I have been writing historical fiction for a number of years. I have four completed manuscripts, one of which I’m revising right now and expect to be done by January. A fifth new one is in the research and playing-around-in-my- head-and-on-paper stage.
There are two ready for agent query.
The Jossing Affair
A man left in the snow for dead, betrayed by innocent love. Fisherman receiving agents and arms from England. In wartime, love and trust are 
not always compatible.
My mainstream novel, The Jossing Affair, is set in occupied Norway in the last years of World War II. Posing as a deaf fisherman, British-trained Norwegian intelligence agent Tore Haugland is sent to a tiny fishing hamlet where he and Kjell Arneson, a local fisherman, set up a line to receive arms and agents from England via the “Shetland Bus.” His mission is complicated by the presence of German Anna Fromme, a widow with a small daughter and secrets of her own. Accused of betraying her husband, a family friend of Haugland’s, his suspicions of her change when he discovers that she is in fact, an American. She might be innocent.
Though the Allies have liberated France and the Netherlands, the most zealous of the Nazis hang on in Oslo. If Haugland fails it could not only cost him his life, but those of the fishermen who have joined him. When Haugland is eventually betrayed and left for dead, he will not only have to find the one who betrayed him and his men, but also prove that the one he loves was not the informer.
A PNWA finalist 2003. See excerpt at CreateSpace
Mist-shi-mus: A Novel of Captivity
Captive heart. Captive slave. Captive secrets of the past. Everyone is bound to something.
In 1860, Englishwoman Jeannie Naughton arrives in the Pacific Northwest. A young, unmarried mother, she poses as a widow to keep her 
reputation. When she meets Jonas Breed on an island under joint US and British military occupation, she senses a kindred spirit. Captured as a youth and held as a slave – a mist-shi-mus -by the Haida Indians, he uses his hard experience to move on and create a new life in the islands. Jeannie wants this for herself.
Jeannie stays with a British officer’s family but soon discovers the island supports an unusual community of Hawaiians and Indians. Breed introduces her to his many friends among them in Kanaka Town. When one falls ill with small pox Jeannie volunteers to care for him. Her actions endear her to the settlement. Restless in the English society at the British encampment, she is drawn to the free life Breed offers.
Jeannie loves Breed, but many distrust him for his friendship with the Haida and local Indians. He opposes American smuggler Emmett Krill who traffics native women. When a high born Haida woman is abducted and killed, violence breaks out. When Krill and Breed fight, Breed kills him but Breed himself is critically injured. Friends help Breed escape. Hoping to meet with Breed off-island, Jeannie goes with Breed’s friend, Andrew Pierce, to wait. Later Jeannie is told Breed died. Carrying his child, she feels her only choice is to marry Pierce.
Twenty years later, Jeannie receives a note. Breed is alive! Now Jeannie embarks on a journey to find him, unaware she is stirring up an old and dangerous struggle of power and revenge at which she is the heart
Thank you for your consideration!
