There is a hint of the magical and mystical in our world . . .
Book 1: A Knight's Virtue
13th century - Widowed knight Alexander Breton had gone crusading to retreat from sorrow. Indeed, he was to take monastic vows after fulfilling a solemn promise to hide the mystical Mandylion away from those who would defile it. But fate decreed he would find and rescue Lucy Kendal during his quest — the brave, beauteous innocent, who needed protection.
Lucy Kendal would do anything to leave the convent she’d called home since girlhood. But never had she dreamed the world contained such danger — and such desire — as she’d experienced firsthand. The pious Sir Alexander Breton had rescued her countless times, he also stirred a sense of wildness in her — something he was honor bound never to fulfill.
Book 2: Swindler’s Daughter
Dorothea Bright, a prim, coddled young lady with a heart condition, leaves her quiet Oxford home in 1883 to live in London with her estranged father, an esteemed antiquities collector. Little does she know Alastair Bright is a swindler and a fraud, who cheated the wrong man.
Archaeologist Jack Temple has seen firsthand what a scoundrel Dorrie Bright’s father is. And when he comes upon a map that purports to show the location of the Mandylion, a sacred, miraculous relic that was hidden in York by a crusader knight in the 13th century, he drags Dorrie along for the adventure of her life.
Book 3: Ready Magic
Lilly Tearwater has the ability to make things happen. All kinds of things. Magical things. It’s a useful but dangerous talent that she rarely used, until 1886 when her inn needed an influx of cash to pay off her aunt’s debts. Lilly and her sister are on their own now, and in order to keep Ravenwell Cottage filled with guests, Lilly makes ghostly apparitions appear to the delight and wonderment of all who see them.
Except for Samuel Temple, a scientist who is sure they are somehow manufactured, making Lilly Tearwater a fraud. Emotionally scarred from his recent capture and captivity in the Sudan, he rejects the very notion of magic, or the supernatural. But he also realizes there is something special about Lilly. Fraud or not, he knows that together they’ll experience the adventure of a lifetime.
Genre: Historical Romance
Book 1: A Knight's Virtue
13th century - Widowed knight Alexander Breton had gone crusading to retreat from sorrow. Indeed, he was to take monastic vows after fulfilling a solemn promise to hide the mystical Mandylion away from those who would defile it. But fate decreed he would find and rescue Lucy Kendal during his quest — the brave, beauteous innocent, who needed protection.
Lucy Kendal would do anything to leave the convent she’d called home since girlhood. But never had she dreamed the world contained such danger — and such desire — as she’d experienced firsthand. The pious Sir Alexander Breton had rescued her countless times, he also stirred a sense of wildness in her — something he was honor bound never to fulfill.
Book 2: Swindler’s Daughter
Dorothea Bright, a prim, coddled young lady with a heart condition, leaves her quiet Oxford home in 1883 to live in London with her estranged father, an esteemed antiquities collector. Little does she know Alastair Bright is a swindler and a fraud, who cheated the wrong man.
Archaeologist Jack Temple has seen firsthand what a scoundrel Dorrie Bright’s father is. And when he comes upon a map that purports to show the location of the Mandylion, a sacred, miraculous relic that was hidden in York by a crusader knight in the 13th century, he drags Dorrie along for the adventure of her life.
Book 3: Ready Magic
Lilly Tearwater has the ability to make things happen. All kinds of things. Magical things. It’s a useful but dangerous talent that she rarely used, until 1886 when her inn needed an influx of cash to pay off her aunt’s debts. Lilly and her sister are on their own now, and in order to keep Ravenwell Cottage filled with guests, Lilly makes ghostly apparitions appear to the delight and wonderment of all who see them.
Except for Samuel Temple, a scientist who is sure they are somehow manufactured, making Lilly Tearwater a fraud. Emotionally scarred from his recent capture and captivity in the Sudan, he rejects the very notion of magic, or the supernatural. But he also realizes there is something special about Lilly. Fraud or not, he knows that together they’ll experience the adventure of a lifetime.
Genre: Historical Romance
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