American Homespun
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.
Waking Lucy
He married her to save her life… and she woke up furious.
Massachusetts, 1797. Samuel Wilson carries deep regret. Ashamed of his failures and convinced the woman he loves deserves better, he broke off their engagement with a brief, cruel note and has longed to undo the damage ever since. But when a blizzard cuts off their close-knit village and he finds his feverish former fiancée near death, the honorable man does the only thing he can to save her life… and the most reckless thing imaginable: he marries her.
Lucy Simms hoped for a loving marriage. Waking to find herself wed to the blue-eyed charmer who broke her heart, the strong-willed young woman has no intention of being bound to any man without her full consent. And certain his vows were driven by guilt, family pressure, and her helpless condition, she is determined to seek an annulment, even if her wounded heart still remembers the man she once loved.
Can two wounded hearts overcome regret, pride, and old pain to build the home they were always meant to share?
Waking Lucy is the recipient of the 2017 Recommended Read Award in the League of Utah Writers published book contest.
Reforming Elizabeth
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.
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Remembering Anna
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.
Healing Sarah
The only thing colder than Summer 1816 is Sarah’s heart, and Dr. Timison Dawes is determined to melt it.
Sarah Marden is perfectly happy in her role as the family spinster. Almost. But things aren’t the way they should be this summer. Emma’s health is failing, snow is falling in June, and Timmy is back. Twenty years ago, Sarah ran from his kisses because he smelled like barn cats. Now she doesn’t want to refuse him, no matter how much she should.
Dr. Timison Dawes has seen the brutal side of war. He hopes his career is destined for greater things than being a small-town doctor. He didn’t plan on staying home after his sister’s wedding, but then he didn’t expect Sarah to be single either.
A temporary job offer gives him the excuse to see if there is a reason to make the North Shore his home.How can Tim convince Sarah to give up her perpetual mourning and look for a spring when even mother nature refuses to help?
