The Pollen Path

by Adriana Devoy

Ally Penney is a gifted thirteen-year-old whose world is crushed when her parents suffer a financial blow. Forced to give up private school and her social clubs, she becomes attracted to the troubled loner, Peter, and takes up the solitary sport of running, through the flower-filled paths of the Salmonier estate. She finds herself in the care of her three young aunts, Jessica, Jewel, and Mimi; and becomes witness and accomplice to their many romantic adventures.

Jessica is a piano prodigy harboring a secret and juggling a love triangle, while she battles with local developers eager to foreclose on her historic estate. The beautiful Jewel pours her turbulent passions into abandoned animals and dangerous men, but when an accident leaves her life hanging in the balance, a celestial vision sets her on an unforeseen path. Mimi is the glue that holds together the trio, but her self-effacing ways may sabotage her own ambitions and chance at love.

The Salmonier estate weathers a winter of blizzards, an intoxicating spring and a sultry summer; is the scene of two weddings, and a way station during the region’s worst fire. Yet the clock is ticking on the day it will be lost to public auction. On its enchanted grounds, during an unforgettable year, young Ally learns about life, love, creativity, friendship, family, and second chances.

309 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 25, 2012

About the author

Adriana Devoy is the author of four novels. Blue Rose In Chelsea is a Cinderella story set in 1980s Manhattan and has been called exquisite, sad, funny, tender and timeless. The Pollen Path follows a beautiful piano prodigy and her two best friends during an unforgettable year on a doomed but picturesque estate. In the middle grade novel, In The Garden Of Goodwill, a tale of whimsy ensues when a little girl wishes to meet the mysterious Father Nature.

Forthcoming is a novel of magical realism, The Theory of Fairies.

Adriana credits her love of books to her mother who read to her and took her weekly to the Brooklyn Public Library when she was a child.