Bücher von Jan Elpel

Jessica Svetlana Gilkova discovers that pseudonyms are passportsto the world, poetry becomes the song of dissidents, and fashionis the language of freedom when the true self is denied. Drawninto the underworld of the Society of Poets by poet Alexsei, shebecomes suspicious of his carefree life. She finds mysterious missionsof dissidents caught in Cold War Russia threaten her hautecouture boutique in Leningrad, that repression forces people andrelationships to hide behind personas and facades.Meanwhile Viktor champions Jessica, a woman entrepreneur,while one of his stated desires is to obtain a fiery opal pendantformerly owned by the nobility. Overcoming denial and intrigue,she discovers he is a man with a mission

Heirloom China is a murder mystery that pits Patrick Colter's obsession against unknown forces in the silver mining town of Butte, Montana Territory, 1877 - 1879. Patrick risks all for a chance to solve a cold case in revenge of his role model and mentor, a man who inspired him to attend Harvard and bring law and justice to the Territory. His wife, Shelley, becomes a rising star in the movement for women's equality and the vote, which threatens Patrick's sense of a man's place and position. Heirloom China is the third novel in the trilogy and traces the early women's suffrage movement from East to West, 1877 - 1879, a sliver of time prior to the rise of copper kings of Butte.