Brenda Ray was born in Bremerton, Washington, and spent her early school years between Bremerton and a one-room schoolhouse near Lake Ozette. She attended high school in Clallam Bay before graduating from Port Angeles Senior High. After living in several places—including five years in Oklahoma City—she eventually settled in Seattle. Her follow-up memoir, Hideaway II, …

Hideaway: A Memoir, Book 1 recounts Brenda Ray’s unforgettable childhood on Washington’s remote Lake Ozette in the mid-1950s. After her parents’ marriage ends, Brenda’s mother relocates her four children from Bremerton to a tiny, rundown shack in the wilderness—an off-the-grid life that demands resilience, teamwork, and ingenuity. As the family rebuilds the shack into their …

Journey into the 1950s wilderness as a mother and her four children rebuild life in a tiny shack on Lake Ozette. A vivid, inspiring true story of survival and love. ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9798369444993ISBN 13 (HARD): 9798369444986ISBN 13 (eBook): 9798369445006