Julie Gaskill

Owl Hollow Witches Julie Gaskill

After hearing her mother's grim health diagnosis, fifty-nine year old Ivory Forrest retires early and moves back to her childhood home to help. She can't expect her Aunt Lulu to manage her mother alone. The two sisters have been living together for a decade after losing their spouses. It's also rumored that the two old women practice witchcraft on their rural farm in Owl Hollow. That has some folks in the small, southern town of Pleasantville, Tennessee deeply troubled. Ivory knows the rumor is nonsense. In fact, she finds it comical at first. Later, when she is overheard in town expressing her opinion on a local matter, she becomes aware of how fearful some citizens are over the idea of witchcraft. As a result, Ivory finds the law on her mother's doorstep. Across the creek from Owl Hollow, sixty-five year old widower Mark Ryan has retired from a long career in banking and has recently moved into his hunting cabin, where he plans to live year round. When mark is asked by his son, a part- time carpenter, to help quote a job in Owl Hollow, his first inclination is to decline. Mark moved to the country to hunt. In the end, he agrees to help. The last thing Mark is looking for are any romantic complications. When he meets Ivory Forrest, the newest resident of Owl Hollow, something happens. Mark will question his resolve to remain single, while suddenly being stalked by an owl that might be trying to tell him something. He will also be put in the position of defending Ivory and her family against what appears to be a witch hunt.