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|  | | Briars: The House of Heirs
It is always exciting to me when readers tell me personally, write or e-mail me to express their enjoyment of and appreciation for one of my novels. Especially, when it has taken several years to complete the work. All the while the book is in progress, I wonder if readers will find enough mystery, enough intrigue, enough concern for my characters to hold their interest until the end. Then finally, when readers express to me their deep affection for my people and the happiness they have derived from their reading experience, I am deeply touched and graciously rewarded for my efforts.
On November 15, 1864, Briars is occupied by a battle seasoned detachment of Sherman's Union Army led by young, inexperienced Lieutenant Shane Alexander Moss on his first field command. Entrusted to him in Sherman's own hand are written orders similar to those of other burning teams. They are to burn every structure within five miles of wherever they are billeted for the night before rendezvousing for Sherman's March to the Sea. Essentially alone and unprotected in the only occupied house for miles around, the Heirs women experience numbing, gruesome tragedy after occupying soldiers turn on | |  | | The Intangibles File: A Gathering of Heirs
It is 1870 and peculiar events with ghostly overtones are taking place inside Atlanta, Georgia's exclusive Briarcrest Hotel. Nobody associated with the hotel wants to talk about them.
Jeremy Carter, the hotel's young desk clerk -- though warned by his superiors to ignore unsettling "happenings" -- watchfully and secretly records each incident as it occurs in a spare hotel registration ledger, a file he calls: Intangibles. When absentee owner Morgana Heirs Moss returns from Virginia, favoring her investment with a first inspection, having arrived without reservations, she engages Carter in an immediate an on-going conflict, finally demanding to see his Intangibles file. Therein, she discovers multiple witnesses' testimonies to bizarre incidents attributable to a | |  | | They Will Soar on Wings Like Eagles
When young Michael O'Donnell, an immigrant Irish minister and second cousin to Morgana Heirs Moss arrives at Briarcrest Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia on a mission embarked upon in Ireland, he refuses to submit to Morgana's authoritative influence.
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