Murder in the Merchant's Hall is the second in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series set in England in the early 1580s. Rosamond, the estranged foster daughter of Susanna, Lady Appleton (the...

This collection of Kathy Lynn Emerson's historical mysteries featuring Diana Spaulding, journalist for a New York scandal sheet, as the amateur detective, contains four complete novels and three short...

In this unique compilation of 115 essays written between 2011 and 2021, Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of over sixty traditionally-published books in a variety of genres and under several names, writes about...

Spending three weeks in rural Maine listening to the sound of bagpipes isn't 12-year-old Kim Hanlon's idea of fun, but her father has signed up to attend classes in playing that instrument at the estate...

A Who's Who of Tudor Women contains over 2300 mini-biographies of women who lived at least part of their lives between 1485 and 1603. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the maiden name of the subject...

Publishers Weekly: "Julia's recovery . . . parallels a deeper change—adaptation to a new kind of family life and eventual friendship with Grace, her "beastly" cousin. Julia's realization that she has...

Twelve-year-old Katie Brant is used to getting everything her own way. She lives with her grandparents, two uncles, and her Aunt Mattie in a farm/boardinghouse in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains...

"Emerson makes her come alive without contriving events or dialogue." The Book Report Aimed at young readers, Nellie Bly is the story of the groundbreaking investigative reporter who was born Elizabeth...

Together for the first time—the first three novels and five short stories in Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down series, hailed as "a solid bet for historical mystery fans" (Publishers Weekly). Sixteenth-century...

This new edition of How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries is the author's personal take on writing historical mysteries, based on over forty years in print as a writer of fiction and nonfiction and...

Following Volume One (2021), here is the second in this three-volume collection. Together for the first time are books four through seven in Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down series, hailed by Publishers...

In 1554, scores of English Protestants fled into exile on the Continent after Mary Tudor took the throne and returned England to Catholicism. Sir Henry Ingram and his daughter Cordell were among them,...

Kerry Odell and her younger brother Lyle are not enthusiastic about spending the next six months in rural western Maine. It seems like a pretty dismal place, especially in March, and means entering a...

Set in Colonial Rhode Island in the mid-seventeenth century, Shalla is the fictionalized story of a real person, one of the children of Rhode Island founder Samuel Gorton, who was known as "the New England...

The Nostalgia Trilogy The three novels in this omnibus edition were first published as category romances in the 1990s. Collected here for the first time, they provide a glimpse into the not too distant...

Love and Murder in the Time of the Tudors: Two Novels of Romantic Suspense set in sixteenth-century England Unquiet Hearts was first published in 1994 for the Harper Monogram line. It is 1562 and Thomasine...

"Someday, Kristy, if you stay as sweet and innocent as you are now, you're going to make some lucky guy a great wife." That's what the boy Kristy Russell is crazy about tells her. Insulted, sixteen-year-old...

The Waycross Springs Trilogy: The three novels in this omnibus edition were all previously published as category romances by Bantam Loveswept and all three include characters who later appear in the author's...

These four romance novels, originally published between 1989 and 1997, have been newly edited by the author and are now collected for the first time in this omnibus edition. In Cloud Castles, originally...

Following Volumes One and Two, here is the third in this three-volume collection. Together for the first time are books eight through ten in Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down series, hailed by Publishers...

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England, revised in 2023, was originally published in 1996 as part of the Writers Digest Books Everyday Life series. It contains chapters on: Clothes...

Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe is the first in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series, set in the early 1580s in England and Muscovy. It's a spinoff from Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down Mysteries....

The three short stories and a novella that comprise The Valentine Veilleux Mysteries feature professional photographer Valentine Veilleux as an amateur sleuth. Val specializes in creating calendars for...

Lady Appleton's World: The Complete Short Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories first published between 1999 and 2015 and newly edited by the author. They feature the adventures of Susanna,...