Deanna Madden

1888, Whitechapel. A woman wakes in a dark alley where a murder has just taken place. She can't remember her name or how she got there. Only later does she learn the man in the alley with her was Jack the Ripper. Soon she realizes she has been thrust more than a century into the past. And what of the fate of her daughter who was with her when this catastrophic timeslip occurred? She can only hope she too was not transported to the past. Striving to keep the secret that she is from another time, she tries to adapt to a world that is foreign to her while desperately trying to figure out how to return to her own time. As the grisly murders pile up, Inspector Abberline of Scotland Yard wants to know who she is and how she is connected to the Ripper. To her surprise, she finds herself falling in love with the shrewd detective, but if she stays in his time, she may be the Ripper's next victim.

Gaslight and Fog

Nightmares provide a frightening portal to the past for a young woman on the brink of adulthood in this time-slip novel about courage in the face of unspeakable evil. In the summer after graduation Jodie Graham is plagued by dreams of a city with cobblestone streets where she follows an old woman through early morning fog. During the day she works at a pizzeria in Chicago and hangs out with friends while waiting for college to start, but in the dead of night her dreams transport her to another time and place where she senses something terrible is about to happen. At first she doesn't know what threatens the city with the cobblestone streets and the people who live there. The old woman she follows through the fog wants her to save a young boy, and there are other children who need saving as well. But how is she to save them in an unfamiliar city where danger lurks all around? Only when the dreams grow more ominous does she realize what threatens is the horror of the Holocaust. But why is she dreaming about the Holocaust, and who in her own time will believe she is thrown back into the past when she dreams? As she scrambles for answers, the danger escalates, and it becomes increasingly urgent not only to save the children but to figure out how to stop the dreams before she becomes one more victim of the Holocaust.

Hour of the Wolf

A Novel of Ancient Greece

The World Beyond

The Box

Leaving Sutter's Bend

Helena Landless and her twin brother Neville travel from Ceylon to England after the death of their stepfather. In the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham they become entangled in the mysterious disappearance of young Edwin Drood one stormy night. Did hot-headed Neville murder him in a fit of temper, as Edwin's grief-stricken uncle insists? Could he have accidentally drowned following a night of carousing or even taken his own life? Or did he fall victim to an enemy no one suspects? In a story that ranges from the picturesque quaintness of an English cathedral town where not everyone may be as respectable as they appear to the dark streets and seedy back alleys of Victorian London, a determined young woman sets out to prove her brother's innocence by discovering what really happened that fateful night. Based on Charles Dickens' last, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Helena Landless re-tells the story from the point of view of a young woman with secrets of her own caught up in the events surrounding the mysterious disappearance of Edwin Drood.

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