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Find it on my new store at moonshellbooks.com today! Or on your favorite online retailer: Amazon Kindle • Apple Books • Barnes & Noble Nook • Kobo • Google Play Books To outsiders, Lewis Protheroe is private secretary to Lady Claire and Sir Andrew Malvern, the most famous inventors in steampunk London. But to insiders,…

Welcome–or as they say in Lancaster County, Wilkomm! Once I get rolling, you’ll find posts here on everything from quilting and canning your own food to opinions on fast food and Easter chicks. I’ll share tips for time management—and for finding time for yourself. Lots of us want to know how to simplify, streamline, and…

This blog is a bit like a narrow-gauge train … it has its own track and rarely branches out where the bigger trains go. I haven’t had guest bloggers (would you like that?) or done book reviews (should I?) or that kind of thing, but once in awhile something comes along that jazzes me to…

In the beginning, there was no Circle M ranch. Thirty years ago, there was only the girl next door and the boy who was too shy to tell her he loved her … December marks one of the hardest winters the Miller family has seen in the few years they’ve been ranching in Montana. But…

Book four of the Mysterious Devices series An earthquake strikes. A prince and the engineer who loves him are missing. But is it disaster—or foul play? Hot on the trail of their missing father, Daisy and Freddie Linden step off the airship Iris in San Francisco de Asis. At the moment they discover their best clue to…

(written upon the back of a shipping manifest bearing the Meriwether-Astor crest) Myself: St. Ives pearls and grandmama’s ring 3 gabardine walking skirts (navy, not black) 5 waists (2 lace, 3 plain?) Shoes, half-boots, stockings 2 walking jackets 1 warm coat 3 hats 2 dinner gowns (if arrive in time from Davina’s modiste) Traveling papers…