Category: Historical Fiction

This faraway, pre-contact story begins with Helkena, a young, still untattooed girl enduring a typhoon crashing over the only island she has ever known. Her home is W0tto, one of the dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The newborn infant Lainjin has just been entrusted to her care by his mother, who has sailed her fleet of proas into the open ocean to save them from certain destruction. Helkena, having barely survived the storm, must now travel to Namdik, a wet atoll in the ... [Read More...]

In the spring of 1870, Cade Wilson is one of three orphans of the American Civil War that meet a samurai warrior from Japan in the northern New Mexico Territory. This warrior trains these young men in the samurai way––in their weapons of war and the code they live by. As honor-bound servants to their Benefactor, these samurai cowboys combine their deadly new skills with the way of the West (the gun) to ruthlessly increase and defend their master’s landholdings. And taking control of the t... [Read More...]

Georgie, born to a single mother in post WW2, Cumberland, dreams throughout her childhood of becoming a dancer, but instead falls victim to sexual abuse by her stepfather, and then neglect and rejection by both her mother and her absent father. She runs away to London where she is able to kick start her dancing career. But things go badly wrong, and Georgie finds herself imprisoned into a life she did not choose, with little chance of escape. She had rarely prayed to God, but it seemed He was w... [Read More...]