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            Author's Website - JODY LaGRECA

High society of the Victorian Age was as fraught with hypocrisy as modern times. Enter this fascinating era in New England and witness a saga of forbidden love, the standards of high society and their paradox unfold in Afternoon Tea, an engaging tale written by J.R. LaGreca. Get a glimpse of a glittering, yet cruel world where image and status are everything.

With a bundle of roses in one hand and a walking cane in the other, Lawrence Gray, an elderly gentleman, braves the cold Northeastern winter as he makes his way to Saint James Cemetery. There, he offers the flowers to his wife who passed away forty years ago. Lawrence’s devotion to his long-dead wife elicits curiosity from Meg Bailey, a neighbor who spies on him from her kitchen window every morning. Meg’s curiosity hits a peak when town historian, Fanny Brund, invites her for afternoon tea and reveals the mystery surrounding the Grays. In a bid to uncover the truth behind Lawrence Gray’s guilt over his wife’s untimely death, Fanny warps back to the year 1895 — only to unravel a secret that will change Meg’s life forever. . .

How will Meg handle the harbingers of the past? Can she convince Lawrence he is not to blame for his wife’s death with a clear conscience? Will Lawrence ever let go of his guilty burden and live the rest of his days in peace? Discover the answers as you take a refreshing break to indulge in a delightful Afternoon Tea.

Having proven her mastery in the field of poetry, award-winning poet J.R. LaGreca dips her eloquent pen in the fiction genre and crafts a relentlessly riveting novel; one that paints a live, breathing portrait about high society of the Victorian Age, the Gilded Age, Roaring Twenties and beyond, and the irony of it all. Afternoon Tea is one unforgettably engrossing read; a masterful work by one of fiction’s most promising new talents.

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Author's Website - JODY LaGRECA                           Historical Fiction 

                           


Suburban Weird is a riveting saga of lies, lust, love and betrayal. Courtney appears to have it all -- a loving lawyer for a husband, her mother-in-law's extraordinary estate for them to live in while saving for a house. Her bliss becomes overshadowed when her husband's older brother lures her into a whirlwind of desire and deception. Witness the haunting tale of how one woman becomes a pawn in a game of seduction.

Set in scenic Bay Shore, Long Island, Suburban Weird follows the exploits of Courtney Gold, a forty-year-old beauty. Courtney becomes apprehensive when her future mother-in-law, Edith Stein, turns out to be the eccentric woman her Aunt Bessie warned her about in the past.

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         Author's Website - JODY LaGRECA                 Historical Fiction 

With Great Gatsby grandeur, formal tables are set in the yard of the Wellington estate in Great Neck, Long Island for Margo Wellington’s Engagement Party to Stephan Randall. Jealousy brews when Margo’s Cousin Walter brings Chloe Winsler, a beautiful singer, and she and Stephan talk incessantly throughout dinner. Margo becomes enraged when she spies Chloe give Stephan her card — which he discreetly slips inside his suit jacket.

Stephan insists it was for him to make dinner reservations for them at The Wexley — the supper club where Chloe sings. In a heated argument Stephan storms off in the middle of their engagement party, while Margo is rushed to the hospital for a twisted ankle from wearing stilettos on the lawn.

           Author's Website - MARLA FAIR

Growing up on an 18th century North Carolina plantation, the daughter of a British Army officer, and Indian Fighter, Miriam Foxwell's life was well-ordered, she knew what was expected of her, and what she could expect - until one day when her elder sister Kate told her that their crazy old grandfather had an animal locked in his studio... an animal that walked on two legs, with rich copper skin and deep brown eyes the color of silt in her garden; an animal that was wounded and dangerous and wore beads and feathers in his long shining hair...An animal named COPPERHEAD. From the moment she met him, nothing would ever be the same.... The novel's portraits of life in both Colonial America and 18th century England ring true. "Publisher's Weekly."

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            Author's Website - MARLA FAIR 

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 Phoebe Greenway never imagined when she landed her dream job as an historic interpreter in an 1800's house in Ohio, that her fascination with one of the home’s former occupants would change her destiny. One stormy night while locking the museum, Phoebe is startled by a figure on the stair. Her pursuit of it teaches her the truth of the old adage, ‘Be careful what you wish for… You just might get it.’ Spanning one hundred and sixty years and the length and breadth of America, GOODNIGHT ROBINSON is a tale of an impossible love set against the back-drop of 21st century Ohio and 19th century California.

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          Author's Website - MARLA FAIR 

It is May 1777 and Charlotte Burington's life is in danger. Her covert activities for Washington's army have been discovered and the result will be either imprisonment or death. Desperate to save those her arrest threatens to expose, she sends her trusted maid, Jennifer Harrison, on a mission to deliver a packet of letters to her French Rebel to warn him. Accepting them in trust, Jennifer sets out for the town of Darby, Pennsylvania, the headqaurters of the Darby Rebels...but never arrives. Taking place six months after the events in My French Rebel: Book One of the General's Daughter, this sweeping tale is set against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the spring of 1777 in war-torn Colonial America. The Flowering Thorn is a tale of past sins remembered, of present ones forgotten, of greed and a deep seated need for revenge.

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        Author's Website - K. CELESTE BRYAN         Historical Romance 

Penniless when she arrives in Norfolk, her mother and father drowned at sea, Raine Brinsley would give anything to return home to her grandfather in Maine. When Derek Stafford, owner of a large plantation, offers a solution to her dilemma, she’s stunned, if not outraged. She’d prefer to fulfill the contract to have his child and forget about him and his self-serving scheme. But she hadn’t counted on the decadently-delicious passion he’d awakened in her. And she hadn’t counted on the spirit of his dead wife leaving her cryptic messages or the evil machinations of his brother, Lyman, who will stop at nothing to hold the title of Stafford House in his hands . . . including murder.

A rogue cccustomed to getting what he wants, Derek’s only desire was to father an heir for Stafford House, thus securing his future. He didn’t count on the Scottish lass with dark green eyes to interfere with his well-laid plans. But after one night in her arms, guilt, not to mention the loss of his heart, became his penance. Now he’d do anything to get her back, anything to quench the hunger and passion tormenting his soul.