The Serpentine Garden Path
Book One of The Compleat Gardener Series
The Serpentine Garden Path is the first book in a series of novels called "The Compleat Gardener." It is based on the true story of the author's ancestors. Susan Dean falls in love with her father's gardener John Dean and begins a saga that spans four novels. This first book, set in eighteenth century England and Scotland, relates her "riches to rags" romance.
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Maid of Gold
In 1852, Jane Inglis loses her job as a maid in Quebec City. In desperation, she rashly decides to follow a young man she barely knows on a five-month voyage to the other side of the world. She soon learns that the stories James Houghton has told her are not all true.
In Australia, Jane decides to make her own fortune. But nothing turns out to be as she easy as she hopes it will be: not panning for gold, nor cooking for gold fossickers, not even marrying the man she loves. After many trials and adventures, she boards a ship for another five-month voyage home alone, completing a circumnavigation of the globe.
In Quebec, she must face the consequences of her past rash acts. But a new life awaits her, unlike any she has dared to dream of.
Maid of Gold is a historical novel based on the lives of the author’s great-great-grandparents, Jane Inglis and James Houghton.
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