Read this if you like your dual-timeline historical fiction with a strong sense of place and an everywoman's zeal.At the end of her remarkable life of ninety-three years, spanning a world war and three continents, Sheila MacGregor Beals donates her beautiful, forested property to create a nature preserve.Can Meg solve the mystery of Sheila MacGregor?In the year before the park opens, Meg, a resourceful librarian who has moved to Indiana to escape an...

Concoctions, treats, brews, and potions from another batch of feisty charactersWhether cooking for solace, scrounging for food, concocting medicine, or brewing poisons, the feisty women in these stories will keep you thirsting for more. Twenty-five tales will transport you far afield in time and place: third century Ireland, medieval Europe, twentieth-century Australia.Read your way from a hippie commune to a WW II internment camp in the Philippines; from a Renaissance pala...

Kirsten is a long way from home when she takes a job in the idyllic Kenepuru Sound, caring for seven year old Sarah. Despite having lost her mother when she was a baby, she is a bright and bubbly child and Kirsten warms to her almost instantly, but rich and sophisticated grandmother Beth has ideas for her upbringing that Kirsten doesn't agree with. Being a fiery redhead, Kirsten has always had trouble keeping her opinions to herself, and now is no different.Kirsten is also faced wi...