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Widowed Countess Eseld Trehearne seeks revenge for the brutal death of her female companion during a Paris riot. On her return to England, Eseld delves into espionage to defeat the French rebels. Baron Robert Penhale, Eseld's childhood love, rejoins the Secret Services after his wife's death. He's determined to protect England from the revolution terrorizing France. A ruthless French spy fights for the common man while disguised as an English aristocrat. He's intent on revenge against those who oppose him. With the spy stalking them and Robert in fear for Eseld's life, the fate of the couple verges on disaster.
Tamara Ledbetter, dumped by her arrogant husband, travels to Cornwall, England, to research her ancestors. A trip first planned with her soon-to-be ex. While in a neglected cemetery, she scrapes two fallen headstones together to read what's beneath, faints, and awakes in 1789. Certain she's caught in a reenactment, she fast discovers she's in the year of the French Revolution, grain riots in England, miners out of work, and she's mistrusted by the young farmer, Colum Polwhele, who's come to her aid. Can a sassy San Francisco gal survive in this primitive time where women have few rights? Could she fall for Colum, a man active in underhanded dealings that involve stolen grain, or will she struggle to return to her own time before danger stalks them both?
Twenty-four established and emerging writers from the Rappahannock region share their vision through stories and poems of nature, love, life and spirit, plus quirky takes on the world around us.
Paris, 1663. King Louis XIV sanctions a program to send destitute women to Quebec to settle his new colony. They are called, "Daughters of the King." Jeanne Denot is one of them. Of noble birth, she assumes a false identity and boards a ship to Canada, narrowly escaping death at the hands of those closest to her. But when Jeanne encounters a mysterious stranger onboard, the course of her life is altered forever. After braving turbulent seas and hardship in the New World, she decides to risk everything to reclaim what is rightfully hers.
When Amalie Ansett visits her elderly cousin on the Caribbean island of St. Clements, the last thing she's looking for is romance. Just out of a disastrous marriage, she's ready to swear off romance forever. That is until she meets local plantation owner Jonathan Evans—tall, good-looking, and incredibly sexy. What more could a girl ask for? Then Amalie discovers the man she loves is a ghost. He was murdered two hundred years ago. Only she can see and hear him. To save Jonathan, Amalie agrees to return with him to the 1800's—to a time when the sugar trade reigned supreme, and the slave trade was making fortunes for wealthy planters and ship owners. During a slave uprising their love is put to a test, and when murder and deceit rear their ugly heads, Amalie wonders if taking a journey to the past is worth losing her life.
She yearns to be loved, while he cannot pine for an emotion he has never known. Lucas Carter, Viscount Millington, only son of a centuries-old family, must marry soon. He wants nothing like his parents' unbearable relationship. Refreshingly candid and straightforward, Lady Emma Brenham has resigned herself to spinsterhood after attending three seasons in London without securing an offer. While wearing a mask of indifference, she secretly longs for an adoring husband and children of her own. A chance meeting and formal introduction in Brighton lead to shared moments of comradery, triggering heartfelt sensations and fervent attraction. However, a shadow is cast over the dawn of their relationship by a desperate man who has other plans for Lady Emma.
A body in a hospital isn’t so unusual. Unless they’ve been murdered! 1916, London: Keen to support the war effort, bookshop manager and sometime amateur sleuth Hannah Merrill has taken a volunteer role in the library of the nearby military hospital. But arriving at the hospital one cold winter’s morning, she is horrified to find the body of a dead soldier in the library. What’s more, a beautiful young nurse confides in Hannah that she thinks she’s being followed, and then she abruptly disappears. Hannah can’t shake the suspicion that the two cases are connected, but she can’t solve the case alone. She’ll once again need to call upon her delightful, demanding, only-occasionall...
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Elsie Nuefeld loves to sit on her porch and watch the children grow in the Mennonite community near Landmark, MB. Returning to the area after moving to Paraguay for a time, Elsie is happy to be living on the wild rose dotted prairie of south-eastern Manitoba. Her granddaughters are growing up and getting married, it's an exciting time. Secure in her long standing marriage to Ike, Elsie is content to observe the community from the sidelines and rejoice in the joys of the young ones. She often walks with her daughters and granddaughters through the graveyard abloom with wild roses and shares the stories of the ancestors sleeping there. It’s important, she feels, for the younger generation to feel connected to those who went before. Elsie hopes when she joins those resting beneath the Landmark roses the tradition of honouring the memory of the forebearers continues.
Emerging writers from the Fredericksburg area explore the human dimensions of social consciousness, emotion, and survival in this innovative collection of poems and short prose.