Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: Black Rose Writing
ISBN-10: 1612960227
Type: Fiction
Pages: 227
Copyright: April 2011
ISBN-13: 9781612960227
An intrepid couple solves mysteries around the world during the mid-nineteenth century.
Shipwrecked on a Brazilian beach in the year 1834, two couples stumble onto a plantation where they find a knife in the owner’s back.
Harrowing encounters with Indians, escaped slaves and ruthless landlords conspiring to assassinate eight-year old future leader, Dom Pedro II, lead to a dangerous transfusion to save the cholera-stricken young prince.
One of the castaways holds the cure in a tiny jar of red. He could save his own life, revive the prince or rescue his wife from the conspirators in exchange for the vessel, but there’s only enough blood for one.
Excerpt
William held the cure in a tiny jar of red. He could save his own life, revive the prince or rescue his wife from the conspirators, but there was only enough blood for one choice.
Ireland 1947. Seven weeks of relentless snow. Guard Eamon Foley is searching for a missing child.
At Toby Appleyard’s farm, he discovers the kitchen littered with dead cats. And the skeletal remains of a woman. Upstairs, Toby is dead in his bed.
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
