Family Fortunes
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As farms fail all over Victorian England, the Grenville family, hereditary heirs to the ancient earldom of Felton, must do the unthinkable, and invest in the world of commerce. But as they turn their tiny shipping line into a huge conglomerate, they learn that Castlefield Shipping is full of thieving rogues who are trying to to defraud them of their investment and take over the company.
Against this backdrop is the story of John and Caroline Grenville, son and daughter of the 10th Earl of Felton.
John falls in love with the fiery Princess Sabine of Saxony. Even though she is about to marry his brutish Prussian cousin Kaspar, Sabine returns his love -- but the wedding has been arranged, and must go forward.
Caroline is also faced with a doomed love affair. She falls in love with an actor -- a profession quite unsuitable for a daughter of the nobility -- and eventually marries him, only to find that he has a deadly secret which could kill them both.
As doomed love, corporate skullduggery, diplomatic intrigue and Victorian morality all combine, the action moves from England to Chile, to Prussia and to Africa, as John struggles to protect his family's fortune and Caroline strives to find happiness and fulfillment.
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Vienna Days
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Vienna, 1889
Peter Keller has it all: a secure career, a fiancé of impeccable family, and the joy of living in one of the world's most beautiful cities.
Then he meets a group of irreverent, seditious artists and a Jewish refugee -- the mysterious, doomed Astrid -- and all his beliefs and principles are changed forever.
Set against the turbulent background of the revolutionary Secessionist movement, Vienna Days is the story of a man's discovery of his talent, his fall from grace, his endless search for the truth, and his final frightening discovery.
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Out of print.