Alice Duncan: 25 books

Transplanted Boston Brahmin, Mercy Allcutt, has had some very exciting times as secretary to private investigator, Ernie Templeton. While it’s true she’s been in what she considers a wee bit of trouble (and Ernie considers out-and-out danger) a time or two, she’s determined to continue learning...

Former Boston Brahmin Mercy Allcutt is excited to be renting out suites of rooms to deserving working women in her new home on Bunker Hill in Los Angeles. She considers she's performing an act of good-heartedness, no matter how skeptical her boss, private investigator Ernie Templeton, is about...

Mercy Allcutt, Boston Brahmin, wants to experience life in all its grittiness. How better than by working for a down-on-his luck PI in Hollywood? Once she discovers what PI actually stands for, she knows Mr. Ernest Templeton is the boss for her.Raised in the ivory tower of proper Boston, when...

It’s a warm August morning in 1926 Los Angeles, California. Mercedes Louise Allcutt (Mercy to her friends) is thrilled to be going to her job as secretary to private investigator Ernie Templeton—until she opens the door and discovers her mother on the doorstep. Known to her friends as Honoria...

When a desperate Eulalie Gibb comes to Rio Penasco to escape a murderous maniac, no one, least of all Eulalie herself, believes she'll find the love of her life there. Eulalie, who grew up with her sister Pasty in her family’s traveling theatrical company in New York City, is almost prepared...

Longing for adventure, prim and proper Georgina Witherspoon came to the Wild West to care for her crazy grandmother. But when she got there she discovered that Grandma wasn't mad as everyone had suggested--she was simply being haunted by the ghost of her true love, Devlin, who never bother to declare...

He was everything she ever wanted -- and could not touch . . . By day she was Claire Montague, prim, demure housekeeper of Partington Place. By dark of night she wrote the wildly popular dime novels that had made frontiersman Tuscaloosa Tom Pardee a household name. Suddenly her new employer,...

She gave advice to everyone -- but she could use a bit herself . . . Emily von Plotz barely eked out a living giving advice to readers of the San Francisco Call as "Aunt Emily." Then she chanced to meet the man who had signed himself "Texas Lonesome" -- the unpolished, but...

Young widow Maggie Bright had her hands full raising a baby daughter and running a farm with no one to help except her lazy drunk of a hired hand. The last thing she needed was a bullet-riddled, half-dead stranger riding into her front yard! As she nursed Jubal Green back to life, Maggie found...

Jack Valentine and Phoebe Honeycutt hate each other on sight when they run into one another by accident on the vast Texas plain. To Jack, who fought for four years in the Union Army against the secessionist South, Phoebe is just another worthless, simpering southern belle. Phoebe, whose life in Atlanta...

She knew he was the One the moment he galloped into her life, dusty and wounded, but handsome as sin. Miss Addie Blewitt had dreamed all her life of him—the perfect southern gentleman, her own Prince Charming. Charley Wilde said he and his partner were musicians looking for a place to stay—a place...

A rough California gold camp seems an unlikely place for two lonely people running from their pasts to meet. But when Sam Ransom first sees Zenobia Gray taking after a huge, bearded miner with a ladle, then delivering a baby and comforting a bereaved man, he decides that, while she might be a fussy...

Gracie: Jake had been her hero growing up. Now he was the only man she could trust. Jake: A preacher in a lawless town, Jake held services in a saloon for a gang of lawless desperadoes. Running from a painful past, Gracie fled to New Mexico Territory--and Jake--with a child named Charity...

JED: He'd been hired to escort Miss Tacita Grantham from New Mexico Territory to San Francisco—and easy job for a rugged Westerner like him. But he didn't count on her little rat of a dog sinking its teeth into his leg. Nor did he plan on falling for the fair maiden with the big blue eyes and golden...