Books

The Hidden Valley Series

NEW TOMORROWS: Love - Courage - Hope

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This book is fiction, but Domestic Violence Survivors will confirm it’s grounded in reality!

September 11, 2001, left most of us reeling, but for Jon and Allie that day left a deep scar on their hearts. When their lives unexpectedly cross years later in a rural Appalachian Mountain community, they are both still recoiling from their personal spin-out and trauma from that day. Hers was domestic violence. His was grief from loss.

Can they heal each other?

Follow the story of a career fire fighter and an infection control nurse as they re-build their broken lives, while engaged in creating a New Tomorrows shelter for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Strongly immersed in a volunteer Fire/EMS brotherhood, this story shows how Love, Courage, and Hope can break through the barriers of the past.

STARTING OVER: A Father by Choice

Wanda won’t identity her baby’s father.

Randy has never given up on her or the child he comes to love as his own, so they rekindle their broken teenage love. As Carter grows, his mother’s secret puts him in danger. The truth must be revealed.

But is it what she believes?

Or something entirely different?

Follow Wanda and Randy on their page-turning journey to solve an unexpected mystery and navigate drama and a nail-biting rescue before he can adopt Carter and become a Father by Choice.

Told against the backdrop of the Hidden Valley Fire & Rescue company, Starting Over is more than a happily-ever-after second-chance love story. It's a story of compassion, friendship, community, and finding courage to overcome personal trauma.

FREEDOM SEEKERS: A Mountain Family Saga, Civil War to Civil Rights

A Spirit of Activism defined the tumultuous sixties.

Descended from generations of Granny Women, the Healers of Hidden Valley, Tillis is drawn into the 1960s college Civil Rights Movement, where she finds purpose, friendship, and love.

While she struggles to decide between a future in scientific research or the expectations of her heritage, family journals reveal her forebears' encounters with enslaved Freedom Seekers during the Civil War Era. Unexpected events add to her dilemma.

The saga unfolds in the words of those Appalachian Mountain Women who came before her.

Join readers on a historical journey driven by a passion for freedom that continues today.

Coming in 2027

Words and Wings: A Pack Horse Librarian Historical Romance

Inspired by the Pack Horse Librarians, this stand-alone book will draw you in with a heartfelt story that is historical romance with just a touch of fantasy.

The orphaned child of a Kentucky coal mine family, Mary Pearl discovers the world of books. They become her shield against loneliness.

In 1935 she becomes a Pack Horse Librarian. On her assigned route in the hills of eastern Kentucky, she unexpectedly encounters Garrett, a man who asks for children’s picture books, common among illiterate hill folk.

A gentle man, he cares for her mule when the animal goes lame. When Garrett reveals he has a secret daughter, Abigail, she carries the seriously ill child to the town doctor on her new mount.

The little girl’s claims of a golden horse with wings are too wild to be believed. Or are they?

Mary Pearl discovers Garrett holds other secrets that leave her wary about her growing feelings. She decides to trust him when he asks for help to protect the child others call a Mongolian Idiot.

Second Chances: A Vet Tech Romantic Thriller (Hidden Valley Book Four)

Classmates in High School, Susanna and Brink only knew each as faces on the school bus.

Years later, she returns to Hidden Valley with a PhD in Anthropology to accept what she thought would be a temporary job to open a museum and memorial center to Freedom Seekers.

During those years, Brink found purpose as an Emergency Veterinary Technician and volunteer fire fighter, with a personal mission to rescue abused fighting dogs.

When their lives collide, Brink's mission puts them in the crosshairs of the dog fight criminals, whose arsenals include weapons and arson. He finds himself at the center of heart pounding danger and rescues that go beyond saving his beloved dogs, when the woman he has come to love is thrust into the center of the criminal's violence.

Full Length Books by Ann Heap