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The Widow’s Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away for the last time and discretely gives an overview of the oncoming marriage between heroine Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth. This, it transpires in The Widow’s Fire, is merely the beginning of a journey. Soon dark undercurrents disturb the order and symmetry of Austen’s world. The gothic flavor of the period, usually satirized by Austen, begins to assert itself.

Sick of covering weddings, birthdays, and protests, photographer Madelyn Hathaway grabs her camera and heads out in the forests of Nova Scotia, looking for inspiration. She finds it and more when her foray into nature photography leads her to discover something thought lost to history. As her husband and friends step in to manage the repercussions, Madelyn delves into an exploration of freedom, history, and responsibility to the natural world that culminates in a decision to fight for what she believes is right. Though it might be too late.

THE FATE OF A FUTURE AMERICA. In The Preservation Plan, the final book of THE VEXTON SERIES, an election brings tensions across the country to a head as Peace-Bringer nominee Nicole Kratz and Militant Alliance leader Gerald Levin ruthlessly battle for the presidency. But the future of the country they seek to lead is in jeopardy. Faced with a looming deadline imposed by the Outer Commission to pay its debt—as well as the threat of external forces looking to settle old scores—America is at risk of losing not just its independence, but its identity as a free nation.

A FUTURE AMERICA IN CRISIS. Moon Shade Bluff tells the story of a country in internal revolt. Having survived a plot to overtake the government in Manufractured (Book 1), the Westgale Administration finds itself mired in new conflicts, as unrest among America’s youth spills over into rebellion and America’s independence is tied to the fortunes of the autocratic nation of Pinia. When a shocking discovery is made, Washington’s attention is drawn to the farming town of Vexton and the mysteries of Moon Shade Bluff.

This is a story of a future America. Moving between the government bureaucracy of Washington and a farming town called Vexton, MANUFRACTURED tells the story of a politically divided country in search of the true meaning of life, twenty-five years after a civil war. When a mysterious illness infects the country's youth, nationwide panic erupts, adding pressure to an already unstable government as it fights to find the cause and cure. Amidst environmental turmoil, a series of high profile murders suggests a conspiracy that could put America’s entire future in jeopardy.

The year was 1989 the year everything unexpected happened: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was the beginning of the end of an era, but Professor Hamilton West had the notion it was the end of much more – the end of history itself.

An enthralling novel set in early 19th-century England, Paris, and New York, featuring an indomitable young heroine who rises from ruin to become the toast of Paris, by way of the chic bordello she establishes for the most powerful men in France. Turned out of her ancestral home by her vicious half-brother, the orphaned daughter of an English duke and a French noblewoman makes her way to Paris and takes in abused French streetwalkers, transforming them into sought after courtesans in the city's most exclusive bordello, Le Boudoir.

Filled with heartbreak and betrayal, triumph and fulfillment, The Right Time is an intimate, richly rewarding novel about pursuing one's passion and succeeding beyond one's wildest dreams. Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow takes solace in the mysteries she reads with her devoted father-and soon she is writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, complex crime stories that reflect skill, imagination, and talent far beyond her years.

The second in this series tells a story of a world torn apart by war and strife, the Confederate States of America ally with Britain and France, while the United States sides with Germany in a World War I that might have been.