To a dusty, flea-ridden pueblo, Los Angeles in 1851, sailed Captain Patrick Donovan with his spirited, headstrong daughter Bets and his sister Mary, who abandoned by her Spanish husband, robbed of her child, but remains upright and proud. They came to settle, fighting for fortune and happiness. "A first-class family saga. . . extremely entertaining." —Publishers Weekly
An epic story of tough ambitious immigrants to California—Aaron, Jan and Rose. In brash little Los Angeles, each battles the way toward the top-one bringing in gushers in the fledgling oil discoveries; one fighting for stardom in the raw new movie industry; one, for the sake of his wife, trying for acceptance in a proud and closed society.
In horror, Nora McShane watched her father die in the balloon hed designed, hurtling downward. Nevertheless, she agrees to build a dirigible from his plans, in partnership with another aeronaut, Wolf Sanger, and puts aside as irrational her fears at living and working in his secluded mansion. But someone wants the dirigible to fail. Wants it badly enough to murder.
The Innocents is a gripping and fast-moving story of love in glamorous pre-war Italy, shifting to California as America enters the Depression, then back finally to Rome and Il Duce's bully boys. Gallant Holly Barr, true to herself, breaks all the rules of the Twenties, and must find a way to support her infant son while her heart still aches for David.
What was the evil that lingered in the decaying mansion, lonely and dark in the middle of Gospel Swamp, the vast, wild, watery morass that harbored outlaws, revival preachers, and rumors of a lost fortune in silver? Annabel Dean, young turn-of-the-century teacher, come there on an errand of mercy, would find out—if she lived.
The Dreamers is a can't-put-it-down, heart-tugging story of Los Angeles and four women: a passionate mother with a clouded past and her three unforgettable daughters. Caught up in the heady new excitement of flying and the glittering and ruthless lure of an infant film industry, each has her dream.