Bøger af Mercer Addison

It is 1918 Manhattan where wealth is king. Backstage at the Joyeux Theater, rich playboy Jonathan Drake wakes up in a pool of blood. A bloody knife is in his hand and his lover, Zelda DeLane, the star of Foyle's Follies, is dead beneath him. Jonathan, naked, grabs Zelda's cape and escapes the grasping hands of the stage manager and runs for his life. Liberty Fitzgerald, a nurse for the City's Department of Health, and on her way to work, finds a man hiding on a tenement rooftop wearing a gossamer cape and nothing else. Although, fearful that he's mental and might harm her, she is forced by her conscience to stop and inquire. Is he well? Does he need help? Jonathan talks Liberty into helping him find the real killer. But the real killer proves elusive, and time is running out for Jonathan who has the police and Sing Sing prison closing in.

When Mae Jameison's husband is killed, she is left to keep their cotton farm producing, raise their small child and fight the great depression hammering the country. Two men enter her life and vie for her love, the local cotton mill owner, and a stranger, a hobo riding the rails. Mae has to decide if she can overcome her love for her dead husband and chose the right man. Can comfort and security win out over determined grit? This story is about a community of people dealing with racial issues, losing their farms, their dignity, and regaining their souls.

Even Nectar is Poison Forced to flee Ireland on a ruse created by his nefarious brother, Donald McShane lands in Manhattan. After he is cleared of wrong doing back home, Donald sends for his wife, and his two young children, a son, and a daughter. They are sailing to him on the Titanic. When the ship sinks it opens up a streamer trunk full of mysteries, and one of those mysteries is what Donald discovers when he goes to Halifax to claim his wife's body. Is Donald's family dead or alive? Olivia Marsh, a suffragette returning home on the Titanic saves a little girl during the sinking when she is tossed over the Titanic's railing. Once back home in Manhattan, Olivia is caught up in trying to figure out if the silent child was thrown overboard to save her or kill her and she concludes it's the latter. This is a drama of family betrayal, high society snobbery, forced child labor, gangs of orphan boys, suffragettes, but most of all, it is about love.

Scotland, 1306. With her clan decimated by Edward I the King of England and his army, Scottish maiden Deirdre Brodie becomes embroiled in the war between England and Scotland. Kidnapped by the English Earl of Wrothbury, called the spawn of the devil, she is forced into an unwanted marriage and has a child by him. But Deirdre's heart belongs to one man, Richard de Laci, Comte de Strasbourg, a French warlord who tried to save her from Wrothbury's evil and the King's clutches. Banned from England as a traitor, Richard returns to Scotland bringing an army of mercenaries to help Robert the Bruce the king of Scotland fight his war. Deirdre's strong fealty to Robert the Bruce, leads to her being imprisoned in a cage by King Edward I, and that cage hangs from the walls of an English township. As death nears for Deirdre, a pardon is issued, but it falls into the wrong hands. Richard happens upon Deirdre in the cage. He vows to do battle with Wrothbury, find Deirdre's daughter, the pardon, and set her free. But can Richard de Laci save Deirdre from the cage or does she save herself.