That Summer in Cornwall
A different latitude…a different world… Meredith Champlin unexpectedly finds herself the legal guardian of a child she’s never met: Janet Barton Stowe, an unruly eleven-year-old “Beverly Hills brat,” whose mother – Meredith’s cousin-- has died in a private plane crash. At the urging of the child’s Anglo-American aunt, Lady Blythe Barton-Teague, Meredith and her Welsh Corgi decamp from Wyoming to spend the summer at Barton Hall, a shabby-chic castle perched on the remote cliffs of Cornwall, England. Taming the wild child proves a handful, but Meredith’s summer escape gets even more complicated when former British Army Lieutenant Sebastian Pryce, veteran of a bomb-sniffing ...
Island of the Swans
An award-winning, bestselling biographical novel based on the life of the flamboyant political figure, Jane Maxwell, the 4th Duchess of Gordon (1749-1812)—one of the most influential women of her time. A patroness of the poet Robert Burns, advisor to King George III, friend to Queen Charlotte, she was the mastermind behind her husband’s political success, and a rival of the equally flamboyant Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Rich in historical detail, passion and intrigue, the novel brings to life one of the most celebrated beauties of her day whose tempestuous marriage after she thought her childhood sweetheart was killed created a ...
A Cottage by the Sea
A sweeping, romantic tale of modern day Britain colliding with the bawdy, eighteenth century world of a bold English heiress whose love story has echoed down through time. To Blythe Barton Stowe, a cunning cottage on the wild coast of Cornwall in the land of her forebears sounded like the perfect escape from the pain and humiliation of events in far off Hollywood that had ended her marriage, her career, and all but destroyed her self-esteem. But soon she seems to be reliving a centuries-old tragedy that once beset her namesake ancestress. Her landlord, the handsome owner of the shabby ...
Wicked Company
Based on the lives of 'lost' women playwrights seeking fame and glory at the rival theatres Covent Garden and Drury Lane in the period 1761-1779, bookseller's daughter Sophie McGann forsakes her native Scotland --hidden in James Boswell's traveling trunk--to pursue her dream of being a playwright at Old Drury. But the reality of London is hasher than Sophie could have imagined, leaving her with her work stolen, her profits withheld, and the chances of a “petticoat playwright” getting past the government censor slim. Sophie’s friend and would-be lover Hunter Robertson is himself building a name as an actor and singer at Covent Garden, a ...
A Race to Splendor
Set in the tumultuous aftermath of San Francisco’s devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, and based on the lives of several women apprenticed to famed Julia Morgan, California’s first licensed woman architect, this historical novel tells of the fiercely-fought competition between Nob Hill hotels to re-open their doors by the first anniversary of the disaster--proving to the country and the world that the city would rise from the ashes. Amelia Hunter Bradshaw, fresh from earning her certificate in architecture at the prestigious L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, finds herself, through a series of flukes and mishaps, in the employ of ...
Midnight on Julia Street
This “stand-alone” prequel to A Light on the Veranda is a romantic novel of intrigue and suspense set in modern-day New Orleans with echoes of nineteenth century Louisiana, when Cotton was King. Corlis McCullough, a take-no-prisoners TV journalist, late of Los Angeles, and her former UCLA nemesis, King Duvallon, an historic preservationist with deep roots in the Crescent City, are an unlikely pair to join forces to save a beautiful Greek Revival building with origins linked mysteriously to those of their own ancestors during the Golden Age in the Big Easy Both must grapple with the unlikely concept of “genetic ...
A Light on the Veranda
A “stand-alone” sequel to Midnight on Julia Street, this novel tells the story of Daphne Duvallon, a wayward southern belle and Juilliard-trained harpist, who returns to Natchez, Mississippi from New York’s cut-throat classical music world, weary from professional battles and personal despair. Still wounded from the uproar that ricocheted through her family when she ditched Jack Ebert, her philandering groom, literally at the altar, she has an unexpected rendezvous with her future when she meets Simon Hopkins, a nationally-renown nature photographer with a dark secret of his own. Reinventing her life as a jazz musician while sorting through a series ...
