Thank you! I loved writing Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, so I’m delighted that you loved reading it. My historical novels include:
The Runaway Quilt (2002) — The story of two women, one a German immigrant and the other a fugitive slave, set in Pennsylvania during the antebellum era and the present.
The Quilter’s Legacy (2003) — Sylvia Bergstrom Compson searches for her mother’s long-lost antique quilts in a story that takes readers from the suffrage movement in turn-of-the-century New York to the home front of the Great War and the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.
The Sugar Camp Quilt (2005) — The Underground Railroad in antebellum Pennsylvania.
The Quilter’s Homecoming (2007) — Southern California in the Roaring Twenties.
The Lost Quilter (2009) — Civil War era Charleston as witnessed from the perspective of an enslaved woman who had escaped to freedom in the North (in The Runaway Quilt) but was betrayed and recaptured.
The Union Quilters (2011) — The Pennsylvania home front and the battlefields of Pennsylvania and Virginia during the Civil War.
Sonoma Rose (2012) — California wine country during Prohibition.
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker (2013) — Missouri and Virginia in the antebellum era; Washington, D. C. during the Civil War; Chicago and Washington in the post-war years.
The Spymistress (2013) — Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War.
Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival (2014) — Antebellum Ohio and Civil War era Washington.
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule (2015)— Antebellum Missouri and Civil War era Missouri, Washington, Viriginia, and elsewhere.
Christmas Bells (2015) — Boston in the Civil War era and the present day.
Fates and Traitors (2016) — Early Victorian era England and Antebellum and Civil War Era United States.
Enchantress of Numbers (2017) — Great Britain and parts of the Continent from 1814-1852.
Resistance Women (2019) — Germany during the rise of fascism in the years leading up to World War II.
Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters (2020) — Illinois, Kentucky, and Washington D.C. in the 18th century, with some scenes in the Confederate South.
The Women’s March (2021) — New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. in the months leading up to the Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913.
Switchboard Soldiers (2022) — USA, UK, and France during World War One.
Canary Girls (2023) — The munitions factories and football pitches of World War One Great Britain.