Karen Dean Benson: 4 books

Here in Southwest Florida, we know a lot about the power of hurricanes. They can be terrifying, destructive demons playing havoc with human lives.We know a lot about the power of love, too. We know love can survive storms of all kinds, and these ten new stories from Southwest Florida Romance...

The deathbed promise made six years earlier to care for Padre Tomas’ child of his heart, compelled Don Sebastian to place her in a convent in Boston. He hoped the nuns would curb the forceful will that continually clashed with his own. Now, like a thunderbolt, her unannounced arrival reveals how...

Pilfering food for her sickly máthair, Aisling O’Quinn wanders amidst the filth-ridden cobbled streets of Five Points, Manhattan. A matron of the Children’s Aid Society catches her and considers it her civic duty to force the twelve-year-old onto an orphan train to a “better life”. Though...

In the spring of 1788, Renn Arelia Sheridan stares up at a portrait of the First Duchess of Chippenham, in the gallery of Armitage Hall. The painting clearly shows an emerald locket displayed on the gown. Renn Arelia’s breath quickens with realization, as her hand slips into a pocket fingering the...