Carmen Hogan is in a bit of a mess. Despite being thirty, she still lives in her sister’s basement, and her year-long romance with Oke, a snake-loving boyfriend from Brazil, has barely moved along after a year of them going out from a Read more...
Women have often found strength and encouragement from each other and their own inner strength of resolve. Seeking escape from marital issues with her husband Parker, Jessica Coleman decides to take a break in Chatham, Massachusetts. Inviting her college-aged daughter along, they soon settle Read more...
Russian President Piotr Zhdanov’s personal travel transport has just arrived at a secret Russian Bomber base with the latest available bombers and training planes. He is Read more...
Despite the end of the Great War, life was still very difficult in 1922 for people and especially Jewish people in Poland (which is now Russia). Good food, or any food at all, is rare and life in America seems like a luxurious dream. With Read more...
He is back! Cate Ainsworth knew that her old flame is back on the island after years of being away, yet no matter how she plans to react, nothing has prepared her for how her heart would respond.Read more...
In Saddlestring, Wyoming, in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, Game Warden Joe Pickett is dressing warmly for winter storm weather. A severe weather event is on its way and although tired, Joe now has to go look for an injured elk cow that has been Read more...
The Earl of Stanford, Oliver (Ollie) Aspinwall, now striving to restore both his reputation marred by previous overuse of alcohol and opium, as well as his historic estate Read more...
Nadine Finley is on a very special mission and has time traveled to the village of Hythe to ensure that two people do not meet and fall in love again. England is still at war with France in 1811 and the villagers and the coast guardsmen are nervous Read more...
A war, the threat of war, and the danger and carnage of war impact everyone in many ways, both large and surprising from the cities bombed to small towns in Maine oceans away. Newly married, Avis is not a book lover and prefers to read women’s magazines Read more...
Returning to her new and larger office in Bozeman, Montana from a successful surveillance, Private Investigator Cassie Dowell is perplexed as she notices the light is on, despite it being after hours. She resists calling the police, despite having been a former law enforcement investigator herself, as she has Read more...
On a dark night in 1914, elite German commandos land from a submarine run by Captain Reinhart in the jungle in French Guiana. They are raiding a heavily guarded French island prison to free a special inmate named Hessmann. But due to circumstances, they also end up saving a Read more...
From his early days as an orphan and a mudlark on the Thames riverbanks of London’s Thames, scrounging a bare living from selling trash for food, twenty-two-year-old Will Monk, still known as Scruff, has gone up in the world, but still is close to Read more...
What a welcome to a new community! Returning stateside after working in southern British Columbia, wildlife biologist Alex Carter arrives in the town of Bellamy Falls in the state of Washington and is happy to meet up with Ben Hathaway, the coordinator for the Land Trust Conservation Association Read more...
What a welcome to a new community! Returning stateside after working in southern British Columbia, wildlife biologist Alex Carter arrives in The Town of Bellamy Falls in the state of Washington and is happy to meet up with Ben Hathaway, the coordinator for the Land Trust Conservation Association Read more...
As too often the case in Regency England, the Primogeniture right in their late father’s will has left his sick wife and five daughters with little income to support themselves. Despite calculating every way and rechecking, 26-year-old Sarah Summers, the oldest daughter, finally had to Read more...
While the fishing trawler El Valiente under Captain Calvera may look like it is a typical beaten-up fishing trawler, its actions when and the equipment they have when hailed makes Captain Juan Cabrillo of the Oregon, (now disguised as the Sungu Barat Read more...
True confessions! I am an avid fan of Ann Cleeves’ books right from my first Cleeves read of SILENT VOICES (Book 3). Since discovering this amazing author and Vera, I have read the lot of them from Vera first Read more...
Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire just can’t seem to wrap his head around what has just happened. He hasn’t a clue as to how he got hit by a snowplough, why he is covered in blood, or why he is carrying a well Read more...
As Amish farmer Doyle Schlabach of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania relaxes into the rhythm of plowing his recently purchased field, he is startled by the sudden clanking of his sickle bar on a hard surface. He starts to worry that this new field may have too many unexpected rocks making Read more...
What a shock! Worse than a cold shower! After spending all her time pushing herself both mentally and physically, Kathleen Carre finally feels prepared to earn a coveted placement in the first coed class in 1976 at the United States Naval Academy. Her life goal is to Read more...
Audrey Lawrence
Ever since I taught myself to read at
age two, I have been an avid reader
and
collector of books. I am seldom
without a book in my hand, stacks by
my
bedside and more waiting on my Kindle,
so I am very happy to be a book
reviewer for FreshFiction and have
been
so since the last century. How can you
tell I love historical fiction? Other
book genres I love are regency
romances, suspense thrillers,
contemporary fiction, more romance
books and anything I can get my hands
on! Having a background in education
and organizational development, I also
love to read kids’ books and YA and
books on business.
I currently live in the National
Capital Region of Canada (aka Ottawa)
where Tinkerbelle, my beautiful
Siamese
cat, rules the roost and reminds us
every day of her regal heritage,
especially when she wants treats! As
the saying goes: dogs may have owners,
but cats have staff!
Great comments and questions! I have just started in on INTO THE WHIRLWIND but only complaint is that I do not want to put it down ... how am I going to get all my errands done when I need to know what happens next?
That is just so grand that you are naming characters in your book with your ancestors' names. I love it when I know the special meaning behind the names. I look forward to reading it.
I found out from family lore that my mother's family comes from a former shield bearer to a 12th century Irish king but I think that has been the last irish connection as the rest is all Scottish. Thank goodness everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day!
That is so Purr-fect of Avon to make a donation! I can appreciate your lemma (slightly less critical than a dilemma) as to what to do! It is up to you but remember a cookie in each hand is a balanced diet!
All teh best with your new book and Avon's kindness!
Oh, as you can see from all these comments that not only do you write incredibly well but you also spin your readers so convincingly to the period of your tale that they feelas if they are there as well!
I have to admit, I love your books, but I had to stop reading them on the bus as I would get so engrossed in the story that I would miss my stop and have to walk home more than I expected. I quite look forward to reading your newest one!
Oh, a hero to fall into sweet dreams with! Sounds wonderful and I especailly like that he is willing to apologize. It takes a strong person to acknowledge that a situation may need an apology. True heros think about the needs of others before themsleves!