Kristen Den Hartog: 5 books

The Occupied Garden is the powerful true story of a market gardener and his fiercely devout wife who were living a simple life in Holland when the Nazis invaded in 1940. During the subsequent occupation, Gerrit and Cor den Hartog struggled to keep their young family from starving and from being broken...

The seedy underbelly of small-town life is exposed in 'Water Wings', Kristen den Hartogs exuberant first novel, but beauty grows out of the decay and dark secrets. Beautiful, vampish Darlene is getting married again, to shoe-store Reg, a man tied to the family in ways few of them realize. Darlenes grown...

Reminiscent of the Brothers Grimms darkly magical tales, 'The Perpetual Ending' tells an enchanting story about devoted sisters and their world of opposites, doppelgangers and ghosts. Jane and Eugenie Ingrams are mirror-image twins, two halves of a whole, each understanding her world through the other....

“Something good can come from even the most terrifying things. For eve y thing that is taken away, something else is given.” Ruth Brennan is a giant, “a rare, organic blunder pressed into a dollhouse world,” as she calls herself. Growing up in a small town, where even an ordinary person...

Origin of Haloes' is the story of two families connected by an illicit affair and a lie that has dire consequences. When aspiring gymnast Kay Clancy finds herself pregnant at sixteen, she marries her high school sweetheart, Joe LeBlanc, admitting to him hes not the babys father, but lying about who is....