What is the most important thing in life? Young John Goodricke was convinced he knew. This, coupled with genius, propelled him forward. His night sky observations made from a lonely garret window in York led to the most important naked eye discovery in all of astronomy, yet he remained unassuming and humble. He was also totally deaf.

He lived in ‘Enlightenment’ England, but it was still a society where prospects for the deaf child were bleak. Determined parents placed him in the first school for the deaf in all Great Britain, setting him on the path to the highest recognition given by the Royal Society.

Goodricke’s Time is an historical novel, but not an alternate history. Well known contemporaries such as William Herschel, Nevil Maskelyne, Samuel Johnson and others all play their part on the page as they did in life. It is a true tale of disability, dogged science and the conflict between solitude and loneliness we all carry within.

Freedom of the press is in peril. Families are torn apart by politics and principle. Opposing political parties manipulate the public in speeches, public meetings, and the media, grasping for votes and consolidating power. Foreign nations peddle influence in all directions to achieve their own ends. The struggle between citizens and government tugs at the threads of the American Constitution… and democracy itself. In a matter of moments, the United States will shatter, beginning the long march of the American Civil War.

So, Harry Wentworth--pacifist of note, gentleman of distinction, and journalist of renown--must finally resolve his own moral quandary: comment on the war from his influential position in Northern Society or make a news story and a target of himself in a Southern city he has long since left behind. His choices, from the first day of the war to the last, will irrevocably alter his mind, his body, his spirit, and his purpose as an honorable man.

Edward Snell was curious when Robert Fellwood, the heir to Hartford Manor, requested a meeting. His client was followed by an old man who, though respectably dressed, had something of a vagrant about him. The crisp suit in which he was attired could not disguise his weather-beaten face or his missing teeth.

Robert introduced his Uncle Sam and explained he had come to claim his inheritance. The solicitor was old enough to remember the extensive search for Thomas Fellwood in 1840. However, that was some forty-five years ago, and the young man had never been found. Yet here was Sam, who claimed to be Thomas Fellwood’s son.

The Rabbit’s Foot is an intriguing novel with many twists and turns. Set in the seaside village of Hartford, it tells how an old man, who has spent his life with barely a penny to his name, suddenly finds himself rich beyond his wildest dreams. However, all Sam Fellwood truly wants is to be reunited with his son, Marrok, whom he abandoned at the age of five.

Billionaire bank owner Rainer Mac Laine is close to completing his most important mission.

Marrying Astral Le Noireau.

The retired US Navy Commander has searched for decades to find the woman who captured his heart while he was stationed in the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1941.

Now he has found her, a patient in a hospital in Washington DC recovering from a debilitating stroke and this woman wants nothing to do with him.

Can he dance through the fire of her resistance and claim her love once more?

How the hell could they tell her No?
Renee Le Noireau is out in the cold again, and she is not pleased.
For the second time, the British-trained solicitor has been denied an inheritance.
Her stuck-up, younger-by-two-minutes, twin brother, Rhys, has swept the pot, leaving her in a lonely-in-London predicament.
Until she gets the letter that puts her on a collision course with destiny.

Army Major, Louis Bouisguard, has spent a large part of his life listening to his parents argue about their relationship with Astral and Orleans Le Noireau. The last thing he expected as Military attaché at the High Commission in London, is an encounter of his own with a Le Noireau.
He is sick of hearing the name.

Rhys Le Noireau is a conflicted man.
His mother Astral told never told him he was heir to a multi-billion dollar estate in the Caribbean island of Trinidad.
While Astral lies comatose in a Washington DC facility, Rhys discovers, not only has he, inherited the estate but the codicil of his Great-grandfather's will is explicit. He must return to Trinidad and live in the Le Noireau Chateau in Scotland Bay, a village where no one has lived since 1941.

Annalise Roach has finally got the man of her dreams.
As ‘Girl Friday’ to his mother, Astral Le Noireau, she has been comforting Rhys through his mother's illness and gently loving him through life's storms.
Just when Annalise thinks she can relax and enjoy their relationship, the codicil in Jean Claude Le Noireau's will, surfaces, ripping away her chance of happiness, and taking Rhys on a perilous journey through churning Caribbean tides, washing him and their relationship onto the rocky shores of Scotland Bay and the Chateau on the Hill.

SEPTEMBER 1665.
Plague ravages the English capital, London.

Thousands are left dead.

