Elizabeth Clarke gave her brother a silver locket to remind him of home as he left for war in June of 1917. But as the Great War ends for America, it continues on for Elizabeth. While carrying out duties for the US State Department, her father went missing in the chaos of the Russia Revolution. When word arrives that he is alive and needs assistance moving a valuable and mysterious ‘package’ out of Russia, it is up to his children to organize the rescue.
Elizabeth discovers the locket has become more than a link to her brother in times of war, but also between her and the veteran Captain Robert Rainey, a man who rises emotions that are a dangerous distraction to the Mission.
As they plunge into the maelstrom of 1919 Russia, they face warlords, anarchists, monarchists, Bolsheviks, and Cossacks in a conflict with many sides and brutal treachery. They also find a dark force following them, hoping to be lead to the precious package that could change the course of history.

Our heroine is attempting, secretly, to get her PhD in physics. She lives in a society prejudiced against her, as a female. The hero’s is an Olympic weightlifter. His brother, a physics professor is a Stephen Hawking character in a wheelchair. He has invented The Q (a quantum computer Time Machine). It allows travelers to go back to any era into the bodies of their past lives. Our hero goes into the body of Colin Maclaurin, who first put Newtons calculus on the map. The past scientist are threatened and it’s up to the heroine to use The Q to save them. Within the book we discover the real force behind The Q, Electress Sophia of The House of Hanover, mother of George I.

Based on true evernts.
1942.The war at sea is being lost. One per cent of all naval personnel are being referred as psychiatric casualties. The British Admiralty introduces the Stone Frigate approach.
Three men fight for their country in the Arctic convoys of World War II, then for their sanity and dignity, labelled as cowards and subjected to experimental psychiatry at an isolated facility set up to by the British Admiralty to recycle men back into battle.
To the Navy they are faulty parts, not constitutionally suited to operate at sea. To the public they are poltroons, malingerers and psychiatric cases.
The places in this story are real, but everyone who played a part in what happened is now dead. It is safe to tell what really happened. What was important then, nobody cares about now.
True courage is facing danger when you are afraid, surviving in the circus of war.

21st century woman fights for survival alongside a captain in the American Revolutionary War who is hunted by a dark entity that threatens his secret mission and vow to help her find her way home.

As the dark clouds of WW2 begin to roll away from England’s shores, lives change forever in the Croft household.

Moira waits impatiently to leave the boarding school which she loathes, dreaming about entering the male-dominated world of horse racing. Her brother Peter, an RAF bomb aimer, struggles with both monotony and fear as he flies on missions with Bomber Command over Europe.

Peace finally arrives, and the family moves to a new home. Ever entrepreneurial Father always seeks new opportunities and turns the house into a Country Club. Mother meddles and tries to thwart everyone’s plans with her own.

Can they build new lives, or will there be heartbreak before each one finds happiness in the post-war world?

The eyes may be said to be the scouts of the heart, but these two rebellious hearts might as well be blind.

In January of 1917, young Piedad Arellano is riding the streetcar across the Santa Fe Bridge that connects Juarez, Mexico to El Paso where she works as a housemaid. When she learns El Paso is using kerosene and toxic chemicals to “treat” workers for suspected lice, she takes a stand and says, No! Thousands join her in the protest, shutting down bridge traffic and making international news.

Walter Stevenson is an agent with the newly formed Bureau of Investigation, on a mission to identify the “master spy” being handled by the precursor of the Nazi party there in El Paso.

Their two worlds collide when Piedad is arrested for inciting the Bath Riots and Walt reluctantly comes to her aid. No two lovers were ever more mismatched.

Spies are pursued, dark family secrets are revealed, and romance may be possible in this historical novel based on the true events of the Bath Riots.

