Historical
COMING IN 2025
Fanny Montusan, a Tory girl of 15 living with her mother in Westminster, New York, becomes tangled in political events that culminate in the Westminster Massacre. The violence has a disastrous impact on her life. Following the Revolutionary War Fanny, now a dashing young widow, returns to Westminster where she meets Vermont hero Ethan Allen.
A month before the battles of Lexington and Concord, the first fatalities of the American Revolution occurred in the tiny town of Westminster, now in Vermont. The events leading up to the Westminster Massacre, and the aftermath, including Vermont's declaration of independence, focus the lens of history on the author's hometown.
Fiction
Based on real events in my hometown in the 1880s; two sisters locked in silent struggle, while an arsonist burns down local barns and houses.
Orphaned in a horse and buggy accident, Harriet must live with her harsh aunt and mild-mannered uncle on their Vermont hill farm. Her only way back to school and the life she loved is to train the colt that was orphaned in the same accident; her only way to find real peace is to reach understanding with Aunt Sarah. Both seem equally impossible, until another accident shows these two stubborn people a way forward.
In post-Civil War coal country, an orphan witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse which seems to have mysterious powers.
A world history told in poems about horses.