historical fiction

They were called drummer boys - the first to rouse the troops in the morning, the last to sound retreat in battle. Willie Johnston, a skinny boy from Vermont, was too young to enlist in the Union forces - he never should have taken part in the Civil War at all...

After a visit to her family in Louisville, young Mercy Randolph returns to her new home in Sweetriver, Kansas, and suddenly finds herself in the midst of dangers moving as fast as a tornado. Meanwhile, Jeremiah must learn to deal with his new faith and his new love - while risking everything he has to save his reckless nephew from the evil plans of the Medicine Bow Gang.

Selene, having grown up in a palace with her parents, Cleopatra and Mark Antony, is forced by war to build a new life in the household of Roman emperor Octavianus, where she finds herself torn between two young men and two possible destinies.

Abel, a young American Indian home from a foreign war, finds himself torn between his father's world on the reservation and the lure of industrial America.

Rosemary Fell's life takes a dramatic turn when Eleanor Smith, a penniless woman Rosemary invites into her home for tea, becomes romantically involved with Rosemary's fiance, Philip Alsop.

In 1665, London is being ravaged by the plague, and the King's Company has been sent to Oxford--but Beth Johnson, actress and spy, is summoned back to London to deal with another assassination plot against the King.

It is 1664 and young Beth Johnson is an actress and a spy in training--so when she uncovers a plot to kill King Charles II she must find a way to alert her spymaster and prevent the assassination to prove herself.

When Mark Twain and Sir Henry Morton Stanley meet as journalist in the American West, the two connect over their passion for writing and shared contempt for slavery. From searching for Stanley's adoptive father in Cuba to consulting with mediums after the death of Twain's daughter, their friendship enriches and enlivens two historical icons.

In 1886, when the son of respected New York architect John Cross finds himself deeply in debt to a notorious gang that rules the underworld of the city, his father must help the gang pull off a robbery with his intimate knowledge of the city's mansions and museums. But as Cross's skills become more valuable to the gang, his life hangs in a delicate balance.

A beautiful embroidered scarf connects two women across generations. Clara Wood mourns the man she loved who died in the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in Manhattan. In 2011, widow Taryn Michaels is raising her daughter alone when a photograph in a magazine recalls her husband's death in the World Trade Towers. The scarf reaches across the years to show both women forces at work in their lives.