Novels
The Reckless Oath We Made
Zee is nobody’s fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead’s temper and a shattered hip, she has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her five-year-old nephew, her housebound mother, and her drug-dealing boss.
Zee may not be a princess, but Gentry is an actual knight, complete with sword, armor, and code of honor. Two years ago the voices he hears called him to be Zee’s champion. Both shy and autistic, he’s barely spoken to her since, but he has kept watch, ready to come to her aid.
When an abduction tears Zee’s family apart, she turns to the last person she ever imagined–Gentry–and sets in motion a chain of events that will not only change both of their lives, but bind them to one another forever.
All The Ugly And The Wonderful Things
As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It’s safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father’s thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.
By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy’s family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. Kellen may not be innocent, but he is the fixed point in Wavy and Donal’s chaotic universe. Instead of playing it safe, Wavy has to learn to fight for Kellen, for her brother, and for herself.
Lie Lay Lain
Jennifer has a great job and a go-getter fiancé. She’s on track for success, until she witnesses a fatal hit-and-run. Mistaking Jennifer for someone else, the dying victim extracts an impossible promise. Jennifer’s fiancé wants her to forget the whole incident, but when she closes her eyes, she can still see the bloody face of the woman who asked for her help.
Olivia is in a rut. Burdened with caring for her brain-damaged brother and already feeling like a spinster at 27, she’s desperate to escape. In a moment of weakness, she tells a lie that draws an unsuspecting paramedic into her life. As she struggles to expiate the lie, a horrible act of violence will test her resolve to be honest. Where Jennifer’s promise and Olivia’s lie intersect, their lives begin to unravel.
Truth. Lies. Sex. Church.The importance of a good manicure.
Last Will
Bernie Raleigh is a failure at nearly everything he touches. Nobody notices a loser, and after being kidnapped for ransom as a child, Bernie has spent his adult life trying to avoid being noticed. That’s impossible now that he’s inherited his grandfather’s enormous fortune. The inheritance comes complete with a mansion, a lot of obligations, and a very problematic housekeeper named Meda Amos. Beauty queen, alien abductee, crypto-Jew, single mother–Meda is all those things, and she may be the only person who can help Bernie survive his new and very public life.
Learning to live with what you inherit from your family.
Voices from Readers and Critics
~ Kansas City Star, praise for All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“Throughout the book, Greenwood challenges the ways we glorify tragedy by patronizing those who experience it and insisting on their victimhood before personhood. The result is a challenging, brain-addling novel, one that shocks us less with its content than its intimacy.”
~ Publishers Weekly, praise for The Reckless Oath We Made
“Greenwood is an exquisite storyteller, using multiple narratives to effortlessly bring to life characters that are complex, flawed, generous, and utterly human, and Gentry and Zee’s tender, unusual romance is drawn in sweetly delicate strokes. Readers will be enchanted by this compassionate, winning novel.”
~Magic City Books, Tulsa, OK, praise for The Reckless Oath We Made
“Bryn Greenwood tackles very real day-to-day issues that plague the American heartland—including drug use, poverty, prison reform, obesity, racism, and family dysfunction all while she fashions a modern-day fairy tale like no one else could. A skewed love story that locates romance in the everyday and the eccentric, and finds hope in the unlikely intersection of unusual, if ordinary, lives.”
~ Publishers Weekly, praise for All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“A memorable coming-of-age tale about loyalty, defiance, and the power of love under the most improbable circumstances.”
~Kirkus Reviews (STARRED), praise for All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“Greenwood’s powerful, provocative debut chronicles a desolate childhood and a discomfiting love affair… It’s no storybook romance, but the novel closes on a note of hard-won serenity, with people who deserve a second chance gathered together….Intelligent, honest, and unsentimental.”
~ Heather Sharfeddin, author of Blackbelly, Windless Summer, and Damaged Goods
“Last Will is a richly detailed story about finding love in a world that can scarcely offer the real thing. Bryn Greenwood’s characters reveal their layer-by-layer complexity with each turning page. Their stories are heartbreaking, but never let go of dignity or beg for pity. Told without sentimentality, Last Will is an exceptional story overflowing with compassion.”
Where To Purchase
Where To Purchase Signed Copies
My local independent bookstore, The Raven, has signed copies of all my novels available, which they will ship all over the United States. Additionally, with a little lead time, they can provide personalized, signed copies.
You can order signed copies here, or if you’re interested in a personalized copy, you can reach them via email or by phone at 785-749-3300.