In the Derbyshire village of Eyam, 160 miles north of the London tragedies, Kitty Allenby is settling into country life. Encouraged by her Aunt Anne and Uncle Robert, she is excited for the year ahead.

That is until a stranger arrives from London, bringing a parcel of cloth for the local tailor – cloth infested with plague-carrying fleas.
Within weeks, Eyam is under siege.

By spring 1666, drastic action is needed to contain the spread of disease. What can be done?

The Reverend William Mompesson thinks he knows. For his plan to succeed, Mompesson will need the cooperation of the whole community, including his predecessor and rival, Thomas Stanley.

Will the two men be able to put aside the deep mistrust of one another for the sake of the people they are called to serve? How will the doomed villagers respond?

It's 412 A.D., the Roman Empire is on the brink of collapse. In Albion, Lalia gathers with fellow supplicants to call on the Goddess Cybele to aid their city of Londinium. It is a simple plan; lure her to the temple with Marcus, a handsome but reluctant priestly candidate. They succeed. The goddess animates her statue using the power of a golden orb, forged by Vulcan, the god of fire. A rival mob attacks; a melee ensues causing Cybele to drop her orb. Lalia retrieves it but in a panicked fight with Marcus, flings it into the River Thames. Without its power the goddess is trapped in her own statue. Before she turns to stone, Cybele lays a curse on Lalia's head; she is bound in a cycle of reincarnation and death. Only the return of the orb will set her free.

Imprisonment, pregnancy, death. These are the difficulties facing Rachel Palsgrove and her teamster confidant, Jesse Quinter. During the winter of 1777-1778, British troops luxuriate in Philadelphia while General George Washington’s soldiers starve and freeze at Valley Forge. Rachel lives at Hopewell Village, an iron-making community supporting the Patriots. She scorns the traditional women’s roles of wife and mother and would rather shovel out a stall than clean a house. Her dreams of becoming a teacher are dashed when the trustees at the University in Philadelphia won’t admit a woman to their all-male society. A barrister at her boardinghouse, British spy Edmund Morris, helps her appeal the University’s decision while hoping to glean intelligence about Hopewell’s treasonous activities. Rachel and Jesse race to the village to warn of a possible inspection by British troops that could jeopardize everything. Will they survive imprisonment, pregnancy, and death? Will Rachel achieve her d

‘A story of love and political intrigue, set against the backdrop of the English hunting shires and the streets of Victorian London and post-revolutionary Paris.’

This novel draws attention to a protagonist’s narrative of an obscure chapter of the Philippine-American War. Full of action and drama, it vividly portrays an oppressed people's predicament driven into ambivalence, duplicity, and expediency that would compromise ideology but for the ultimate common good—Peace. It happened more than a hundred years ago, but still relevant, and timely in our conflicted world today.
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As an eyewitness, Felipe narrates his first-hand account of the Balangiga massacre and its Aftermath. He recalls his ambivalent roles as a teenage Filipino houseboy of the massacred Company C. Tipped by his friends, he did not tell Capt. Connell about the plot. During the attack, he fought with them, fleeing with the surviving Yanqui soldiers to Basey. His insurrecto brother Victor took him to the Sohoton camps, throwing him to the other side of the conflict. In the brutal retribution campaign by the Americans to turn Samar into a “howling wilderness,” he witnessed the cruel treatment of his compatriots, the tortures, the killings, and the summary executions of Maj. Waller’s mutinous cargadores, including his brother, Waller’s accused would-be assassin during the Lanang-Basey march. These atrocities shocked the conscience of America, leading to the court-martial of the General in command, the operations Major and his lieutenants.

One man fights to destroy his family, another to save his. Only one can be victorious.
Ireland 1594. Eunan’s village is destroyed, the rebellion appears over. As the forces of the English crown pillage the countryside, the rebel leader goes into hiding. Eunan’s past has come back to haunt him.

Eunan goes forth to seek the rebel leaders. He must take control of his family lands and turn them from supporting the crown to declaring for the rebellion.

All that stands before him are the forces of the crown, the deserted ranks of the rebellion and the minor matter of his own family.

Meanwhile, Seamus faces a dilemma. Consequences from the past loom large. He must save his own family, but to do so could stop the rebellion in its tracks.

Who will succeed if the other needs to fail?

‘Uprising’ is the next instalment of the gripping ‘Exiles’ historical Irish family saga.

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