Deze auteur onderzoekt de complexiteit van identiteit en erfgoed door zijn fictie. Zijn werken duiken vaak in historische gebeurtenissen en persoonlijke reizen, waarbij diepe menselijke emoties en motivaties worden blootgelegd. Zijn benadering van schrijven is nauwgezet, waarbij hij onderzoekt hoe het verleden het heden vormt.
Curiosity piqued by beautiful New England and friendship with a medicine woman growing, Mercia Blakewood decides to delay her return home. Navigating a new landscape and the uneasy relationship between Puritan settlers and native tribes is complex but when the forests are tainted by murder Mercia will not rest until the killer is brought to justice
May 1665. Mercia Blakewood is headed back to England, hoping to leave behind the shadow of death and heartache. With the country now at war with the Dutch, the Crown has decided that Mercia is an asset to be used once again. She must accept a clandestine role at the heart of the glittering and debauched royal court to unmask a spy and traitor.
Four years after Charles II is restored to the throne, Mercia Blakewood stands to lose everything: her father to the executioner's axe, her freedom to her treacherous uncle, her son to his resentful grandparents. But when her father leaves her a cryptic message in his last speech, she seizes her chance to fight back.