Christine Carroll writes children’s books and is also the author of a novel, Two Pennies Overboard, set on Nantucket Island. Her newest children’s title, Princess Ava’s Nantucket Adventures: Christmas Stroll was released in 2015. The Winter Night That Changed the World, a book for young children about Washington’s famous crossing of the Delaware in 1776, was released in 2016. The Carroll Family has owned a home on Nantucket for the past 29 years.