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Archives for August 2016

On Wings of Fire

August 26, 2016 by Frances Patton Statham

They left the genteel comforts of the American South for the dangerous excitement of World War II Europe…

Alpharetta Beaumont – Beautiful and courageous, she found love even more challenging than the dangerous missions she flew as a WASP – a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot…

Ben Mark St. John – He was going to marry Alpharetta until she suddenly broke the engagement…

Sir Dow Pomeroy – For the sake of a mission, Alpharetta posed as his wife – until he began to fall in love with her…

Belline – Lovely and petite, she loved Ben Mark as much as she hated Alpharetta and was determined to have him for herself…

Marsh Wexford – Belline’s stepbrother, a daring paratrooper whose exploits were nothing short of miraculous…

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From Love’s Ashes

August 26, 2016 by Frances Patton Statham

Atlanta between the two world wars –a respectable society exploding into scandal….
Beautiful Steppie Wexford finds her peaceful, happy life suddenly shattered. First, her husband is murdered. Then, her adopted daughter accuses her of killing him! And her family’s honor is threatened by strange financial dealings – a tangled web of hidden relationships and hints of moonshining involvement. In the midst of it all, Steppie discovers a pure and passionate love with Creag Trent. It is a love that can save her. But both Steppie and Creag know that before their exquisite love can truly bloom, the real killer of Steppie’s husband must be found and the honor of her family restored.

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Phoenix Rising

August 26, 2016 by Frances Patton Statham

From Atlanta, the city risen from the ashes, to the trenches of France…

The enthralling story of a silver-haired beauty and the exotic stranger who loves her…

Kenna Chalmers, Atlanta’s leading debutante, becomes an army nurse with one thought in mind—to search for her brother who was shot down over France. But before she can leave Atlanta many dangers and surprises await her.

The terror of the chase as an escaped German prisoner of war tries to kill her… the passion of a gypsy who steals her love in a deserted cabin…the secret engagement to an aristocratic officer.

Through it all, Kenna struggles to deny the irresistible passion of Irish Fitzpatrick, the man determined to make her his own.

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The Roswell Legacy

August 26, 2016 by Frances Patton Statham

The Roswell Legacy is a story of courage and power, of American history and deep abiding love – all set against the backdrop of Grover Cleveland’s Washington, a capital fraught with politics and greed, where the slightest whisper of scandal could ruin a career…

The Civil War has been over for 25 years, and Allison Forsyth has made a new life. Believing that her beloved husband Coin had died in battle, she has remarried and borne a son-who has grown up and fallen in love with a beautiful young woman named Ginna.

Allison is eager to meet Ginna and her family – but exhilaration is to be short-lived. For soon she discovers that Coin has not died at all, that he too has remarried and begun a new life – that his daughter is none other than the exquisite Ginna.

Two families, two generations of Roswell women, forced to face a tragedy from the past – and a treacherous secret that ultimately becomes… The Roswell Legacy.

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The Roswell Women

August 26, 2016 by Frances Patton Statham

From the pages of American History comes The Roswell Women

As they watched a nation being torn asunder, the women of Roswell, Georgia could hardly stand idle. Left without their men, they ran the Roswell mill to provide a flagging Confederate Army with proud gray uniforms. But their defiance branded them as traitors to the North and they were mercilessly shipped northward in an act decried as brutal by North and South alike.

Allison Forsyth – Beautiful widow of Captain Coin Forsyth, the regal plantation mistress would survive the ravages of imprisonment to find a new love-until a ghost from the past threatened to destroy her hard-won freedom.

Madrigal O’Laney – The fiery redhead lured men from both sides of the war with a promise of love. But the promise had a price and one man thought it was too steep to pay.

Rebecca Smiley – Allison’s servant, she had groomed her mistress for the life of an aristocrat, and the war was not going to spoil her work. She would stop at nothing to see her mistress in her rightful place again.

Flood Tompkins – Disguised as a man, she would survive the war to stake her claim to a fortune, and make a choice that could change Allison’s life forever.

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To Face the Sun

August 26, 2016 by Frances Patton Statham

4. To Face the Sun, the 4th book in the series, shows World War II in the Pacific. Kenna and her husband, Brig. General Fitzpatrick, who is on MacArthur’s staff,  are in Australia. Their son Jack is in the navy, and their daughter, Amanda “Sunny” Fitzpatrick, is a nurse on a hospital ship, that picks up the wounded from the various islands in the Pacific. When the ship is sunk, Sunny winds up on a dangerous  island in the Solomons with the coastal watcher, Alex Ramsay, the British marquess of Dalhousie.

Filed Under: Phoenix

On Wings of Fire

August 26, 2016 by Frances Patton Statham

3. On Wings of Fire, the third in the series, takes place in World War II, with a convoluted love relationship between the second generation: Alpharetta, who flies with the WASPs, (the Women’s Air Service Pilots) and goes on a dangerous secret mission; Belline, Steppie’s adopted daughter, who is a member of the USO;; Ben Mark, a pilot with the U.S. 8th Air Force, and “Marsh” Wexford, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne, whose heroic exploits from Sicily to Operation Market Garden highlight the role of the pathfinders.

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From Love’s Ashes

August 26, 2016 by Frances Patton Statham

2. From Love’s Ashes, the second in the series, takes place in the 1930s in Atlanta in a scandal-ridden society of power brokers, with three male cousins threatening the well-being  of Steppie, who is accused of murdering her husband, Kenna’s half- brother, who has never recovered from World War I. Only Creag, who has loved her from afar, can save her.

Filed Under: Phoenix

Phoenix Rising

August 26, 2016 by Frances Patton Statham

1. Phoenix Rising encompasses a World War I love story between Kenna Chalmers, a debutante who becomes a nurse in an army base hospital in France and Capt. John “Irish” Fitzpatrick, a member of the 82nd Division, who fights in some of the bloodiest battles of the war.

Filed Under: Phoenix

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