Empowering Unsung Women in History
A marriage of convenience leads to a life of passion and purpose. A shared vision transforms the American landscape forever.New York, 1858: Mary, a young widow with three children, agrees to marry her brother-in-law Frederick Law Olmsted, who is acting on his late brother’s deathbed plea to "not let Mary suffer”. But she craves more… Continue reading Landscape of a Marriage by Gail Ward Olmsted
Twelve year old Carissa Beaumont arrives in Tombstone, Arizona in 1880 with her mother and three women. Her mother and two of the others are prostitutes, and Miss Lucille, the madam, rules them with an iron hand. Carissa's mother, ill and addicted to drugs, is all she has. Carissa must find a way out of… Continue reading Blood and Silver by Vali Benson
“I WASN'T looking for Marilyn Monroe when I bumped into her, even though I knew she was in town filming River of No Return…” I love first lines of books, and this is a good one. Set in Utah in the 1950's, In a Town Called Paradox follows three people who are thrown together in this… Continue reading In a Town Called Paradox by Miriam Murcutt and Richard Starks
We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip by Anne Glass is a fresh look at another small piece of the suffrage movement. In 1915, three women accepted the task of driving a petition to Washington, D.C. demanding the vote for women. Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg own the vehicle, and Ingeborg handles all the mechanical issues.… Continue reading We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip
(first published on PaperLanternWriters.com) I confess to a love of novels about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. I’ve read several, and A Splendid Ruin doesn’t disappoint. May Kimble is penniless after her mother’s death in 1904. She is left with memories of her mother’s insistence that she would not always be poor, that the… Continue reading A Splendid Ruin by Megan Chance
