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Violet is Blue is Anne Shaw Heinrich’s second novel. Published by Speaking Volumes and released in June 2025, it is the second in a four-book series, The Women of Paradise County.

Violet Sellers is blue, and for good reason.

She’s holding a shocking secret she won’t tell anyone, especially her comfortably middle-class parents. When she befriends Jules Marks, who lives on the “other side of the tracks” with his five little sisters, she is introduced to a dark world of self-abuse.

As Violet grows closer to Jules, her parents, Gloria and Skip, are horrified and do their best to find out what happened to their daughter while bending over backward to keep the whole town from knowing their business.

Jules has an aunt and uncle in town who know his desperate circumstances, and are just waiting for the chance to free him and his sisters out of a loveless world of poverty. Meanwhile, a spinster named Margaret Burns watches and waits. She knows all about redemption and getting saved, and she’s got a plan up her sleeve.

Margaret and the other quirky characters in this story learn to dance between the worlds of the “haves” and the “have nots” in ways none of them ever anticipate in Anne Shaw Heinrich’s novel, Violet is Blue.

Book Three, House of Teeth, releases in June 2026. Paradise County is nestled in the heart of America’s Midwest, where the wounded create spaces and places for themselves that simmer just beneath the surface.