ledgers and diaries the author found tucked away in a battered box, hidden in her family home for more than 40 years, Notes from the Past details the true story, personal account of the author’s paternal grandparents, spanning more than 120 years—from the 1840s to the 1960s—and who witnessed profound changes in the country. This riveting history and narrative nonfiction delves into the booming silver mining in Colorado’s Front Range mountains at the turn of the twentieth century, an industry fraught with disaster and full of prosperity.
266 pages
Paperback edition: ISBN 979-8-58017-255-2
Hardcover edition: ISBN 978-0-9834829-4-9
Growing Up on Concord
This charming memoir recounts the author’s mother and her own upbringing in the peaceful, quiet mountain town of Boulder, Colorado, in the first half of the twentieth century. Growing Up on Concord is a unique American story, one steeped in memory as it pays homage to a simpler time and place. A treasured story of family, childhood and self-discovery, Growing Up on Concord recounts youth’s memorable lessons and adventures, and the deep bond that can form between siblings who seem helpless to the ever-changing world and events around them.
374 pages
Paperback edition: ISBN (TO COME)
Hardcover edition: ISBN 978-0-9834829-5-6
Cottage in the Clouds
In this captivating autobiography, author Violet Lee Hunt recounts the travails of two senior women determined to make a better, happier life for themselves, as they experience the trials and joys of building a mountain home over the course of three years in Estes Park, Colorado. A daughter’s touching, personal story of her deep-bonded relationship with her 96-year-old mother and her subsequent confrontation with the final stages of her mother’s life, as they experience moments of great happiness and profound loss on their journey of personal growth and self-discovery.
Paperback • 110 pages • ISBN 978-0-9834829-2-5
Injured Cougar
A Romantic Fantasy
After working forty-five years in difficult, high-stress jobs, a senior woman has reached a crossroads in her life. She finds herself in retirement and in a round-the-clock care-giving role tending to the needs of her elderly mother. She herself though is not physically strong and soon enough suffers from a bad fall and must have replacement hip surgery. This thrilling romantic fantasy tells of her personal self-discovery while recovering in the hospital and the mysterious surgeon who befriends her.
Paperback edition • 108 pages • ISBN 978-09834829-3-2
Lavendar Muse
Three Short Stories About Women Who Find True Friends in Former Strangers
This collection of three short stories centers around the strength of three women and how strangers thought to be true friends helped them. The stories take place shortly before or after the new millennium. The heroines in each story range in age from their early twenties to their early sixties. The stories in this collection are titled, “Red Hats and Satin Sandals”, “Bluebeard and the Heiress”, and “Sea Cabin Sisters.” Ms. Hunt’s books are filled with spark and excitement, with many of her stories centered around the love lives of couples, unrequited love, as well as love gone sour. The characters in her stories are tinged with vacillating elements of sadness and glory, full of confidence, yet vulnerable to the varied passions that love’s wind blows.
Paperback edition • 158 pages • ISBN 978-09834829-0-1
Patterns of Deceit
Four Couples’ Stories of Love Lost
This collection of three short stories centers around the strength of three women and how strangers thought to be true friends helped them. The stories take place shortly before or after the new millennium. The heroines in each story range in age from their early twenties to their early sixties. The stories in this collection are titled, “Red Hats and Satin Sandals”, “Bluebeard and the Heiress”, and “Sea Cabin Sisters.” Ms. Hunt’s books are filled with spark and excitement, with many of her stories centered around the love lives of couples, unrequited love, as well as love gone sour. The characters in her stories are tinged with vacillating elements of sadness and glory, full of confidence, yet vulnerable to the varied passions that love’s wind blows.
Paperback edition • 112 pages • ISBN 978-09834829-1-8