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 Historical | Contemporary
The Cotillion Ball Series
The Cotillion was and still is a formal ball for debutantes—young ladies from aristocratic or upper-class families--who have reached the age of maturity and are presented to society. The Cotillion was a young lady’s first introduction to eligible bachelors and their families. The concept of the Cotillion was introduced to affluent New Yorkers in 1854 and by the following year was “de rigueur” for all fashionable young ladies. The Cotillion Ball Series follows the lives of the nine Fitzpatrick children as they deal with coming of age in the tumultuous years leading up to and including the Civil War in America.
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The Reluctant Debutante -- Now available in paperback and ebook from Crimson Romance
Book One
In 1855 New York, nineteen-year-old Ginger Fitzpatrick has absolutely no interest in taking part in the newest rage in America—the Cotillion Ball. Instead, Ginger would rather be rallying for women’s rights; at least until she meets her brother’s best friend from St. Louis, a dark mysterious man named Joseph Lafontaine, who ignites her passion and makes her question if love and marriage is such a ridiculous notion after all. What she and the rest of New York’s high society don’t realize is that Joseph is half Ojibwa Indian, and therefore, totally unsuitable for marriage to a fine, cultured young lady.
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The Abolitionist’s Secret --
Now Available from Crimson Romance
Book Two
In 1856 New York, eighteen-year-old Heather Fitzpatrick, a bashful abolitionist, falls for dashing young Army lieutenant David Whitman, who is tracking a runaway slave from his father’s plantation.
Despite their divergent views on slavery, romance ensues and an engagement quickly transpires. He wants her to accompany him home to Savannah, GA to meet his ailing father.
She longs to go to meet his parents, and possibly to secretly teach his father’s slaves how to read and write.
But she knows the South is no place for an abolitionist.
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Banking on Temperance -- Coming from Crimson Romance May, 2013
Basil Fitzpatrick was born into a life of privilege. In 1856, at 23 years of age, he is the owner of the St. Louis branch of the family banking business. He has his pick of the ladies and life by the horns. Temperance Jones and her family are far from privileged. Her father is a circuit-riding preacher from Pennsylvania. But the rumblings of a war between the North and the South force the preacher to move his family to Oregon rather than to take up arms against his fellow man. However, hardship and sickness have slowed their pace, and they are forced to spend the winter in St. Louis, waiting for the next wagon trains to leave in the spring.
Basil is drawn to the large family the moment they roll into town, partly because they remind him of his own big family in New York. But also because of the eldest daughter, Temperance. She is a tiny, no-nonsense spitfire who is bent on fulfilling her father’s wish to get the family safely to Oregon. Basil knows if he allows Temperance into his heart, he is accepting the obligation of her entire family. He wants Temperance like he has wanted no other, but the burden of her family may be too much for him.
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Blame It On The Brontës -- Coming in Spring, 2013 from Soul Mate Publishing
Three unruly sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, reunite in their hometown of Puffin Bay, ME for their mother’s funeral. The sisters haven’t had much to do with each other for almost twenty years, relying on their mother to keep them informed about each other. As a condition of her will, each sister has to move back to the family home for one year and live under the same roof again. Only if they comply can they share in the considerable bounty of the estate. They bring emotional as well as physical baggage as they return to the town where they grew up, and to the men of Puffin Bay.
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