Violet's Mountain

by H.D. Knightley

Violet’s Mountain tells the story of Violet, a mysterious young woman who lives atop a giant mountain of hoarded things. By day she is a heavy machine operator, piling more things up and up and up. By night she adorns the top of the pile with welded steel, sculptural whirligigs.


She builds, she creates, she welds, she lifts heavy boxes, she drives cranes, she’s a total bad ass.


But in the story you barely get to know her, before everything shifts.


Instead you get to know Lala, her cousin. Violet has been her guardian, but as Lala puts it, “I can’t leave her, she’s so arty that she forgets to eat.”


You meet Benjamin, the young man who falls in love, and wants to charm Violet down from the hoard, and take her away to the city.


And you meet Edmund, the surfing environmentalist, heir to an oil fortune, who wants to rescue her and doesn’t know how. He rocks her world.


The story is about love, duty, and rescue. Love in spite of our shortcomings. Duty to family over all else. And rescue in spite of ourselves. And whether, when your world comes crashing down, you can find forgiveness for the one who caused your collapse.

315 pages, Paperback

First published November 8, 2015

About the author

H.D. Knightley loves weaving tales about characters who are in way over their head. People faced with huge environmental issues—light-polluted skies, droughts, piles of hoarded things, encroaching water—that rise above and carry on anyway.

She likes a story in which everything is a disaster, yet they kiss in the end, so it's all good.

Her characters are not perfectly strong, more like creatively ordinary, yet capable of amazing things.

They include Estelle (The Estelle Series) who becomes a celebrity dissident for starting a farm; the Princess Amelia (Fly: The Light Princess Retold) who discovers gravity and rescues her kingdom from a drought; Edmund who scales heights to rescue Violet (Violet's Mountain); and the paddleboarder Luna (the upcoming Leveling) who finds love, shelter, and possible disaster, at the edge of a rising ocean.

H.D.Knightley lives in Los Angeles in real life and online at http://www.hdknightley.com

Reviews

[Dianna Schmidt · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful read. It is calming and peaceful with a well earned HEA after Edmund and Violet nature enough to realize that they needed what happened

This is an early book by Diana Knightly of the Kaitlyn and the Highlander series.

[D. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed Violet's Mountain. It is really unique and kept my interest. I loved the twists and turns and the surprise ending. Well done H. D.!

[Carlla · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting book. I keep thinking that no one talks that way or thinks the way they did. I am not sure if it was the words or the way the narrator read them.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

HD Knightly's newest book is a delight. It is a wonderful story of friendship, love, companionship, acceptance, and forgiveness, to name just a few things. HD Knightly can draw amazing pictures with her writing, so you can imagine what she is seeing. I loved seeing how the characters changed and grew (or didn't). It was a sweet book that I know I will look forward to reading again.

[Fiona Dowdee · Rating 5 out of 5]

i loved this book. from the girl living on a mountain of trash to the surfer boy who loves her. i laughed and cried. i highly recommend it!