The Shadow of Celene

The Shadow of Celene is a tale of freedom and slavery, love and loss, trust and betrayal, and the courage needed to survive the madness unleashed by the savagery of war.

Livy Prescott is a young wife dependent upon,beholden to, and manipulated by Celene, a slave.

In 1860, Edward Prescott gallops into Livy Taylor’s life racing his carriage down the main street of her tiny Pennsylvania town, winning a bet and her heart. After they wed, Livy is swept away to Merrywood, Edward’s home in the hills of North Carolina. There Livy faces the daunting task of adjusting to her new life as Mistress of Merrywood and slave-owner. And there Livy encounters Celene, the beautiful slave cook of Merrywood, skilled in the healing arts and privy to the deepest secrets of the Prescotts. Gradually Livy learns the extent of Celene’s influence and the hold she maintains over her master, causing Livy to question who is the real mistress of Merrywood.

• TAME THE SAVAGE HEART
• The Fall of the House of James (The James Saga)
• The Black Knight's Tune: Ruby's Story (Novella series to A Slave of the Shadows Book 1)
• Antebellum Struggles: Slavery, Lust and Suspicion (BOOK ONE)
• Sweet Bitter Freedom: the enthralling sequel to the Throwback
• BUT HAVE NOT LOVE
• Keeper of Slaves: Book Two of Antebellum Struggles
• A Guardian of Slaves (A Slave of the Shadows Book 2)
• The Cost of Atonement (The Cost of Love Series Book 2)
• Always A Slave (THE SECOND BOOK IN THE JAMES SAGA)