“Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery” from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger and The Mammoth Cheese (Entertainment Weekly).A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen...
In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-year old beauty in an elegant blue dress makes her way between shadow and lamp light. A potter's assistant by day and dress lodger by night, Gustine se...
10th day of the 1st moon, 17th year of King Chinp'yong It is the Hour of the Pig when the whole palace is settling down to sleep and only the watchmen and astronomers are awake. I have not had a chance during the festival season to sit at my favorit...
As the book opens, the town is joyously celebrating the birth of the Frank Eleven: eleven babies simultaneously born to Manda and James Frank after fertility treatments. But as autumn progresses and the babies weaken, the community seeks to redeem it...
As a child growing up in Depression-era rural Virginia, Eddie Alleys quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his mothers witchcraft. But when he's visited by a writer and glamorous photographer researching American folklore for the WPA, the spell of hi...