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3) River Palace
Author
Series
Water wheel novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Dennis Wainwright and Gage Kennon rescue a gypsy woman and travel the Mississippi on a showboat.
They'd fought on different sides in the Civil War, so their friendship was an unlikely alliance. Gage Kennon was a humble and devout Christan man; Dennis Wainwright was the idea man. In their travels Gage saves a Gypsy woman from a terrible accident, and later saves an innocent young woman from being arrested. When their road leads to the grand showboat,...
Author
Series
Water wheel novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Life hasn't been easy for Jeanne Bettencourt, a widow approaching thirty and struggling to provide for her eight-year-old daughter. But hope arrives in the form of the Helena Rose, a steamboat she unexpectedly inherits from a distant, departed relative. Jeanne's father had captained a similar vessel and taught her how to pilot a steamer along the banks of Memphis. She's looking forward to a renewed livelihood on the mighty Mississippi.
13) The alchemy
Author
Series
Creoles series volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Simone d'Or, a golden-haired beauty with a prideful mind and fiery temper, attracts only trouble in nineteenth-century New Orleans. Men are willing to duel to the death for the privilege of marrying her. Her drunken brother's moral meandering requires her interference. And her own arrogance blinds her to a dear friend's most compelling need. In this riveting story of vengeance and vanity, Simone must soon face the guilt of a suitor's blood, the disappearance...
14) The crossing
Author
Series
Last cavaliers trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After the death of his mother, Yancy Tremayne is taken by his father back to his boyhood home in an Amish community. Yancy has trouble conforming to Amish life and joins the Confederate army at the outbreak of the Civil War under General Stonewall Jackson. After he saves a Union soldier at Bull Run, he meets his sister, Lorena, and finally finds a home.
Author
Series
Water wheel novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A prideful woman and a drunkard captain seek restoration and find it, by God's grace, in each other.
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