Editing for Donna Fletcher Crow – Celtic Cross Series
In Part I, Scotland: The Struggle for a Nation, Mary and Gareth’s quest to solve Scotland’s oldest riddle takes them through 4 turbulent epochs – the time of St. Columba arriving on Iona in the Sixth Century; the era of Kenneth mac Alpin uniting the Scots and Picts in the Ninth Century; Queen Margaret bringing civility and manners to the nation in the Eleventh Century; and William Wallace and Robert the Bruce completing freedom’s work in the Fourteenth Century.
In Part II, Ireland, Mary and Gareth travel to a troubles-torn Ireland where, in six epochs, they experience the pain and the grandeur of the settlement of Northern Ireland, the Cromwellian war, the Battle of the Boyne, the union of parliaments, the great famine, and the birth of Northern Ireland.
Lord Danvers Investigates series
From Book 1: Lord Charles Danvers, still mourning his lost love Charlotte, hopes to escape from his ghosts at the gala coming-of-age celebrations for the son of his oldest friend. All is jubilation and proper respectability until the evening is shattered by a brutal murder. The police are quick to point to a quarrelsome farmer, but Danvers has his doubts. Is the real culprit much closer to home? And does Danvers owe the greater loyalty to an old friend or to the truth? Then, Danver is even more unsettled by the entrance of the alluring Lady Antonia Hoover.
The first in the Lord Danvers Investigates series, A Most Inconvenient Death is a Victorian true-crime novel The Stanfield Hall Murders were the sensation they are portrayed to be and the elaborate coming of age celebrations and the ensuing dramatic trial are all recorded history.
Elizabeth and Richard Literary Suspense series
From Book 1: October 1984, the New England hillsides are ablaze with redgold autumn. Elizabeth is beginning her academic career and recently widowed Richard is stuck in the family business. They should be able to help each other but their meeting strikes sparks and raises old ghosts, possibly even the ghost of Richard’s dead wife. When Elizabeth finds an academic coup within her grasp for her thesis on the beloved American novelist Elswyth Thane, Richard stubbornly throws up barriers, but why? Rudyard Kipling, William Beebe, Charles Lindberg, Edna Ferber and a host of celebrities from an age past fill the pages of Elswyth Thane’s letters, but where is Elizabeth to find clues to the mystery haunting Richard?
A nostalgic return to an earlier, now-vanished time, The Flame Ignites charmingly evokes a long-distance relationship between a young woman just testing her wings and a celebrated American novelist. But what about the smoldering relationship between Elizabeth and Richard?
From Book 1: Catherine Perronet’s world is shaken when she learns Charles Wesley is engaged to marry another. After all, Catherine’s initials were on the list John Wesley gave to his brother listing acceptable matrimonial candidates.
And that’s not all that’s wrong in Catherine’s world. As teacher at a Methodist Society school in London, she sees her brother beaten while preaching in the open air, her favorite pupil forced to leave school because of his family’s poverty, and a prisoner receive his death sentence in Newgate Prison. Catherine undertakes the joys and hardships of a circuit-ride preaching tour to Canterbury where a French invasion threatens then must face the terrors of the Great London Earthquake before coming to an understanding of the gentle calling God has for her.
Editing for Peter Joseph Swanson – Vampires of Rome
In 16th century Rome, young Giotto gradually remembers how he became a vampire and how his new life became magically entangled with history and two of the world’s most ancient kings. Memories surface, bringing insight about his own lost family. And all the while, he drinks free blood at the underground tavern and befriends a gallant barmaid, both of them destined to discover the blood’s true wicked purpose and source.
Editing for Jean Harkin, Ginny Hansen, and more. Beta-reading for Aaron Paul Lazar, Uvi Poznanski and more.
Sheila Deeth: author, editor and book reviewer 