✦ Long-form fiction ✦

Novels

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Full-length works of historical fiction — each one an immersive world built from memory, longing, and the quiet drama of ordinary lives.

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Historical Fiction✦2024

A Page Apart

Book 1 in "The Queen Bee" Series

It's 1858 and Annabelle Manning's life is as divided as America itself. After sabotaging Papa at the debutante ball near his plantation in South Carolina, she travels North to spend the summer in New York plotting how to never return. With the help of social activists in her family's circle, and the stories of one young man's Western adventures in particular, she just might create a life of her own choosing. But is it even possible?

212 pages✦Holder House Books

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Historical Fiction✦2026

Our Sealed Letters

Book 2 of "The Queen Bee" Series

Having come of age, Annabelle knows all too well that the man she marries will determine the rest of her life. Even with an inquiring mind and rebellious spirit spurring her toward independence and self-determination, Annabelle faces a crushing reality. The decision, and her future, depend on her overbearing father. Will she accept an oppressive life with her rakish cousin Myles Wilcox, or can the poet John Root be convinced to help her escape to the Western frontier?

180 pages✦Holder House Books