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Christy was the most famous American painter of the Jazz Age, a time when an elite brotherhood of New York artists dominated the publishing world. Christy had eclipsed all of them with his "Christy Girl", an idealized woman who redefined beauty, influenced fashion, and inspired generations of women. In Romantic Illusions, Christy once again comes to life through the eyes of Nancy Palmer. Christy, his wife and former model, as she recounts her first Christmas with Howard and his family at his Ohio mansion, the Barracks, in 1912.

New York - July 1976 - in a world in which New England remains the sparkling jewel in the crown of the British Empire. It is the day before Empire Day - July 4 - the day each year when the British Empire marks the brutal crushing of the rebellion dignified by the treachery of the 56 delegates to the Continental Congress who were so foolhardy as to sign the infamous Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on that day of infamy in 1776.

CASSANDRA’S SONG is the fourth book in the five-book strand about the FALKLANDS WAR OF 1969-70, and the twentieth book of the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. The waters around the Falkland Islands have turned into a windswept, storm-tossed killing ground as the troops have gone ashore. In the absence of the Hermes, half-crippled eight hundred miles away at Leith Harbour, South Georgia and the its screening nuclear submarines, an astonished world has seen the Argentine Navy and Air Force hurl itself at the South Atlantic Task Force in a paroxysm of near suicidal violence. Thousand ...

Aftermath is book one of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62 - USA. The Cuban Missile Crisis went wrong, and now the American people are about to start living with the consequences of the catastrophe. From New England to the Pacific Northwest, from Washington, DC, to San Francisco, Americans confront to their worst nightmare. Nobody wins a nuclear war.

The Gathering Place is the 10th book in the New England Series set in a universe in which George Washington died at the Battle of Long Island in 1776 and…the Revolutionary War was lost. Now, two hundred years later the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, the Commonwealth of New England, for so long dominated by the historic First Thirteen colonies is finally about to span the whole North American continent. The trouble is that although the War with the Triple Alliance has been won even as the guns on the Rio Grande fell silent, the Empire was confronted by an even greater ...

Rising Sun is the 11th book in the New England Series set in a universe in which George Washington died at the Battle of Long Island in 1776 and…the Revolutionary War was lost...and the Britannia's domain has literally been an empire on which the sun never sets for most of the last two hundred years! The Russian foothold in the Alaskan lands has been vanquished, the war with the Triple Alliance is over, almost history; and ‘the West’, specifically the vast former Californian lands of the old Spanish empire of New Granada is a freshly annexed colony of New England. For the first time a...

CHANGING OF THE GUARD is the TWENTY-SECOND book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is June 1970 and the reverberations of the war in the South Atlantic are rippling around the world but nowhere are the aftershocks so profound as in the United Kingdom and the Argentine. For both countries the political landscape has altered forever. It is not just the price in lives lost, human grief and the crippling damage both sides have inflicted on each other and themselves. The world has changed and an era is coming to an end. Nothing will ever be the same for the survivors, heroes and ...

The Divine Wind is the fifteenth book in the New England Series set in an alternative timeline in which George Washington’s Continental Army was wiped out at the Battle of Long Island in 1776, the American Revolution failed and New England in the latter half of the 20th Century is still part of the British Empire.... In the Pacific the Royal Navy has turned the tide but the bloody battle for the Marianas rages unabated. In Japan, confronted by the might of the global British Empire mobilising for total war, the Emperor and his military men begin to consider the unthinkable. In New England...

It is the late spring of 1978 in a world in which the American Revolution failed in 1776 after George Washington was killed and the Continental Army was destroyed at the Battle of Long Island. The rumbling aftershocks of the Empire Day atrocities which reverberated through Two Hundred Lost Years are threatening to come to the boil. While in Philadelphia the politics become ever more fractious in Spain the Royal Alcazar is a citadel besieged in a country which might as well still be stuck in the 19th century.

ARMADAS is the second book in the five-book strand about the FALKLANDS WAR OF 1969-70, and the eighteenth book of the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is October 1969. In a timeline altered by the Cuban Missiles War of October 1962, a British Task Force is gathering in the South Atlantic to take back the Falkland Islands from the Argentine invaders. The fighting begins...but can a war 8,000 miles from home for a windswept archipelago of which the bulk of the British people know little, fought in the name of fifteen hundred exiled people – the Falkland Islanders, or ‘Kelpers’ ...

INDEPENDENCE DAY is the twenty-third book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is October 1972 and the tenth anniversary of the October War approaches. For Marija and Peter, the President-designate and future First Man of Malta, Independence Day is almost upon them. The world is a very different place than it was in October 1962; whether its leaders have learned anything from the folly of their predecessors is of course, quite another matter. Much as it might seem as if a new, saner world order is beginning to assert itself not everything is what it seems to be and old enmities ...

