Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Martin Tafft, driven to make Peerless Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that create film magic—and don't end when the camera stop...
All I Do Is Dream Of YouBorn and bred on the mean streets of Chicago, Kate Finney has few illusions about love. A handsome city swell like Alex English sure isn't looking to marry a girl who spends her nights telling fortunes and dancing the hootchy-kootchy at the Fair—and she isn't any man's toy...
Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Mart Tafft, driven to make Peerless Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that create film magic—and don't end when the camera stops ...
Mercy Allcutt, Boston Brahmin, wants to experience life in all its grittiness. How better than by working for a down-on-his-luck PI in 1926 Hollywood? Once she discovers what PI actually stands for, she knows Mr. Ernest Templeton is the boss for her. Raised in the ivory tower of proper Boston, wh...
Young widow Maggie Bright had her hands full raising a baby and running a farm with no one to help except her lazy drunk of a hired hand. The last thing she needed was a bullet-ridden, half-dead stranger riding into her front yard. As she nursed Jubal back to life, Maggie realized that this encha...
In the tradition of Pamela Morsi and Jill Barnett, Alice Duncan blends humor into this first book in a series of quirky and sweet love stories set around the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.Let Me Call You SweetheartRose Ellen Gilhooley didn't get to be a star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for nothi...
Daisy Gumm Majesty is a spiritualist and con artist. When she comes across the phantom "haunting" Mrs Bissel's basement she thinks it may be the missing heiress Marianna Wagner, desperately fleeing her unhappy home, so what should she do?
A sweet southern belle is wooed by a suave photographer in this second book in a charming series set around the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Belle Monroe has already scandalized her family down to its proud Virginia roots by choosing to work as a nanny up north rather than languish in genteel pove...
Marigold Pottersby tries to hang on to her father's failing copper mine when silent-movie producer Martin Tafft asks to use it in his new film. Realizing a rental fee is the answer to her prayers, Mari agrees to filming, but refuses a role. That is until Easterner Tony Ewing, the son of the studi...
He was everything she ever wanted--and could not touch... By day she was Claire Montague, prim, demure housekeeper of Partington Place. By dark of night she wrote the wildly popular dime novels that had made frontiersman Tuscaloosa Tom Pardee a household name. Suddenly her new employer, the he...
Welcome to sunny Pasadena, California, just a stone's throw from Hollywood. The 1920s are in full roar. Prohibition isn't stopping anybody, and Daisy Gumm Majesty is getting by the best way she knows how - catering to the rich and famous as a medium who put the con in conjuror.
“I notice you say they think he did it. Does this mean that you don’t?” “Haven’t made up my mind yet,” said Phil, looking less nervous and more policeman-like. “We have to sift through all the evidence.” “What about Mr. Hartland?” I demanded. “He lied about not being there, and he had a...
That door led to a bleak-looking corridor, along which he proceeded to lead me. When we got to the first door on the right of the corridor, he said, "Prepare yourself. It's quite noisy in here." And he opened the door. He hadn't been kidding. The room into which that door led was enormous, and it...
She’d been crying, though. Still was, for that matter, and I envisioned my shoulders turning stiff with glue made from salt tears and bread flour. I hugged her. “It’ll all work out, Edie. I’m sure Quincy didn’t do anything wrong.” “Of course he didn’t!” She sounded angry that I’d even...
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We all went to church in the morning, and that part was all right. So was lunch, which was pork ribs and liberty cabbage. Oh, very well, it was sauerkraut, but that was German, and I still called it liberty cabbage, even though the war had been over for several years. Anyhow, pork ribs, which Aun...
Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of it to do at the time. I’d tried to drum up business a few weeks earlier by placing an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times, but Ernie had been furious with me for doing so. Which made no sense, since the ad had worked. Why, even Mrs. Persephone Chalmers had h...
I was dying to ask him about his son in the speakeasy but didn’t dare. If Sam ever found out I’d blabbed, he’d have my hide. Our shiny new Chevrolet didn’t look quite as out of place in such an elegant setting as our old 1909 Model T Ford had, but a Pierce Arrow or a big Packard would have ...
After promising myself that I wouldn't, I'd managed to conclude positively that it was Marianne Wagner in Mrs. Bissel's basement. My brain didn't seem to have room in it for consideration of another possibility. Was this my renowned spiritualistic instinct rearing its precognitive head? No....