I love Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, which mentions a ten-year absence of Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl and Hester's subsequent return alone to the Puritan village where she had been condemned to wear her scarlet letter. Paula Reed writes of his two characters ten years in En...
Geoffrey Hampton has little faith in his fellow man. The English privateer follows his own fearless code, taking his fortune and his pleasures as he sees fit. And as for the possibility of finding true love, well, it's an illusion...as unlikely as a beautiful woman hiding in his cabin. But Faith ...
Captain Diego Montoya is working toward one goal--owning his own ship. His patron saint, Mary Magdalene, has a different idea--appearing to him in visions as compelling as they are troubling, she promises that true love awaits him. With no idea where or when he will meet the demure bride he's sur...
"Life is like that, Grace. Sometimes you sail with nothing to trust but the stars... It all works out if you plot your course carefully." Giles Courtney may be the captain of his own ship, but he's not yet certain he's the master of his destiny. His reckless privateering days behind him, Giles is...
Neighbors and family acquaintances came to the house after the burial and gasped at the sight of all the exquisite roses adorning every room left open to visitors. It was as though death and the advent of winter had been left outside, but here spring and life prevailed. Mi...