Gathered on the Beach is the thirteenth and final instalment of the COUNTDOWN TO WAR prequel series of the Timeline 10/27/62 series. It is October 1962 and the USS Beale swings around her chains at Norfolk, her crew little knowing what part in the coming drama they will play. The outcome of the Cuban Missiles Crisis hung in the balance right up to the moment, it did not. In the desperate hours as the sides groped for a way out of the hole they had dug for themselves, a single misstep might have been disastrous and to this day most people do not realise that the Cold War very nearly went HOT...

It is July 1976 and history hangs heavily over Germania - the Welthauptstadt – ‘World Capital’ of the Europa Reich with its great Olympic Park built over the top of and dwarfing the footprint of Adolf Hitler’s 1936 stadia. Thirty years into the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Third Reich, the Summer Olympiad is returning to the city after a gap of four decades. For the first time since the Second World War the first city of the Reich is being opened up to the world media. While most people look forward to a festival of sport, and the Nazi regime to an ...

The 1976 Germania Olympiad, blighted by terrorism proved to be anything but the great propaganda triumph designed to accompany Reinhard Heydrich’s supposedly epoch-defining peace treaty with the United States. However, far from drawing a line under the crimes of the past, the Europa Reich is riven with generational and economic problems and never has the concept of a grandiose Roman-style Triumph to celebrate the disaster of the recent games and a token exculpation of the atrocities committed by the ‘Great’, wartime generation, been more divisive across a Reich attempting to re-write ...

Tom Paine's Bones is the fourteenth book in the New England Series set in an alternative timeline in which George Washington’s Continental Army was wiped out at the Battle of Long Island in 1776, the American Revolution failed and North America in the latter half of the 20th Century is still part of the British Empire.... In the war in the Pacific the Royal Navy has turned the tide and now Imperial forces have begun the long, bloody island-hopping advance upon the Japanese Home Islands. Back in New England the wars with the Mexicans and the Japanese have spurred a massive industrial ...

STUMBLING TOWARDS THE EDGE is the seventeenth book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It was originally – and confusingly, me culpe – published as a standalone novel but rightly belongs to the five-book strand about the FALKLANDS WAR OF 1969-70. It is February 1969. It is the seventh year after Cuban Missiles war derailed the modern world. In this altered timeline the swinging sixties did not happen and ever since the night of the October War in 1962, the survivors have lurched from one crisis to the next, often looking over their shoulders at the threat of new holocausts. At...

THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES is the tenth book of the COUNTDOWN TO WAR series. It is July 1962. A train of events which has been slowly, menacingly coalescing ever since October 1961 is beginning to play out. The end game is nigh. OPERATION ANADYR is morphing from a reckless whim in Nikita Khrushchev’s head into a huge, clandestine thermonuclear gamble. Historians are frequently astonished by the thought processes – or the lack of the same – of so-called ‘great men’. The capacity of leaders to believe their own rhetoric in the face of compelling evidence to the contrary is, it ...

🍂 When love feels impossible, the heart finds its own season. After her divorce shatters the life she built, Iris escapes the city and returns to her parents’ farmhouse for a fresh start. She tells herself she’s done with love — that peace is enough. Then she meets Sean, the steady, kind man who makes her laugh again. There’s just one problem: he’s dating her friend. As autumn settles over the little town, Iris faces a choice between loyalty and the quiet, undeniable pull of a new beginning. Sometimes the hardest part of healing is daring to feel again. Autumn is a tender small...

Exhausted and tormented by his own demons, Adam Chantrey discovers, amidst the chaos of war and loss, love and an unlikely inner peace up on the high wold of Lincolnshire while all around him the world is enveloped in madness. Bomber Command's hour of greatest trial - the Battle of Berlin - is approaching, and its long, dark shadow hangs over the young men who ride the heavies of the Main Force to Germany in the knowledge that a tour of bomber operations is a death sentence for two out of every three men.

Conventional wisdom is that if the Crown Colonies of the Commonwealth of New England ever unite in common purpose; then the Empire might fall. That this might happen at the very moment that century-old post-war settlement of the Treaty of Paris is threatening to fall apart, had been the unimaginable nightmare of generations of European monarchs, politicians, diplomats and generals The unthinkable is happening. Mexican troops are advancing through the South Western borderlands of New England; nothing can stop them. At sea, the supposedly invincible Royal Navy has been driven from the ...