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Liz Jameson had a history of going to crime scenes before the bodies were rolled. Not many deputy district attorneys considered it a part of their job, but crime scene investigators and most homicide detectives loved her for it. But the scene in Pioneertown was different. Pioneer had been a permanent movie set established by Gene Autry, Dick...

The celebrated Abbess of Saint Pierre les Dames d’ Rheims (1627-1639), Marguerite d’ Kircaldie, was considered the most beautiful woman in the world by the few men who had been allowed to see her. When she was a Novice, the walls of the cloister were raised to thwart young men who had tried to scale them just for a glimpse. When she arrived as a...

If California were an independent country, its economy would rank between Germany and the United Kingdom. Although its left-leaning electorate is predicted to shift somewhat before the next national election, California is unlikely to flip anytime soon. However, events occurring in the Golden State could change all that. Some might flow from...

The monster who had seduced the boys had been locked away for what amounted to a life sentence, until an appellate court set aside the verdict and granted him a new trial. Some of the thirteen victims were beginning to recover, but others never would. Most of them had lost their faith in a system that had already failed them, and vowed that this...

When Will Hepburn and Daisy Kirkcaldy return to Scotland in the winter of 1605 during the aftermath of the Powder Treason, they promise one another to leave English problems to the English. However, when the King’s First Minister Robert Cecil manipulates James into a purge of English Jesuits, Will is drafted into a plot to rescue the notorious...

The First Marie and the Queen of Scots is an epic novel of the conflicts between the queen’s first cousin Marie Flemyng’s loyalty to Marie Stuart and her love for William Maitland, the man Elizabeth Tudor called ‘the flower of the wit of Scotland.’ It has been called ‘a love story for the ages.’ But it is more than that. First Marie is a...

In this stand-alone second book in the Legacy of the Queen of Scots series, the headless Queen of Scots lays beneath the floor at Peterborough Cathedral in England, alongside Catherine of Aragon, another Tudor discard. Her son James VI of Scotland has cast off the yoke of Regency and is ready to claim Princess Anna of Denmark as his bride. Queen...

Join Daisy Kirkcaldy, posthumous daughter of the Knight of Grange, and Will Hepburn, son of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, as their adventures continue into the reign of James I of England. In the fourth book in the Legacy of the Queen of Scots series, it is early autumn, 1605. Marie Stuart’s son James VI of Scotland has been James I of...

Daisy Kirkcaldy (The Other Daughter) returns to Scotland married to her lover Will Hepburn and confident that their French adventures have assured the safety of the nun La Belle Ecossaise, the mysterious Marguerite Kirkcaldy. Daisy remains in Scotland handling their domestic business enterprises while awaiting the birth of their child while...