Maiden Tomb - Paperback
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What would you do if your son was executed by the local King for failing to solve a puzzle about his daughters' disappearances?
Would you attempt to solve the puzzle yourself?
Nobody is a bone-weary war veteran who just wants to return home to his wife. But things keep happening that prevent him from gaining his wish. The latest obstacle is when he blunders into a mystery about King Silver-Tongued's twelve daughters, who mysteriously disappear each night only to reappear at dawn with their slippers in shreds.
Nobody is really not interested in any of this. But he needs the King's favor to give him money so that he can buy passage on a ship to get home. But will King Silver-tongued actually help? A strange attraction to one of the King's daughters, sixteen-year-old Justice, keeps him lingering in Sikelia, despite the fact that he is old enough to be her father. Then his younger son Playful is murdered by King Silver-Tongued because he cannot figure out why the princesses are disappearing each night.
Nobody cannot let this tragedy stand. Grief-stricken, he resolves to avenge his son by solving the puzzle himself. Then he plans to wrest power away from crazed Silver-Tongued by marrying one of his daughters.
As the child of a broken home, I have always been fascinated by the ebb and flow of family relationships. Which forces gather family members together within the bounds of an ancient shelter? Which forces slice through that shelter, so that a parting of ways makes those left behind feel as if they are standing in a tumble of bricks, enveloped by the jagged shards of a destroyed home.
This is what I write about in my novels:
THWARTED QUEEN-Welcome to 1400s England, where a family feud between the Yorks, Lancasters and Nevilles began the Wars of the Roses and inspired Game of Thrones.
FAREWELL MY LIFE--Who is he? Who is this dark, handsome stranger who has become obsessed by 17-year-old Grace? Is he just the perfect accompanist for a Brahms sonata, or does he have other ideas? Welcome to a dark historical, set in early 20th century Washington DC and Berlin Germany, about a hidden murderer and how far he will go to control the women around him.
Thwarted Queen won the IPPY Gold Medal for Audiobook Fiction May 2021. Farewell My Life won the Independent Press Award for Women's Fiction April 2021
So who am I?
I am a proud Englishwoman with American roots. Although I speak like the BBC, I have five relatives on that Mayflower! So I suppose it was not surprising that I eventually ended up here, in the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic region, where I spent all of my adult life, winding my way through four careers: violinist, cognitive scientist, medical writer, and novelist.
I have spent more years in academic institutions that I care to share, but most recently, in June 2015, I graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Lesley University (located just north of Harvard Yard.)
My biggest influence was my half-American grandmother, Stephanie Treffry, who had a natural story-telling ability. As a widow in 1970s Britain, Grandma Steffi didn't drive a car, so would spend time waiting for buses. Her stories were about various encounters she had at those bus-stops. Nothing extraordinary, except that she made them so funny, everyone was in fits of laughter. I try to emulate her when I write my novels.
When I am not annoying everyone by dressing as if I live in the seventeenth century, I enjoy knitting, exercising, playing piano or cooking something in my wonderful kitchen.
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