When an antique locket turns a Civil War reenactment into reality, Olivia Montgomery disappears into the past, leaving Joseph Underwood a suspect in her murder. She finds herself in the arms of Prentice Angelle, a Confederate surgeon. Amid the fervor and uncertainty of this tumultuous era, they fall in love. Happiness turns to disaster when a spurned riverboat captain attempts to kidnap Olivia. His action triggers her return to the present. Can true love overcome the barrier of time?
Ever wonder how Da Vinci could conjure up such futuristic concepts? Maybe he saw them. After striking a bargain with the Old One, a weaver of time, young Leonardo lands in 1969 New Orleans at the height of Mardi Gras. But things go awry when this medieval man befriends an unlikely couple--T-Man, an inept artist who moonlights as a bag man for the mob, and Monique, an amputee, grateful for T-Man's attention. Throw in murder and romance and you're set for an adventurous romp through history.
When one of their own becomes the prime suspect in the assassination of Russian diplomats, residents of a small southern town join wits with experts to identify the real culprit. The CIA believes Brendon Harrington is innocent. The Russians are convinced he's guilty, and time is running out. Tick. Tick. Tick.
For months, Susan Griffin's psychic abilities have eluded her, making it impossible to help Detective Wesley Grissom with his cold case. While Wesley misses Susan's insight, he's content knowing she is safe. Once Susan gets involved, she has a way of becoming a target, and that's exactly what happens when a heinous murder is discovered in the woods south of Palmetto. By accident, Susan uncovers an ancient arrowhead at the crime site. The artefact triggers her psychic powers. She's glad to have her visions restored, but what she seems only makes matters worse. Susan and Wesley struggle to make sense of everything and wonder - What other dark secrets might these woods hold?
Susan's vision comes true when Palmetto's flotilla recovers the remains of a missing resident. A witness and the victim's prior employment point to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where the Annual Pirates' Festival is in full swing. When a swank Biloxi casino contacts the Purple Pickle to supply costumes, Susan and A. K. jump at the chance. But even the best costumes can't hide the real evil, and before the weekend is over, no one is safe. A. K. wants only a weekend of fun. Susan, on the other hand, can't wait to question employees and maybe discover a motive for the murder. Spurred on by her visions, she ignores warning signs and soon finds herself in the clutches of a killer. When the local authorities attempt to execute an arrest warrant, the investigation turns upside down, and suspects become victims.
Susan Griffin awakes from surgery with one thought—how to stop a murder before it happens. Only the intended victim refuses to believe that she has foreseen his death. Worse yet, she hasn't a clue as to the murderer, and the day of reckoning is but two weeks away. As owner of the Bawdy Boutique, Susan's forte is fashion and frills, not murder and mayhem, so she calls on the two people she trusts the most--Wesley Grissom, a detective with whom she hopes to rekindle a past relationship, and her assistant manager, A. K. Williams, a forty year old cougar who's game for anything. But when Susan uncovers a conspiracy, she finds herself in over her head and dead wrong as to the killer. If you like your mystery with a dash of humor and a can-do heroine, this one's for you.
In l890, the country isn't ready for a woman doctor, but don't tell that to Rachel Moore. Shunned by male patients at her home in the Cascades and later denied employment by Charity Hospital in New Orleans, she holds firm in her conviction that she can make a difference. While volunteering her services to an orphanage in the French Quarter, terrifying dreams and visions warn of danger. Husband, Gabe, tries to calm her fears, suggesting the city, steeped in the occult, has fueled her fantasies. But the premonitions are more deeply rooted than either suspect. Tragedy strikes. Haunted by an evil presence, Rachel returns home to search for answers. Can she put the pieces of her life together? Will she ever again find the courage to care?
While beautiful and wealthy Lindsey Vidrine pushes for answers in the mysterious disappearance of her husband, Sam, David and Benjamin are only too eager to fill her loneliness. She fears for her life when an investigation implicates each of them as a suspect. Will Lindsey lose her heart to the one who truly loves her... or fall victim to the killer's maniacal plan?
DEA agent, Trent Harrington, poses as a writer to investigate claims of drug smuggling in the bayous of Louisiana. Within weeks, his informant lies dead. Laney Gravelle, refuses to believe her father's death is an accident and launches her own investigation. To protect her and his case, Trent convinces Laney to let him help. What he doesn't count on is falling in love. Their tumultuous adventure erupts into a romantic relationship, but Laney is in love with a lie--a writer who doesn't exist. Can she love the real Trent Harrington, the agent involved with her father's murder?
Sacrificed by his father, a disfigured infant plunges down a snowy mountain. A trapper rescues the boy who grows to young manhood, accompanied by the wolf that nurtured him and a dark anomaly--a fragment of that bond born to twins--the SHADOW OF THE SOUL. Facing ridicule and humiliation from the town folks, Matthew strives to reunite his family. Then disaster strikes. Will Matthew risk his life to save the man who abandoned him?
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come. Psalms 71:18
If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stark Munro Letters. Contextualized in both medical and popular publishing, literary analysis reveals that even supposedly medico-scientific concepts such as orthodoxy and quackery evolve not in elite laboratories and bourgeois medical societies but in the rough-and-tumble of the public sphere, a view that acknowledges the considerable, and often underrated, influence of language on medical practices.
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