18th Century
Sally Hemings
I am old enough to remember the furor this book caused when it first came out in 1979, presenting in…
The Tory Widow
The widow Anne Merrick, virtually sold into marriage with a much older man, runs a print shop and coffee house…
Love’s First Light
In 1789, during the opening weeks of the French Revolution, Christophé St. Laurent’s entire family is guillotined at the behest…
Surrender the Wind
Revolutionary War veteran Seth Braxton loses his father in America and his grandfather in England, thus inheriting estates in both…
Wind of the Spirit
In book three of the American Patriot series, Elizabeth Howard continues posing as a Tory by day, and transforming into…
The Tide of War
1794. There is a French frigate causing trouble in the Caribbean. The British have a frigate there too, but she…
Duchess by Night
Harriet, the Duchess of Berrow, has led a life of quiet rural seclusion since the suicide of her husband, Benjamin,…
Constable in Love, Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter
When John Constable, a struggling young painter, fell in love with Maria Bicknell, daughter of a prominent London lawyer, it…
Sovay
1794. England. The government is in the grip of paranoia about the effects of the French Revolution on Britain’s political…
Hannah Pritchard, Pirate of the Revolution
Hannah Pritchard, a young teenaged New York farm girl, returns to her home after a carefree day of berry gathering…
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