Sub-title: The Double Life of Southern Belle Spy Elizabeth Van Lew. A Civil War novel based on a true story.
As the Civil War slogged on, an underground Unionist movement flourished in the heart of the Confederacy. An unlikely leader skillfully directed this clandestine group and became General Ulysses S. Grant’s spy in Richmond. Surrounded by a cadre of “slaves,” secretly freed, and a determined group of Union supporters, Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy and well connected member of Richmond’s elite, risked everything to help save the Union.
Based on an incredible true story, MISS LIZZIE’S WAR, recounts the intrigue involved in Elizabeth's double life, including her scheme to plant a spy in the home of Jefferson Davis, her secret romance with a Union prisoner, terrifying flights to freedom engineered by Elizabeth and her network for slaves and escaped Union prisoners - all during ongoing Confederate surveillance, investigations and arrests of Unionists
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.
Fifth Book of the Southern Swallow Series. Nan Ya and his crew take a final adventure into a mythical Chinese universe and become entangled in court intrigue.
