Jane Ritzenthaler

The Hope Chest

1 - Amy (Oct-2013)
2 - Robbie (Oct-2013)
3 - Dorothy (Feb-2014)

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  Devil's Fire
  

  • Oct-2013
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  The ruins of a 300 year old hunting lodge on Martha's Vineyard, an ancient book of magic and three compelling men vying for her affections propel Jennifer from her mundane life as a teacher in the Chicago projects on journey searching for clues about...

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  Amy
  

  • Oct-2013
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  The Hope Chest - 1
  

  It was April, 1899, and 20 year old Amy Stewart was sailing from Scotland to begin a new life in America. Her best friend Sarah had died in childbirth, leaving a physician-husband and three children in New York City. Dr. McCurdy had asked her to help...

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  Robbie
  

  • Oct-2013
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  The Hope Chest - 2
  

  Book Two of the Hope Chest series follows the lives of Dr. Andrew McCurdy's family in Prescott, Arizona from the Great War through the Roaring Twenties, concluding at the end of 1929. His wife Amy sees her dream of Hope House, a facility ministering ...

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  Dorothy
  

  • Feb-2014
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  The Hope Chest - 3
  

  Book Three of the Hope Chest series follows the lives of the McCurdy family in Prescott, Arizona from 1933 to 1948. Dr. Robbie McCurdy has continued the medical practice begun by his father, Andrew, at the turn of the century. He and his wife Helen a...

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  The Barbara
  

  • Jul-2015
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  Book Four, the final volume of the Hope Chest series, follows the lives of the McCurdy family in Prescott, Arizona from 1948 to 1972. The final chapter of the saga of the McCurdy family begins with Dorothy and Phil on their honeymoon in Trieste, Ital...

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  Green Ice
  

  • Sep-2016
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  When it happened the third night in a row, she knew it couldn’t be a dream. As Andrea awoke at 3:00 A.M. in a cold sweat with her heart pounding, she remembered the images that had been thrust into her sleep: her twin sister, Alicia, sitting at a r...

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  The Lost Epistle
  

  • Mar-2019
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  Qumran, Israel, February, 2017: An international team of archaeologists find a cave that previously contained Dead Sea Scrolls, the first such discovery in 60 years. Dubbing it Cave 12, they declared it had been looted, and no scrolls were found....

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  Operation Edelweiss
  

  • Aug-2020
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  Book Two of the OSS Files series continues with the story of Commander Bill Kemp, a Navy pilot, and his new wife, Carly. A freelance journalist in 2015, Carly was following the sounds of Big Band music in the basement hallways of the Del Coronado hot...

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  Ballydunmore Castle
  

  • Sep-2020
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  Standing on a bluff overlooking Dingle Bay in Ireland, the ruins of 16th century Ballydunmore Castle yield new owner Louise Crandall from America more than a tourist destination for The Widows' Travel Club. It provides a challenge to her concept of t...

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  A Taste For Murder
  

  • Feb-2021
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  A winery in Napa Valley. A dead gossip columnist. And dozens of possible suspects. Photojournalist Kate McCracken has returned to her childhood home and is tasked with discovering which potential subject of the blogger's future exposé was respon...

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  A Taste For Revenge
  

  • May-2021
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  A bloody murder. A politician. A playboy son. And family secrets. Investigative journalist Kate McCracken returns in Book Two of the Kate McCracken Mysteries Series. She and her former teenage heartthrob, who is now with the Sheriff's Department, att...

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  The Body in the Church Pew
  

  • Sep-2021
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  The war is over. But murder and intrigue are not.Retired Navy pilot Bill Kemp and his time-traveling wife, Carly, are swept up into the world of the Nazi war crimes trial and plundered Jewish family art and valuables. Bill is once again sent by the f...

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  The Ivy Close
  

  • Jan-2023
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  When genealogist Trisha Grey decides to travel to the Cotswolds in England to explore her own family tree, she discovers more than just names and dates at a 14th century manor house. Seeing a young woman in 1700s clothing leaving love notes in an ivy...

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