Laurie Loveman: 10 books

Linda Marie Newman and Jenny Donnelly have been rescuing young girls from sex traffickers in 1930s New York City. Wealthy, politically and socially prominent Alderman, Jayden Wallace has been enjoying the income from trafficking until his operation is threatened by Linda Marie and Jenny. When...

Laurie Loveman shares her experience going through several years of a divorce and the process of trying to regain the self-assurance and confidence she had before her marriage. It was critical to her future that she accomplish this, and after a brief introduction, Loveman begins her memoir in 1979 when...

When you're faced with divorce, getting back into the workforce, raising two teenagers, and taking care of eight horses, it sometimes helps to have a sympathetic ear. In my case, the sympathetic ear belonged to my horse, Amigo. Unsympathetic ears belonged to the men of the Shaker Heights, Ohio Fire...

In 1932, former New York City Fire Captain Jake McCann is appointed fire chief in Woodhill, a small Ohio village. He and his two officers, also from New York City, are haunted by their memories of two tragic events. For Jake the appointment is a chance for him to rebuild his life in the town where...

THE QUARRY, Book 2 of the Firehouse Family Series, is approximately 155,000 words in length. It's 1933 and the town of Woodhill, Ohio is faced with the possible closing of Liberty Sand & Gravel, the local quarry that in better times employed almost a hundred men. Mining expert, Aaron Chandler,...

The third book in the Firehouse Family series, THE FARM FIRES continues the story of Freddy Pratter. Freddy has never allowed anyone to know his true feelings. A divorced man who bounces from woman to woman, Freddy doesn't expect to find love. Glynis Hampton, a newly divorced friend of Laura...

Over the space of several weeks in the summer of 1935, 13 starving horses and ponies, along with one very fat pony and a goat, are left in Woodhill, Ohio. The unknown person behind the arrival of the horses earns the nickname, The Horse Fairy, but The Horse Fairy is not out to save lives; he is gangster...

In June of 1934, newly-divorced Glynis Hampton and Woodhill Fire Department Captain Freddy Pratter find they share an interest in photography. They start going out on Sunday afternoons to snap pictures, and Freddy builds a darkroom in his apartment for developing film. Dalebridge Fire Chief Max Roper...

In August, 1933, Woodhill, Ohio Fire Chief Jake McCann and the woman he loves, Laura Darvey, have recovered physically from the events of last Christmas Eve, in which Laura's ex-husband, Dan, died. Laura is still recovering emotionally, but she has returned to work as a visiting nurse. With Dan's...

It’s April, 1935, and Tilly Carpenter is unhappy with her husband, Alex, who is leading a campaign to oust Fire Chief Jake McCann from the Woodhill Fire Department. After two years in prison Bobby Darvey is obsessed with destroying Laura Darvey and Jake. In Las Vegas, Bobby hires recently-widowed...