BY DESIGN (Book 2 in the Savvy Homes Trilogy)
To an outsider, Des Jepson has it all together. This house-flipping businesswoman is known around Savannah for her sharp wit, sharper heels, and a killer sense of fashion — all coupled with a no-nonsense attitude and serious planning skills. In a historic city with superstition and tradition crowding its narrow streets, Des is a modern woman who doesn’t need anyone’s help to get what she wants. But after a few chance encounters, bartender Miller Hain knows there’s a heart of gold beneath that frosty exterior just waiting to be won — and he’s the man to do it. Meanwhile, Savannah’s uneasy spirits seem destined to put a damper on their flirtation. As the old city reels from a suspicious death, the Savvy Homes team has to contend with an increasingly malevolent presence in their latest project. And as Des seeks to uncover the house’s dark past, a shocking discovery could kill off her chance to find happiness with Miller.
GOOD BONES (Book 1 in the Savvy Homes Trilogy)
Carlee Murdoch, the home renovation expert of the business she owns with her two best friends, has never thought much about love. But when her floor guy suddenly quits and she’s faced with his irritating – and irritatingly attractive – replacement, she’s suddenly questioning everything. Josh Winters, meanwhile, is looking for a fresh start in a new city, and while his new boss’s hard-ass personality has him tripping over himself, he’s determined to make this new life in Savannah work. Slowly, Carlee and Josh just might start coming around to each other – all while renovating old houses together, uncovering family secrets, enduring some best friends’ meddling, and even encountering one or two mysterious spirits along the way. It’s bound to be an interesting summer.
WILD HEARTS
Set in the idyllic farming town of Reliance, Montana, WILD HEARTS follows the decade-spanning love of Dustin Luray and Cara Brown, who are brought back together as a mysterious murderer stalks their home and threatens their friends and family. Not quite ready to put the past – and her broken heart – aside for a second chance at love, Cara finds that Dustin isn’t so easily deterred. Though he messed up all those years ago, he’s determined to make things right now that he’s reminded why he can’t live without the woman who’s blossomed from a shy teenager and into a headstrong, independent woman. As he and Cara seek answers regarding his father’s gruesome murder, they are forced to confront their painful past, while exploring their possible future… all while they avoid falling victim to the murderer who continues to threaten them and all they love most.
Edward VI: Henry VIII’s Overshadowed Son
(Pen and Sword Books UK)
Edward VI has long been forgotten in the midst of larger and louder kings and queens of the Tudor dynasty. But Edward, as Henry VIII’s only legitimate son and heir, was a much more influential English monarch than he is given credit for – making huge steps to further the Protestant Reformation effort that his father had begun, changing the line of Tudor succession to include his cousin Lady Jane Grey, and motivating religious policy in both of his sisters’ later reigns – the harsh anti-reformation work of Catholic Mary I, and the leaps and bounds of Protestant reform that was achieved under Elizabeth I. Far from being the weak, insignificant ‘puppet king’ that hardly bears noticing, the aim of this new biography is to set Edward VI at the center of his own story, and to make the case that he is, in fact, a Tudor king worth remembering.
STEPHANIE KLINE 