Mary L. Newton
So Wild a Dream
In 1822, Sam Morgan is growing up in the mountains near Pittsburgh, with itchy feet and a hungry spirit. At…
The Honourable Earl
Set in 1763, this is the romance of Lydia Fostyn and the Earl of Blackwater. Lydia is being pressured into…
Jane and the Ghosts of Netley
Seventh in Barron’s series of historical suspense novels featuring Jane Austen as an amateur sleuth, this is a well-crafted melding…
The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
This novel covers the great gap in the Holmes canon, between the time Holmes was supposedly killed at Reichenbach Falls…
The Welcoming Door
The Welcoming Door is an imaginative story of what could have been the basis for three of Jesus’ parables from…
Tuxedo Park
Conant’s first book is a vividly written biography of Alfred Loomis, Wall Street mogul in the 1920s and brilliant amateur…
The Elk-Dog Heritage
The third novel written by Coldsmith in his Spanish Bit Saga narrates an episode of the Elk-Dog…
The Adventures of Miles and Isabel
The title characters of Tom Gilling’s short novel are born on the same date in 1856 Sydney, Australia. Miles is…
Educating Waverley
Nona York, prolific elderly romance author, hires Rebecca Devere as a temporary assistant. Becky has just moved to Isadora Island…
Eclipse
Eclipse is a fictionalized account of the lives of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark after their return from the first…
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