Louise de Freneuse was a most remarkable woman. Stunningly beautiful, and courageous, she had charm integrity, and an aristocratic indifference to scandal. Many men sought her. And though she was married another, she gave all the passion of her tempe...
Best-selling author Evelyn Eaton (Quietly My Captain Waits, 1940) wrote a series of light-hearted stories about her life in England, France, and Canada in the years between the wars. Those stories, published in The New Yorker, form the basis for two ...
Go Ask the River is the haunting story of the female Chinese poet Hung Tu, tracing her rise from Flower-in-the-Mist to Official Hostess at the court of the governors of the Silk City, and her love affair with the poet Yuan Chen, against the backdrop ...
When Paul de Morpain, a prisoner-of-war in New England, hears of a plan to send an expedition against the French fortress at Louisbourg, he decides he will do whatever he can to warn the governor. It is 1744 - a dangerous time to attempt a 500-mile j...