MOONROY
The American Revolution in South Carolina by Beverly Enwall
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By the year 1765 the winds of rebellion are already blowing through the Carolinas where Peter Moncler has a modest plantation, a wife, four children, and slaves, for all plantations were in fact biracial communities. This is the story of the Moonroy "community" as revolt turned into war and freedom was purchased at a heavy price for many, black and white. (To hear an audio sample, CLICK on the icon below).
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THE FLAMENCO CONSPIRACY
by Ron E. Earl
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The first in the Dan O'Donovan series, an agent under a modern version of the old "Redskins" program that used real people as agents. The mission in Spain to locate and "dissolve" an international terrorist organizer is the first mission on which Dan's "real life" business partner, Pres Hooper, is part of the equation. Pres really likes Spain, the land of romance, and is blissfully unaware of Dan's problems with bombs, Basques and the Spanish police. Adding to the things going wrong, Pres' sister, tweedy Mary Sue shows up in her tally=yo hat.
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THE CONDOR CONSPIRACY by Ron E. Earl
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The U.S. Seanator's plane headed to Peru on a "friendship mission" goes down, taking Pres Hooper with it. Mary Sue flies to Lima at once to find any new about her brother. Dan follows, but on a new mission. His control, Colonel Garrison, seizes the opportunity to initiate a complex plan he has designed to overthrow the corrupt government of Fujimoro, rid the US of an ineffectual puppet, thwart attempts to make an ally out of a despicable one, and put a "good man" in place. Dan is to confirm that Garrison's choice is indeed a good man, bring him to international intention, and then help execute Garrison's grand coupe de grace which, when unveiled, startles even Dan. At first it all seems to be going well. To hear an audio sample, CLICK the icon
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Moon over Gaul: LOVE WALKS A WINDING PATH by Aubry Lea Bazán
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Odelia, the only legitimate heir of the strongest Helvetian chiefs, is stunned when her father, who has always treated her well, announces that to further his own plans Odelia is to marry a chieftain in Gaul. Her father needs good will in Gaul so that he can lead his people into a larger, more fertile land. But Odelia had always intended to marry the Helvetian warrior Ticus. She has seen her new intended from a distance, a handsome enough man but he smiles pleasantly all the time, and no true chieftain can always wear a pleasant smile. Yet she cannot disobey nor make public her father's plans which will anger the other chieftains as well as the Romans. And there is a rumor that a new general is coming from Rome, a man named Juliuse Caesar. To hear an audio sample, CLICK the icon
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Moon over Natal
LOVE FLIES NO BATTLEFLAG by Aubry Lea Bazán
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Hadley and her twin brother Harry Vanderveer never expected to live in South Africa, but when their Dutch father died and their Dutch grandfather retaliated against their English mother for having "ruined" his son's life, they had no choice but to travel to the British colony of Natal to their English grandfather. In spite of their misgivings, they found a loving and wealthy grandfather, a beautfiul house looking out on the veldt, friendly neighbors of various nationalities and a friendly Zulu staff. They found romance as well but had not been there a year before the Second Boer War broke out between the British and the South African Dutch. Not only was the peace broken, but so were families and friendships as happens in a war. To hear an audio sample, CLICK on icon.
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Moon over Zaragoza:
THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT by Aubry Lea Bazán
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From the year 711 until 1492, Spain was a country of the Christian cross and the Moslem crescent, and for many of those centuries it was roughly divided between the two. Kingdoms warred for conquest, for religion, for ambition, for greed. Lucia knew nothing of this world, for she knew only the convent, where she had grown up and where most of the nuns had taken a vow of silence. One day to her amazement her father arrives -- she didn't know she had a father -- and she must go out into the world. She tries to make sense of it all and decides this must be a test before taking her final vows. But it is not. It is a ploy by her father to placate his Moslem neighbors in Zaragoza, and Lucia as "bride" for one of their princes is part of the price he pays. She does meet an impressive Christian knight on the road but it gives her no hint about her own fate, nor does he offer any help. To survive, she has only her own wits.
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THE CROWN OF CASTILE How the Obscure Princess Isabel became Queen of Castile by Beverly Enwall
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Isabel, who would be Spain's most famous queen, at about age 6 was hidden away in a bleak castle tower together with her baby brother and a mother who in exile went quite mad. On the throne sat Isabel's half brother, Henry IV, a well intentioned king endlessly manipulated by his various (male) lovers and his minister, Villena, known in life as "the hand from hell in a velvet glove, who never raised his voice and never lowered his guard." The events far from that lonely castle tower, imprudent love affairs and failed intrigues plus Isabel's own shrewd mind created her most unexpected path to the throne.
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THE SHAMROCK CONSPIRACY \by Ron E. Earl
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The next mission takes Dan to Ireland to finish a mission that got violently interrupted, but this time he goes with Pres, and Pres is going because he has gotten a distress call from a heartbroken Mary Sue. It would seem Dan's control is right -- someone is deliberately fanning the flames of the old hatreds on both sides, and while Dan pursues the truth of the matter and sidesteps MI5 as best he can, Pres consolders Mary Sue and they both find a little time for romance as well. To hear an audio sample, CLICK on icon.
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GRASSLANDS by Aubry Lea Bazán
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Dr. Tom Halverson, repair surgeon, returns to Montana in part to bury his father and in part to search for answers. He knows his soul was dying. But the ranch where he grew up has no answers and certainly prestigious McGregor Memorial does not, since it was a major contributor to his problem. An unexpected invitation from a former Latin American colleague in a country where as yet repair surgeons are scarce seems to be the perfect escape. There the chances to do real repair -- not just tummy tucks -- would be limitless. Once there the professional aspect of life is so challenging that he feels his soul returning. Then he meets Teresa. Before long, Tom finds himself not only involved with a married woman but also with very high level, and dangerous, politics. To hear an audio sample, CLICK the icon
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Moon over Carolina:
LOVE AND REVOLUTION by Aubry Lea Bazán
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It is 1775 and war clouds hang over South Carolina. The young men studying abroad are returning, newly formed militias drill, and yet another Royal Governor is about to be run out of the colony. Among those returning from abroad is Ned Forsythe, the youngest of three swashbuckling brothers, but Ned was entrapped into marriage by a British girl, to the scandalized delight of CharlesTown society. His sister Ann and Thomas Lynch's daughter-in-law Elizabeth are Peggy Monaghan's two best friends, and they cannot help but notice that Ned and Peggy are fast becoming more than just friends. In late June, 1775, British ships atttack the city and are repulsed but from then on, it is a colony at war, and as with all wars, life will never be the same. To hear an audio sample, CLICK on icon
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Moon over Kolaren: HER WARLORD'S SPY by Aubry Lea Bazán
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Bergith came to Kolaren on the northern tip of Ireland as an exhausted Viking captive and would have been killed, but Nelda, the warlord's lady, tended her wounds and realized that she was not, as everyone assumed, a boy. She was, however, safer in that cruel castle as a boy, so with Lady Nelda's help, Bergith became Einar, the Singer of Songs. She would witness the brutal death of her benefactress, and her harp would fall silent for three years until the fierce warlord died and his son Lord Dovan began to rule. Beset by enemies on both sides, Dovan decides to send "Einar" off to spy, for a singer of songs is always welcome in a castle. Thus begins their relationship built on loyalty and trust but not on love. They both do find love, but not with each other, for life is never so simple. To hear an audio sample, CLICK on icon
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