Valley High, Mountain Low

A top tech exec bolts from her life-leaving behind her narcissistic tech-bro husband and the illusion of control she built in Silicon Valley.

But when Mariella returns to her childhood home in Colorado to regroup, she finds a world unraveling. Her mother is off storming the Capitol in full QAnon regalia, and her nieces are disappearing into the quiet damage of social media and self-erasure.

The algorithms Mariella once helped push are no longer abstract. They're personal.

"We thought we were connecting the world...But we forgot to connect families at the dinner table."

As truth blurs into belief and the people she loves slip farther out of reach, Mariella is forced to confront everything she spent her lifetime avoiding: grief, family, belonging, and the cost of staying silent.

Because when everything falls apart, you don't just rebuild. You decide who you become.

Darkly funny and deeply human, Valley High, Mountain Low is Ann Crawford's boldest novel yet. This intimate, timely story of love and loss reveals what it takes to find your way back to yourself.

What rises when you let it all crash?

For readers of thoughtful women's fiction, family drama, and stories that ask hard questions with compassion.