Month: November 2019
Little Women may have paid the bills, but Louisa May Alcott was far more passionate about her sensationalist thrillers.
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Louisa May Alcott is having a moment. Another film adaptation of Little Women hits theaters this winter (a BBC production aired on PBS Masterpiece only a year ago), two separate Little Women-themed cookbooks were released in October, and a new essay collection, March Sisters, featuring work from Kate Bolik, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley, published just this past summer, attests to the novel’s enduring legacy.
Generations of scholars have examined Alcott’s personal life (Civil War nurse, “spinster,” possibly a lesbian), discussed ad nauseum her family’s radical political activism (her father was not only a transcendentalist and an abolitionist, but believed in absolute equality of all races); and marveled at her childhood milieu, surrounded by people like Emerson and Thoreau and her mother’s friends, Lucretia Mott and the Grimke sisters, as well as meeting Frederick Douglass and his wife. But far less attention is paid to her sensationalist “blood and thunder tales”—pulpy thrillers she wrote early in her career, often using the pseudonym A.M. Barnard.
This was the work Alcott was passionate about before the financial needs of her family forced her into writing what she called “moral pap for the young.”
“I think my natural ambition is for the lurid style,” she said in an interview. “I indulge in gorgeous fancies and wish that I dared inscribe them upon my pages and set them before the public. How should I dare interfere with the proper grayness of Old Concord? The dear old town has never known a startling hue since the redcoats were there. Far be it from me to inject an inharmonious color into the natural tint. And what would my own father think of me … No, my dear, I shall always be a wretched victim to the respectable traditions of Concord.”
Once Little Women catapulted her to fame in 1868, there was no going back to those “gorgeous fancies,” even anonymously. She wrote “moral pap” for the money, and the rest was left behind. Even if she wanted to continue, her time was taken up with her publisher’s requests and the demands of chronic illness (some believe she suffered the after-effects of mercury treatment; some believe she had lupus).
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Precious Bones
When the skeletal remains of a young woman and her baby are found entombed behind the kitchen wall of a historic Tudor house, Cassandra is overcome with grief. She seems to know who the young woman was, but not how she knows, or how she came to be there. Cassandra becomes inexplicably drawn to the house and the mystery of the “Bones of Blackfriars.” As she begins to learn the truth about the Thorne siblings who occupied the house during the reign of Elizabeth I, her own life takes an unexpected turn, and she finds out that her fate is linked to the Thornes in ways she never imagined.
Precious Bones by Irina Shapiro is part fantasy, part historical fiction. The author does an amazing job of bringing the distant past alive as she describes the abuses in the name of religion of the era and traces a family’s roots from past to present. She puts the reader fully in the picture, and an initially gruesome picture it is. This one, I guarantee you, you will not be able to put down once you start reading. – Amazon Customer
Oh, what a wonderful book! I loved the story! It is written in the past and present and such a powerful and moving storyline. I felt as if I knew the characters and was with them in the story. Wonderful writing! I cannot wait to read another book by this author! A wonderful historical of Elizabethan times! – Amazon Customer
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Ever Strange (Legal Magick 1) – Paranormal Romantic Suspense
It takes a monster to catch one.
ZANE WALKER—FBI, Magickal Crimes Division
There’s a reason the bureau sends me undercover with the worst drug cartels in the world—my magick is as illegal and dirty as the enhancers they peddle. Just the kind that “Pennies” Machnik—Dziki crime lord—likes to use on his enemies. Being his enforcer lets me keep my own monster locked up while I build a case against him. If I can bring Pennies in, maybe I can finally put the stigma of what I am behind me. But when people start overdosing on his street drugs, a beautiful witch storms in, making demands she thinks she can back up with magick. I have to make a split second choice… and the monster comes raging out.
EVER STRANGE—CEO, Strange Medical Technologies
Someone has killed my father. They made it look like an overdose, but Asher Strange, the world-renown researcher of medical magick, never took an illegal drug in his life… much less tawdry magick enhancers. I run the family empire, but no one was more proud of the Strange family name than my father. A long line of us stretches back to the first days of High Magick—no way he would throw that away chasing a quick high. But before I can get an autopsy, my father’s body disappears… and being a Level One mage and one of the richest women in the city means I will get answers.
Someone’s putting deadly magick into street drugs… and it’s killing people all over Chicago. Zane’s magick is monstrous, and Ever’s power brings out his beast. But she insists on finding her father; and keeping her safe has suddenly become his job—on top of stopping an epidemic of overdoses that just might be cover for a serial killer. Together, they work to stop the dark magick that’s stalking the streets of Chicago… and try to keep their own secrets from consuming them both.
Ever Strange is the first book in a new paranormal romantic suspense series from bestselling romance author Alisa Woods. The first three books in the series (Ever Strange, Mercy Strange, Verity Strange) follow the three Strange sisters, each powerful witches in an influential magickal family embroiled in a mysterious plot to change everything about the magickal world. Part urban fantasy, Legal Magick takes place in an alternate Chicago where High Magick returned in 1859 and is now integral in every aspect of the legal—and illegal—world. Each book is a standalone romance.
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A summer with Annabelle Clarke can only end one of two ways: satisfaction or surrender. Connell (Carolina Reapers Book 3) by Samantha Whiskey
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Connell (Carolina Reapers Book 3)
I’m famous for two things—being one of the best defensemen in the NHL and my classic pranks.
My teammates always said one of my jokes would bite me in my Scottish arse one day, and they were right.
After a prank goes wrong, I’m sentenced to six weeks community service under none other than the sexy, rule-abiding, smart-mouthed city clerk of Sweet Water—Annabelle Clarke.
Lucky for me it’s offseason.
Unlucky for me?
I want Annabelle like I want my next breath.
She’s smart, luscious, and wound-tighter than a Scottish drum.
Och, I’d love to be the one to help loosen her strings.
She’s made it clear that while I’m under her employment, she won’t be under me.
The white-hot chemistry we can’t deny must be ignored at all costs.
But bantering with her is soon my favorite pastime
And she’s the sweetest forbidden fruit I’ve ever tasted
As we grow closer, one thing is absolutely clear
A summer with Annabelle Clarke can only end one of two ways:
Satisfaction or surrender.
And I can only hope we can weather the storm when the sky inevitably crashes down on us.
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I absolutely adored Connell and Annabelle. The banter, tension, drama, the sexy times…. oh sweet baby Jesus, the sex was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 definitely a NSFW read.
This book had me giggling, sighing, cursing like a sailor then smiling like a little school girl – my heart was so happy.” – Amazon Five Star Review