Books

Can two women get the lowdown on high society?

In 1913, a society writer and a former lady’s maid join forces to find the truth and avenge the wrongful death of a friend.

Louisa Delafield and Ellen Malloy didn’t ask to be thrown together to bring the truth to light, but the unlikely pair navigate a soul-crushing class system to challenge the...

Louisa Delafield survived the abduction. The panic attacks remind her every day, and she knows that her past will never truly release her.

But it won’t hinder her commitment to defending the powerless. Traveling through the Wild West, she must confront her fears and fight a ruthless procurer to save innocent girls from the horrors of sex...

From anarchists in New York City to a raging inferno in the ancient city, Louisa and Ellen face danger and heartache head-on.

When Louisa is sent on what seems like a simple assignment in Florida, death follows her. A guest at a high-society wedding is found dead with a stolen diamond in his hand, and Louisa is determined to uncover the truth....

Torn between kinship and conscience, between duty and truth.

After the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, New York society writer Louisa Delafield and her assistant Ellen Malloy join in the hunt for German saboteurs who are employing biological and chemical warfare on American soil.

Their hunt takes them through all levels of American society,...

New baby, new friends, passionate crusades, and deadly challenges for Louisa and Ellen!

While Ellen tries to get her new magazine, The Ladies’ Lantern, off the ground, Louisa makes it her mission to find out who is killing Broadway investors and why.

The newest member of the Delafield & Malloy family, Carlotta, takes charge of caring for Ellen...

1917: Two women. Two cities on the edge of chaos. One bond that defies distance.

In New York City, “discreet investigator” Louisa Delafield is caught between her desire for a safe, happy life with her fiancé Francis Holland and her duty to her friends and her country. When British intelligence offers her a mission to Petrograd, Louisa faces her...

Coming in 2026! Louisa and Ellen continue their investigations as the Bolshevik revolution kicks into high gear in 1917 Petrograd!

Louisa Delafield steps up to protect Theda Bara, the silent film star, from a blackmailing tabloid editor and an ex-convict stalker!

In this 1916 extension of the Louisa Delafield & Ellen Malloy Investigations series, Louisa fights against the dark side of fame in the early days of the motion picture industry.

One of the first pre-Hollywood...

A daughter’s memoir of sacrifice and discovery as her ailing mother’s caretaker is “an inspiring story of love, loss and the ravages of aging” (Kirkus).

Like all mothers, mine had a set of maxims that she thought were important to impart to me: if you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all (unless it’s irresistibly funny); it’s...

Trish spends her time hustling and cheating to score. Heroin, Dilauids, whatever she can get.

Precisely plotting the slippery slope of a heroin addict’s existence, The Hummingbird Kiss paints a bleak picture but still manages to offer a ray of hope. The ’70s are young, and 18-year-old Trish is a newlywed. When a Florida judge sentences her junkie...

Jen Johanssen is a former porn actor trying to fit into the world of academia. Her sister, Lolly Johanssen, is a cancer survivor. Nicole Parks is in prison for loving the wrong guy. And Sonya Yakowski, also in prison, is a member of a family of traveling criminals, desperately missing her young son. The lives of these four women converge in a...

When her beloved step-grandmother, a semi-retired opera singer, dies of cancer in 1970, 15-year-old Eli Burnes runs away with a draft-dodger, thinking she’s on the road to adventure and romance. What she finds instead is a world of underground Weathermen, Black Power revolutionaries, snitches and shoot-first police. Eventually Eli is rescued by...

The Lullaby Motel is about girls eager to discard their innocence, and women yearning to regain it.
Set in Florida’s land of bare feet, rain puddles, sandspurs, palmettos, giant multi-colored grasshoppers and alarmingly pink azaleas, these stories take place where garish development rises temporarily out of the primordial swamps. Whether the...