HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS
Stand alone
Lights, Camera, Murder!!! Released November 18, 2024
Movies, action, and excitement!!
Sisters Jean and Merle Cooper have limited time to change the direction of their lives. A scandal and police pursuit force them on the road to Hollywood California in 1913. Hollywood is bustling with people; movies are being made and Jean and Merle need jobs. Jean can’t help but wish that one particular policeman she left behind, Patrick Flannigan, was a part of their new lives.
Merle wants to support her sister and help her achieve her dream of being a stunt woman, but her life choices could affect both her and Jean’s burgeoning careers. Excitement follows the two sisters and reunites them with Patrick as secrets are uncovered. Lives could be changed with events involving sabotage and murder.
1897 A Mark Sutherland Adventure Released October 17, 2023
The year is 1897 and many things are going on! There's a mysterious crash landing of a craft in Texas that locals say came from outer space, oil discoveries in Oklahoma, and a chance of a lifetime to go for gold in the Yukon.
Reporter Mark Sutherland wants to go to the Yukon and witness the gold rush as it happens. He’s read all about the 1849 California gold rush and can't wait to experience the Yukon. He wouldn’t miss this one. But how will he get there?
There are other adventures that happen before he achieves his goal of heading to the Yukon. Working as a reporter who travels from place to place, he reports on the events of the day. As he travels Mark meets people that become important to him. Each person has their own reasons for going on the adventure that will lead them all to the Yukon.
Will there be gold for all? Will everyone end up happy with the outcome?
Divided Lives Released October 2022
Mystery, blackmail, love, and crime. Lottie tries to figure out who to trust as she navigates through the trial of a lifetime.
New York City (1912) is a city divided: Greenwich Village where rejected tradition is regularly flouted, and Manhattan where it is strictly upheld. Lottie Flannigan successfully balances both sides. While embracing a bohemian lifestyle, she maintains a legal career clerking for conservative Justice Goff in Midtown. Committed and dedicated, Lottie begins work on a high-profile criminal case involving local Police Officer Charles Becker.
Suddenly her professional and personal lives collide as she finds herself caught in a blackmail scheme that seeks to disclose her most intimate choices if she doesn't do as they say.
In a fascinating look into a scandalous turn-of-the-century trial and ever-changing Greenwich Village social norms, the book puts Lottie in the middle of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker's Conspiracy trial.