Bøker av Kirsten McKenzie

Roman ruins. A reluctant time traveler. And an army under threat.Can one woman slip back through time to avert a slaughter and save the man she loves?When ancient ruins are discovered on a Northumberland farm, just south of Hadrian's Wall, emotions boil over as treasure seekers and the government descend like locusts. But ancient altars aren't the only riches beneath the soil of Ithaca Farm. Lurking beneath the thin veneer of time is a secret that could threaten the lives of her family and friends. Lillian must find a way to slip back in time to save them all, and the only man she has ever loved.A sweeping saga of friendship, love, and the corruption of power, Ithaca Bound is the continuation of the Old Curiosity Shop time travel trilogy. Follow Lillian as she battles against time, and the formidable march of ancient Rome, to save the ones she loves.Journey back and forth to Roman Britain from the safety of your reading nook, and discover the power of time travel.Ithaca Bound is the first book in the Ithaca time travel trilogy.Ithaca Time Travel TrilogyBook #1 - Ithaca BoundBook #2 - Ithaca LostBook #3 - Ithaca FoundThe Ithaca time travel trilogy is a spinoff series from the Old Curiosity Shop time travel mystery series, featuring many of the same characters.Old Curiosity Shop Time Travel TrilogyBook #1 - Fifteen PostcardsBook #2 - The Last LetterBook #3 - Telegram Home

The third in this wonderful time-travel historical fiction series.

1762. Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when her marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces the damp salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail on the Isabella, away from the land of her childhood towards unseen places and an unknown future.But being the captain's wife is going to be harder than she thought. Her husband is still grieving for his first wife, and Mary can't ignore her feelings towards another man onboard. Through him, she has a taste of the kind of love she might have known, and even begins to think that escape is possible. With ruthless pirates patrolling British waters and ports full of outcasts with unspoken pasts, Mary learns quickly that loyalties are always shifting and people are rarely as they first seem. The Captain's Wife is a richly realised story of adventure about a strong young woman determined to survive her fate by a wonderful storyteller.

Part Regency mystery, part imperial history, this title presents a tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds - British aristocrats and Australian felons - bound together in an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal worth was battling power based on birth alone. It illuminates the darker side of this age of liberty.

Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy. Feeling increasingly frustrated with his situation, Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on the barren island.The prisoners band together to create an extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds and ends and homemade paints. Whilst Emilio's chapel will remain long after the POW camp has been left to the sheep, will his love for Rosa survive the hardships of war and separation? For Rosa is no longer the girl that he left behind. She is being drawn further into the Italian resistance movement and closer to danger, as friendships and allegiances are ever complicated by the war. Human perseverance and resilience are at the heart of this strong debut and the small Italian chapel remains, as it does in reality on the island of Lamb's Holm, as a symbol of these qualities.