It was in desperation that Edith Finchley wrote to her niece, Charlotte Broward, in New York. Not once had Charlotte returned to Ashmont, the Finchley mansion in Braves Landing, where she had been raised by her aunt. She had left Canada immediately a...
First published in 1958, The Salvager is both a narrative history of Great Lakes shipping disasters of 1880â€"1950 and the life story of Captain Thomas Reid, who operated one of the region’s largest salvaging companies during that era. The tr...
It was early summer on Lake Mohican, and The Great Western Construction Company’s Pumped Storage Project was in full swing. The purpose of the project was to provide better power resources and less pollution, but for the townspeople of Channel City...
Jack Murphy was made for laughter, for breaking women's hearts -- and for sailing ships on the Great Lakes. God-fearing, righteous, stern-faced men, the Murphys for generations had married God-fearing, righteous, stern-faced women...until Mike Mu...
It was like a dream come true for white-haired Owen Kildare, confined to wheelchair, when he first set eyes on his great-niece, Irish-featured Kitty Kildare. She was almost a carbon copy of her grandmother, Owen's beloved sister, who had eloped d...
Homecoming. . . Gray-eyed Sara Winslow was not a great beauty but she made the most of what she had -- and what she had above all was brains. As a young girl, growing up in Riverbend, Michigan, she had been ambitious, determined to make a success o...