Secrets, Scandal, and Slow-Burn Romance in 1868 Sydney
Betrayal runs deeper than blood in the shadows of colonial Sydney.
When a mysterious fire claims the life of a man investigating her family's secrets, Petunia Barclay's quiet world is shattered.
A letter from her father. A trail of dangerous truths. All she has left is a letter-and a trail of buried truths that lead straight to a racing scandal, a powerful lawyer's betrayal, and the man who has already broken her heart once.
One chance to uncover the truth... To protect what remains of her family's name, Petunia must risk everything-her heart, her future, and the safety of the one man she may still love.
A gripping historical mystery set in 1869 Sydney Petunia's Promise is the dramatic final book in the Sisters of Barclay Square trilogy. Perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Anna Lee Huber.
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Jenny Wheeler is convinced there is no better time than now to be a woman, but if she was faced with making a second choice it would be 1860's California ? the setting for her historical mystery series Of Gold & Blood.
Nearly twenty years after the 1849 Gold Rush brought thousands upon thousands of (mainly) men into California on the greatest adventure of their lives, the energy, the thirst for excitement remained, but the rough frontier had become a maritime colony; "urban, cosmopolitan, and resembling nothing else in the Far West," (Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850 ? 1915. Oxford University Press.) A place where women had the chance to pursue their dreams with more freedom than (arguably) anywhere else in the civilized world.
Jenny loves the stories that came to be spun from the region that was "the cutting edge of the American dream," (Kevin Starr again) and she's busily creating those stories with as much passion as those '49ers chased after gold nuggets!