Essex, England, 1645. With a heavy heart, Alice Hopkins returns to the small town she grew up in. Widowed, with child, and without prospects, she is forced to find refuge at the house of her younger brother, Matthew. In the five years she has been gone, the boy she knew has become a man of … Read more
The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with a difference. Set throughout the roaring twenties, it is a wicked fairytale of circus tricks and child prodigies, radical chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians and brooding clowns, set in an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. It is the tale of two dreamers, abandoned … Read more
In this multiple award winning historical mystery, readers find themselves immersed in 1929 Las Vegas, New Mexico. When a man is murdered at the Castaneda Hotel, Josie MacFarland is given an impossible role: the first Harvey House Detective. Armed with only her determination, Josie faces a dismissive sheriff, the cold shoulder of old friends, and … Read more
Following graduation from Wellesley, an inquisitive but skeptical Gemma Danforth spends the year in Nice where, as a consequence of exposures to the broadening world view of the early Modernists, she gradually sheds her skepticism and replaces it with maturity’s hardened resolve. Her months in France lead to encounters with the literary and artistic luminaries … Read more
They called her a poisoner. A manipulator. A queen cloaked in darkness. But they were afraid of what they didn’t understand—her power. This is the story history refused to tell. Channeled from the spirit of Catherine de Medici herself, this novel uncovers the spiritual truths, heartbreak, and divine strength of one of history’s most misunderstood … Read more
In 1878 Anthony Augustus Peters was not only skilled in using a gun, he was a rising star in New York City as a very popular Shakespearean actor. However, he had a death wish. And he would die nobly by defending people against violent outlaws populating the booming towns out West where he was taking … Read more
In the Middle ages, the road that led from slavery to freedom did not exist. A soldier who was captured in war, a family who was taken in conquest and a child who was born in slavery would always and only be a slave, unless a monarch chose to make a royal declaration and set … Read more