Historical Fiction

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A Promise Kept

How far would you go to keep a promise?

When twelve-year-old Oliver Ainsworth promised his life to Avery Hastings, she never believed him. After years apart, through war and tragedy, it seems even more likely that he’s forgotten her entirely. And she’s moved on as well.

Haunted by their parents’ gruesome murder and the overbearing debt they’d left behind, Avery and her sister both sell themselves into different trades to make their livings, to pay back the murderer before he comes for them too. As for Oliver? The war came for him just like it came for every other young boy in their village. Or so Avery thinks.

Until her employment with a wealthy family in France forces their two worlds to collide once more and she learns there’s far more to the boy she knew than she could have ever imagined.

Bound by a contract neither of them ever signed, they must come together again after years apart, after being worlds away, after becoming different people. A contract which states that they are overdue for their own wedding. But, after a lengthy engagement, when Oliver gives Avery the chance to opt out… will she even want to?

WINNER of the Watty 2022 Historical Fiction Award

The Langley & Porter Mystery Series

Alexander Langley wasn’t looking for trouble but Charlotte Porter found him anyway. Only, this new partnership has them in over their heads and way before their time.

2020 WATTYS WINNER in MYSTERY

The life of a poor merchant’s daughter in Victorian Era London is quite boring. Charlotte Porter, it seems, is the exception. Desperate for a source of income once her father’s gambling debts have drained their funds and placed them in the sights of some of London’s most notorious criminals, Charlotte is in search of salvation. It comes in the form of handsome detective Alexander Langley, a curious gentleman with a strange connection to Scotland Yard and an even stranger connection to the American West.

Charlotte soon finds herself swept into his world of investigation and intrigue. When a case of art theft turns into murder and she and Alexander are thrown into the seedy underbelly of the London elite, Charlotte realizes that the work isn’t the only thing she’s become attached to. But now, her father’s powerful creditors are ready to close the books on them, and Charlotte must find a way to keep them out of the red because this time it won’t be written in ink.

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Content warning: This story contains violence.

Of Traitors And Tyrants

Not every love story begins in a fog of flirtation and flattery.

Some of the strongest bonds are formed, most unexpectedly, through hardship. This is especially the case for strong willed, quick witted Mila Zolotov. Her beloved country has been at war with their northern neighbors for over three decades and, as a member of the royal family herself, she has always been expected to despise them the most. Why, then, would her brother make his first act as their country’s new King betrothing her to their enemy’s Prince?

Thrust into a world that she had always been taught to hate, Mila finds her heart opening to the people whom her brother calls savages. She finds herself forming unlikely friendships with those groups of people with whom a princess should never interact; soldiers and prostitutes, orphans and hermits. She finds herself on a journey to a love that she never asked for and to the heartbreak of the inevitable choice between a new love and an old. In the end, Mila will learn a valuable lesson. That we are judged, not on what we can control, but on how we handle that which is outside of our control.