In 16th-century Scotland, Lady Elspeth Forbes is bound by duty to a marriage she never chose, yet her heart leads her elsewhere. Defiance sparks scandal, setting in motion a chain of secrets, rivalries, and betrayals that threaten her family’s future. Inspired by the author’s 13x great-grandmother, A Thread in Time weaves love, loss, and resilience into a tale of one woman’s fight to claim her voice in a world determined to silence her.

The year 1542 brings upheaval to Scotland: a newborn queen, a dying king, a nation poised on the edge of war. As crown and country shift in uncertain hands, Lady Elspeth Skene is caught between private sorrow and the storm of history. Grief shadows her days, yet whispers of betrayal and secrets long buried begin to rise. As alliances fracture and old enmities stir, her unraveling mirrors the kingdom’s own disarray. The Silent Vow is a tale of silence and reckoning, where secrets prove as perilous as rebellion in a land on the brink of change.

Faith divides, old powers falter, and Scotland edges toward ruin. As the kingdom fractures, so too does Lady Elspeth Skene’s fragile peace. New life cannot soften old wounds, and vengeance whispers at the edges of her resolve. In a land where ruin and rebirth walk hand in hand, her unraveling becomes inseparable from her country’s own. Alba’s Seed is a haunting story of vengeance and transformation, where one woman’s choices mirror the breaking and remaking of Scotland itself.

More than a century after Lady Elspeth Skene defied her world, her descendant John Skene faces a new kind of tyranny. Fined, imprisoned, and stripped of all he holds dear for his Quaker beliefs, he and his wife Helene turn their backs on the land that shaped them. In 1682, they board the Golden Lion with their surviving children, bound for West Jersey and the uncertain mercy of a foreign shore.

Seeds of Freedom begins the next chapter of The Legacy of Alba—a story of conviction and courage, where faith becomes rebellion and exile the price of conscience. Across an ocean, the Skenes will learn that the cost of freedom is never left behind.

In the colonies of West Jersey and beyond, the Skene children come of age in a world both brimming with promise and shadowed by peril. Alexander serves crown and commerce, John Patrick takes root in the soil of a new land, and Lillias steps into a destiny unlike any other woman of her time. Torn between allegiance to the past and the call of an uncharted future, each must decide what legacy they will carry forward. Alba’s Legacy is a story of inheritance and transformation, where the threads of Scotland weave themselves into the fabric of a new world.

From plantation halls to places of worship, from the bonds of slavery to the fragile hope of faith, Lillias Skene Haig stands at the edge of history. In a world that would deny her voice, she dares to teach, to nurture, and to kindle light in the shadows of oppression. The Hidden Light is a testament to courage and conviction, tracing one woman’s fearless resolve to shape a future none could have foreseen.

In the sultry heat of the 1970s South, ten-year-old Summer drifts between the unraveling worlds of her parents: a father searching for himself, a mother consumed by her own reflection, and a family stretched thin by divorce. A road trip through sun-soaked coasts and moss-draped cities of the South promises escape, but shadows follow them into the swamps of memory and loss.

When tragedy strikes, Summer is forced to confront the fragility of childhood and the silence of adults too lost to guide her. Summerland is a haunting coming-of-age novel about innocence and grief, the fault lines of family, and the indelible moment a girl first learns the world will not bend to her keeping.

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