Massachusetts 1775-1816
Set in post-Revolutionary War New England, the American Homespun series takes you inside of the hearts and homes of those forging the New America. Follow Lucy Simms Marden, Samuel Wilson, their families, and friends through the trials and triumphs of living their daily lives and finding extraordinary love.
Lucy dreamed of marrying Samuel until she woke up as his wife.
Dismissed after a disastrous year at the newly created Harvard Medical School, Samuel buries his dreams of the future. Shamed by his dismissal, he returns to his north shore home, where he avoids his lifelong friend Lucy dismissing all ideas of marrying her.
Lucy pretends Samuel’s rejection means little as she helps her family on their farm until an early New England blizzard brings challenges and death to her door. When it is over, Lucy lays in her cabin near death with only five-year-old Sally to aid her. Samuel discovers Lucy delirious with fever and endeavors to save her. Unwittingly, he puts her reputation in danger. At his parents’ insistence, Samuel is forced to marry a barely conscious Lucy.
Lucy awakens to a reality more bizarre than her dreams. Sure that Samuel’s vows are coerced, she does everything in her power to convince him to annul the marriage. With the help of his mother and Sarah, Samuel sets out to prove to Lucy that the vows he took are permanent, if she will give him a second chance.
Waking Lucy is the recipient of the 2017 Recommended Read Award in the League of Utah Writers published book contest.
A confirmed flirt in need of reform meets a preacher in need of laughter. These opposites are on a collision course with love.
Elizabeth Garrett’s latest flirtation embarrassed her father, a Massachusetts judge. Now he is determined to see her reformed or sent away. Who better than his Aunt Mindwell to oversee Elizabeth’s reformation? With a name like that, Elizabeth is sure her freedom is gone.
After his wife’s death, Reverend Gideon Frost loses everything: his faith, his congregation and, most especially, his way. Transferred to the tiny community of East Stoughton, he must take a second job to supplement his lay clergy position. His feisty employer, Mindwell Roberts, doesn’t have time to coddle him. She has problems of her own, a nineteen-year-old niece whose only life skill is flirting.
Elizabeth knows how to play all the games and can wait her father out. Until her flirtations land her in the worst trouble of her life. The last thing she expects to find is joy and love in her great-aunt’s home and with a stuffy preacher
The key opens a box, unlocks the past and defines the future.
On her fourteenth birthday in 1775, Anna Stickney received a precious gift, a handmade journal. A place to keep her secrets and write her wishes. As the country sought independence, Anna fought battles of her own, fell in love, and faced heartbreak all of which she recorded in tiny script. Someday she thought she would share the contents with her daughter. But Anna waited for another tomorrow to come…
After her mother died, Lucy Wilson found a locked box. Unable to locate the key in the Massachusetts home Lucy shared with her husband and little sister, the box sat keeping its secrets safely locked inside.
Hours before Lucy’s life changes forever, she locates the missing key. No longer free to explore the box all at once, Lucy savors the contents in the few quiet moments she can snatch. Anna’s words burden, sooth, and free Lucy as she comes to know the woman she called Mama.
Note: You may read Remembering Anna as 0.5 or 2.5 in the series order
A confirmed flirt in need of reform meets a preacher in need of laughter. These opposites are on a collision course with love.
Elizabeth Garrett’s latest flirtation embarrassed her father, a Massachusetts judge. Now he is determined to see her reformed or sent away. Who better than his Aunt Mindwell to oversee Elizabeth’s reformation? With a name like that, Elizabeth is sure her freedom is gone.
After his wife’s death, Reverend Gideon Frost loses everything: his faith, his congregation and, most especially, his way. Transferred to the tiny community of East Stoughton, he must take a second job to supplement his lay clergy position. His feisty employer, Mindwell Roberts, doesn’t have time to coddle him. She has problems of her own, a nineteen-year-old niece whose only life skill is flirting.
Elizabeth knows how to play all the games and can wait her father out. Until her flirtations land her in the worst trouble of her life. The last thing she expects to find is joy and love in her great-aunt’s home and with a stuffy preacher