It’s 1911 in Piedmont, Italy. Pietro has at last captured the melody of the harvest on his clarinet, but before he can share his music, a deadly disease sweeps through the countryside, forcing his family to burn their vineyard to stop its spread. The loss is too much for Pietro’s grandfather, and by morning, Pietro has lost two of the most precious things in life—his grandfather and the vineyard.
Adrift with grief, Pietro travels to America and takes a job in a Pennsylvania coal mine where his musician’s hands blister and his days are spent in silence until one day, the beautiful voice and gentle heart of his friend’s wife stirs a new song within him. As Pietro draws inspiration from Assunta, his gift for music returns. But when tragedy strikes and Pietro is to blame, he is forced to confront the consequences of his admiration for another man’s wife, all while fighting for the love he never thought he’d find.

A tale of love, deception, rivalry, intrigue and death, set along the desolate coasts of 18th century Suffolk, where ordinary folk struggle to make a living. Kate from Orford falls in love with a smuggler and has to keep him secret from her family. At the same time a respectable miller has come to court her but soon becomes entangled in a bitter rivalry for her affections. Set amongst the reed packed waterways, lonely shingle beaches and big skies of Suffolk, this is a tale of love and revenge, when the so called 'free traders' fought a constant battle with the Preventive service.

Saved by secret agent Phil Cullen from the house of ill-repute into which she’s been held against her will, Sophia Turner flees from her rescuer before he can learn her true identity.

To Sophia’s dismay, Phil turns up in her life again just as she has established herself as a lady’s companion. He is on the trail of an elusive and ruthless French spy. Despite knowing that Phil has the power to ruin her new-found contentment, Sophia instinctively turns to this gallant gentleman when an even deadlier threat to her life as a respectable spinster reappears. Is this a mistake she will come to regret?

It isn’t long before Sophia’s life becomes a perilous adventure, where smiling faces mask treachery and deceit. No one is as they seem, and danger lurks in unexpected places. Will helping Phil unmask his spy and solving the mystery of her own murky origins explain why she is being relentlessly pursued? By uncovering dark family secrets will Sophia destroy her chances of finding true love?

Singapore, 1939

Once a rising star of Singapore CID, Inspector Maximo Betancourt has been relegated to the Marine Division, with tedious dockyard disputes and goods inspections among his new duties. But when a beautiful, unidentified Japanese woman is found murdered in the shadow of a warehouse owned by one of Singapore's most powerful families, a distinctive tiger tattoo the only clue to her identity, Betancourt defies orders and pursues those responsible. What he discovers will bring him into conflict with powerful enemies, and force him to face his personal demons.

'Intricately plotted, thoroughly authentic and in Betancourt, a world-weary but witty and appealing protagonist, Waking the Tiger is a wonderfully accomplished debut. I felt transported back to the Singapore of the 1940s and I can't wait for the next one. Wightman is a writer we can expect great things of.' –Abir Mukherjee

What's a sensitive classical pianist doing in a sleazy WWII Parisian cabaret? Why is he keeping his Chopin sheet music inside the bench seat every night? Which two people from his past have scarred his soul forever?
Winter Pale, a young beautiful foreigner, a girl with a painful past of her own, recounts his story and, with it, delves deep into her own soul.

This short story, from the backstage of the award winning historical novel WINTER PALE, sheds light onto the character of Louis, the exceptional, poetic, and visionary pianist of 'The Golden Doe' club, and is a perfect standalone as well as an insightful complementary read to the main novel.

If you loved "The War in our Hearts", "Promise at Dawn", and "At Swim, Two Boys" you must read this deeply emotional, thought-provoking, and intriguing character revelation.

For 22-year-old Winter Pale, choices never were an option. Living in Paris, a British girl so far away from home, left her with very little, and, as if that were not enough, Paris is soon occupied by the German army. A time of struggle for survival; a time when love starts to bloom.
Winter’s heart is torn between two men, a French Resistance fighter and an SS major, both of which are definitely books not to be judged by their covers. They are mortal enemies, and Winter knows that if she chooses one side over the next, the consequences may be dire.
Where will her heart lie? As Winter’s expectations are subverted, making the choice that matters is getting harder and harder. The vicious circle of fault and guilt is closing in on her. Will she find the strength to break it?
A spiral down a path of conflict, despair and hope; a tale about choices and the empowering might of love.