Category: Historical Romance

Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel

“She possesses an uncommon union of symmetry, brilliancy, and grace. One is apt to expect that an impudent address will naturally attend an impudent mind – but her countenance is absolutely sweet. I am sorry it is so, for what is this but deceit?“ (from Jane Austen’s Lady Susan) Sixteen-year-old Susan Smithson – pretty but poor, clever but capricious – has just been expelled from a school for young ladies in London. At the mansion of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she attr... [Read More...]

All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany

The year is 1896, and Elisabeth (‘Lisi’) von Schwabacher, the gifted daughter of a Jewish banker, returns home to Berlin from piano study in Vienna. Though her thoughts are far from matrimony, she is pursued by two noblemen impressed as much by her stunning wealth as by her prodigious intellect and musical talent. Awakened to sudden improvements in the opportunities open to women, Lisi balks at her mother’s expectation that she will contract a suitable bourgeois marriage, and ... [Read More...]

The Lady in the Veil

What secrets hide beneath the veil? When her mother departs for a tour of the continent, Georgina is sent from the rural backwaters to stay with her cousin, George Talbot, in London. The 1835 season is at its height, but Georgina is determined to attend neither balls nor plays, and to eschew Society. She hides her face beneath an impenetrable veil. Her extraordinary appearance only sets off gossip and speculation as to her identity. Who is the mysterious lady beneath the veil? The Lady in the ... [Read More...]

Free: Jalopy

New Jersey, 1928. All her life, Etta Wozniak has toiled on her family’s small farm. Life has fallen into a rut of drudgery and predictability. That is, until the day she discovers something in an unlikely place; an old car. Art Adams, a recent college man, is to marry a woman he has never met before. Though reluctant to confront the matter, if he decides to do nothing, he will lose who and what he has come to love. ... [Read More...]

Rose Cottage: Shimla, 1802

A fictional historical romance, recounting the tale of a young woman from London named Emerald Dawson who journeys to India for the first time. After a brief stay in Bombay, she relocates to the titular cottage in Shimla. She then quickly settles into a routine and makes numerous friends and acquaintances. However, things are soon rendered far more complicated once she meets the Maharaja, with whom she quickly falls in love. She thus unexpectedly finds herself navigating an entirely different w... [Read More...]