National Network for Equitable Library Service

Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence . . . until she meets Tim.

Mark Antony, famous warrior and legendary lover, expects that he will be Julius Caesar's successor. But when Caesar is murdered, his eighteen-year-old nephew, Octavian, is named his heir.

For twenty-one-year-old Harriet Purcell life irrevocably changes the moment she steps out the door of her respectable suburban home for the very last time.

In the mental ward of an Australian military hospital just after World war Two, nurse Honour Langtry cares intensely for the five men in her charge.

In 1895 Texas, Karel Skala enters the world while his mother dies in childbirth.

Machart pens this critically acclaimed collection of 10 nuanced tales.