Renee Yancy
Renee Yancy has been living vicariously through historical fiction since she was a young girl. Some of her favorite books are Shogun by James Clavell, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, and Cold Sassytree by Olive Ann Burns. She discovered Anya Seton and Pearl Buck in her teens, and spent her freshman year in high school reading every book about Cornwall, England that she could find. She is an archaeology buff as well and plans to go on a dig someday. Her goal is to make her stories as historically and archaeologically accurate as possible. Every object she describes, from jewelry, dishes, furniture and glassware, are actually in museums all over the world. The food and recipes in her books are authentic recipes gleaned from intensive research. She has visited Ireland, Scotland, and England to stand in the places where her characters lived.
Renee Yancy has been living vicariously through historical fiction since she was a young girl. Some of her favorite books are Shogun by James Clavell, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, and Cold Sassytree by Olive Ann Burns. She discovered Anya Seton and Pearl Buck in her teens, and spent her freshman year in high school reading every book about Cornwall, England that she could find. She is an archaeology buff as well and plans to go on a dig...
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The Test of Gold: Hearts of Gold Series
Heiress Evangeline “Lindy” Lindenmayer has been groomed since childhood to marry into the British aristocracy in order to fulfil her mother’s ambition for a royal title in the family. But literature fascinates Lindy far more than ballgowns, and she spends all her free time in the library, the only room in the 5th Avenue mansion where she can...
More Precious Than Gold: Hearts of Gold Series Book 2
When artistic, middle-class Kitty Winthrop discovers the grandmother she always believed dead is actually the uber-wealthy leader of New York high society, Kitty jumps at the chance to make her debut into that world despite her mother’s disapproval.
But all that glitters isn’t gold, and Kitty soon realizes that ball gowns, jewels and fancy...
A Secret Hope
Ciara of Tir Maic is living a lie. For most of her young life she’s hidden a secret that means death if it’s discovered. Although she is studying to become a druidess, she doubts the power of the gods she is to serve and dares to hope there is more to the universe than the spirits of fire and water she has been taught to worship from her...
