historical fiction

Quaker brother and sister, Ann and Jesse Redfield, share a hatred of slavery. Jesse soon gets involved in the Underground Railroad and Ann asks no questions as she joins him in this work. When Jesse returns from a run, both he and the fugitive slave, Josiah, are ill with fever. Unable to travel, Josiah stays the winter at Redfield Farm where Ann becomes his nurse, teacher, friend, and confidant. Soon a disappointment in Ann's own life makes her turn to Josiah for comfort and their friendship soon blossoms into something more.

Sixteen-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa, Russia to South Dakota as a Jewish mail-order bride. She wishes for a young, wealthy husband, her own house, freedom from physical labor, and privacy. But she is granted none of these as her husband is twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a hut with two teenage sons. Most troubling of all, Minna soon finds herself increasingly attracted to her older stepson and as a brutal winter closes in, she is forced to confront her despair as well as her desire.

Nefertiti escapes the palace and the consequences of a false charge with two of her friends, but while she takes refuge in the hills along the west bank of the Nile, Nefertiti's desires to prove her innocence in front of the Pharaoh are shadowed by questions about long-held, sacred beliefs.

Princess Selene, Cleopatra's daughter, survived a perilous childhood as a Roman captive after her mother's death. Pledging her loyalty to Augustus Caesar, she is forced to marry a man of the Emperor's choosing. The magic of Isis makes her indispensible to the emperor and against a backdrop of imperial politics and religious persecution she makes her way to the very precipice of power.

With her parents both dead, Princess Selene of Egypt, the daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, is left at the mercy of her Roman captors after the fall of Alexandria.

In Victorian London, impoverished fifteen-year-old orphan Grace takes care of her older but mentally unfit sister Lily, and after enduring many harsh and painful experiences, the two become the victims of a fraud perpetrated by the wealthy owners of several funeral businesses.

In 1928 in Massena, New York, Jewish sixteen-year-old Jack Pool, in love with his Christian neighbor, is accused of killling her little sister for a blood sacrifice.

Kathleen Byrne, disguised as a boy, leaves Ireland for Canada on a "coffin ship" in hopes of reuniting with her family, but the hardships of the voyage are only the beginning, as she faces poverty, prejudice, and an old enemy in a new country.

Set against the backdrop of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Katherine cannot forgive herself when her beloved twin sister dies, and she feels that her only course of action is to follow suit.

Ayla and Jondalar, while living in prehistoric Europe, struggle to continue their lives among Jondalar's people, the Zelandonii, as Ayla becomes more aware of her growing powers as a Shaman. Her connection with the cave drawings in present-day France profoundly alters her life.