Love is worth the risk
Did you know… …that the California Supreme Court ruled in 1854 that an Asian person couldn’t testify against a white person in a criminal proceeding. Unfortunately, anti-Asian violence began almost as soon as single young men were recruited in great numbers in the 1850s to work in the California gold fields and, soon after, to […]
Just a quick message while I chug my coffee: I’m knee deep in writing and expecting overnight company all week. Did you see the updates I made to the Bookshelf last week? What did you think? I think I better get Book 2 of the Ashmead Heirs finished. I’m 2/3 there. I’m also researching the […]
I travel. Sometimes I travel by boat, plane, or automobile. Sometimes I travel by book. This week I rambled through Mayfair with Mary Lancaster from a modest home on Half Moon Street to a shabby past its prime house on Charles Street to the homes of the truly wealthy on Grosvener Square. As opulent […]
Highlighting the historical facts behind the fiction with Heather McCollum and her novel Highland Warrior. My new Scottish historical romance, Highland Warrior, takes place on 16th century Orkney Isle, just north of the Scottish mainland. Kára Flett is a widow and leader of her native people on Orkney who are descended from Norsemen. She and […]
When the old Earl of Clarion leaves a will with bequests for all his children, legitimate and not, listing each and their mothers by name, he complicated the lives of many in the village of Ashmead. One of them grew believing he was the innkeeper’s son. He is the first of The Ashmead Heirs. The […]