A picaresque novel of the remarkable life of a liberated 19th-century woman.

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Geoffrey Frost participates in a key battle of the American Revolution in the latest installment of the Frost Saga

A novel of Colonial Rhode Island and its vibrant early African American life and culture.

As professional golfer Jack Austin battles the worst slump of his career as a PGA Tour player, he begins an investigation doomed to lead to secrets, betrayals, lies, and, ultimately, to murder.

The second volume of the adventures of Geoffrey Frost

A picaresque saga of a young French-Canadian woman in Vermont, available in a new paperback edition