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Escape to Oregon’s Pioneer Days
Review of All She Left Behind, set in Oregon just after it became a state, and update on progress of my upcoming book, Lucia’s Journey.
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I’m excited to share exciting news, including my review of The Mercy Seller, the favorite novel I’ve read in 2024!
Read a Terrific Book or Two!
My review of The Orphan Collector, a novel focused on the 1918 Influenza epidemic that I could hardly put it down, + an invitation to be an advance reader for my new novel.
Exploring Ancestry and Early America Through ‘Caleb’s Crossing’ + an Invitation
Review of Caleb’s Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks, and an invitation to a tour and retreat in Venice
In the Shadows of Royalty: Labor of Love in the Medici Court
Do you think a recent novel entitled, Labor of Love, is: Related to a Shakespeare play The story of a pregnant woman’s experience giving birth Something entirely different In the case of Marguerite Martin Gray’s recent novel, answer #3 is correct. Without...
Fight, Flight, or Hide: the Huguenots’ Choice
Review and author interview about Find Me in the Stars, an adventure- and suspense-filled story of 17th-century Huguenots (French Protestants) driven into hiding or away from their remote homeland, the Cévennes region [once called Languedoc, now (since 2016) Occitànie] by religious persecution.
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Verona, 1571.
When Caterina welcomes her husband’s brilliant student, Alessandro, into their home, she has no idea how he will heighten the danger her family faces as the Inquisition closes in.
Immerse yourself in rich historical detail and high emotional stakes in this dramatic story of danger and conscience!