Series: The Women of Ayredale House
Historical Women’s Fiction
Book One: Sarah
Trouble awaited her. She could feel it in her bones.
In 1880 London, on her eighteenth birthday, Sarah Anderson stands at a crossroads in her life. She defies her stepfather and is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. Searching for her godmother amidst the filthy London streets, she discovers three abandoned children. In the process, she not only finds a family but a man to love. Life deals Sarah many choices.
A clean love story that takes the reader into life in Victorian times. Follow Sarah on her journey of life and love.
Book Two: Fiona
THE SATIN OF LONDON TURNS TO COTTON AND CALICO.
AN OLD FRIEND BECOMES A NEW LOVE.
A MISGUIDED MAN BECOMES A TRUSTED FRIEND.
Life has a way of uprooting folks. These nineteenth century strong men, women and children seek a new life on the western frontier. With adventure in their souls, they travel from London, England to New York, then move across the golden grasses of the plains and finally through the Adirondack Mountains to end up in Rainbow Waters, Missouri.
WHEN THE TRAIN FINALLY SCREECHED TO A HALT, THEY STEPPED OFF INTO A NEW LIFE.
Faced with a new way of living, new jobs, and new relationships, some will find love and some will find danger. Follow these brave individuals as their journeys take them to unexpected places.
Book Three: Rosie
A bold, fiery red-headed deputy with six shooters on her hips, heads to Granite City to fight bandits and clean up an ungodly town. She finds danger, new friends and helps to solve an age-old mystery. Rosie meets Buck, a Deputy United States Marshal, who mistakes her for his mail-order bride and the sparks fly.
Travel to the Wild, Wild West and meet new people as they experience all the new frontier has to offer.
Book Four: Violet
How could a preacher lie? Lying was a sin but Violet had to lie in order to obtain her job as a female minister in Rainbow Waters, Missouri. No one could ever find out about her secret life which was forbidden for upstanding women in the 1800’s. A letter from Samuel who lives in this western town, informs Violet about an inheritance of acres of land with a house and a church from her deceased granddaddy.
An answer to a prayer, she relocates her family to that town hiding her past. This was her only option in order to get her younger brother, also a minister, and her mother out of the filth and stench of New York City.
Trouble follows when Samuel meets Violet and falls in love. Visiting the pastor in Granite City, a neighboring town where she relocated to, he discovers that the new physician Dr. Bennie and Violet have fallen in love. His anger overwhelms him. He believes she is meant for him.
Since being privy to the new doctor’s secret, he uses the biggest blabbermouth to spread gossip creating a scandal. Now to save Dr. Bennie when he is forced to explain all to the town, Violet will need to help him by confessing her secret too.
What a conundrum! Will the townsfolk let the two of them stay or force them to leave?