WORKS IN PROGRESS
Dreams of the Alhambra
A Canadian graduate student accepts a research assignment that takes her to Granada, Spain even as she grapples with the mysterious disappearance of a friend while on holiday together in Istanbul. In a desperate effort to deal with recurring nightmares, the use of a Gypsy brew creates transportive dreams which take her to the Alhambra Palace in fifteenth-century Spain. During her transports, she witnesses the star-crossed love affair between a Moorish King's daughter and the son of a rival for the throne of Granada. Captivated by these events, she embarks on a dangerous gambit of seeking escape from the present by losing herself in the past.
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Rooted in Spanish folklore, Dreams of the Alhambra is a tale of adventure and romance which weaves a fifteenth-century monarch's struggle to retain his crown with a present day woman's struggle to cope with trauma.
Daughter of Zanzibar
A father's untimely death and a mysterious inheritance sends a young English Nightingale nurse, recently returned from the Crimean War, upon another adventure across the seas, this time to the distant isle of Zanzibar.
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​A mosaic of mystery, adventure and romance, Daughter of Zanzibar is an epic saga of self-discovery, which interweaves Emily Grey's chronicles to find the mother she has never known with the riveting story of her parents’ star-crossed love affair. In this crossroad of trade and culture, she uncovers her connection to a royal scandal and braves the ire of a tyrannical ruler to realize a lifelong dream.
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