In her latest impeccably researched book, RITA and Spur Award–winning Kelly brilliantly captures both the beauty and brutality of life in the American West in the late nineteenth century while also thoughtfully and skillfully illuminating the terrible dilemmas and tragedies confronting Native Americans who simply want the U.S. While not everyone in the tribal community is happy about Elizabeth’s presence, Kaya does his best to help her adapt to her new and, she hopes, temporary surroundings. For example, the “wild Indians” dime-novels authors often cast as villains are nothing like the Nez Perce Elizabeth encounters when she is accidentally swept up by a scouting party fleeing from the U.S. The first lesson Elizabeth Ann Everett learns when she arrives in Yellowstone National Park with her family is that you can’t believe everything you read in a book. I’m assuming it will be out in early 2024. Brendan Series, this one titled The Unlikely Gunwharf Rats. I just finished writing Book 4 of the St. You’ll want both of these books in your library, in book or ebook form. It’s a novel I will always be proud of, for many reasons.

One Good Turn will be available to readers in November. It’s a novel of redemption, and an exploration of what 'glorious' war can do to the most vulnerable – women and children. That brings us to One Good Turn, the sequel to LLM, written a few years later. Libby’s London Merchant was great fun to write, but there were some readers who felt that Libby chose the wrong man. Duke of Knaresborough, former major in the British Army, who fancies Libby, too. Enter Anthony Cook, a shy country doctor, who pines for Libby.Įnter also Benedict Nesbitt, a.k.a. Her mother is a widow now, and she and Libby are living on the good will of an uncle. LLM introduces some interesting characters: a charming lass who spent her young life following the drum with her parents in Spain with the British Army. It is available right now in book or ebook format.

I wrote it originally for Signet – now Penguin Putnam – and was able to get the rights back last year. There’s good reading for you right now, with the re-issuing of Lobby’s London Merchant, one of my earliest Regencies.

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