Callie Elliston Smith Books

Life is a Ruin that leaves us alone,

love is a hilltop we can on our own,

Will the endless night reveal the day?

When the pain is kept at bay

Thirty-four-year-old artist Cara Brennan lived a fantasy life with her two children and her husband, Ryan. But, when Ryan dies unexpectedly, Cara voyages to his homeland of Ireland, where she must confront her in laws with news of Ryan’s death. Hoping to find peace from her grief, Cara instead stumbles into a world which is wrought with lies and betrayals and filled with stories of fairies and abductions. Unable to reconcile the man she loved with the man she is beginning to know; Cara seeks refuge in the culture-filled comforts of her husband’s childhood home and into the arms of the very last people she should hold dear. When her new life becomes unrecognizable, will Cara be able to escape the world that has consumed her, or will she be lost to the fairies, like centuries of women who came before her?     

Coming Fall 2023