Bücher von Loveman Laurie Loveman

"THE CHARACTERS ARE STRONG PEOPLE BEING TESTED BY THE TIMES. THE DEPRESSION BACKDROP IS IMMEDIATE AND SEAMLESS. WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE THERE" --Writers Digest Self-Published Books-- Over the space of several weeks in the summer of 1935, 13 starving horses and ponies are left in Woodhill, Ohio. The people of Woodhill rally behind horse owner Laura Darvey and newly arrived Ramona Hernandez, to help restore the abused horses to health. The unknown person behind the arrival of the horses earns the nickname, The Horse Fairy, but The Horse Fairy is not out to save lives; he is Bobby Darvey, a gangster determined to harm Laura and Fire Chief Jake McCann to avenge his cousin's death by bringing in the abused horses to pass on a disease that will kill all of Laura's horses. He is also determined to see Jake publicly humiliated and forced out of his job. For this, Bobby uses two Woodhill residents who want to oust Jake from the chief's job for their own agenda. Among the victims in Bobby's scheme are Alex Carpenter and Nelson Dobos, who learn too late that Alex's son, Bill, is working for Bobby and could be a danger to them both. With advice from his father, New York City homicide detective J. P. McCann, and the help of Woodhill Police Chief, Matt Gardner, Jake teams up with Bobby's top man, Benjy Talbot, to stop Bobby from carrying out his plans for vengeance. "THIS WOODHILL, OHIO SERIES DEMONSTRATES AND DOCUMENTS LAURIE LOVEMAN AS A MASTER STORYTELLER WITH A SUPERB GRASP OF HER CRAFT." --James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review--

Linda Marie Newman and Jenny Donnelly have been rescuing girls and young women from sex traffickers in 1930s New York City. Wealthy politically and socially prominent Alderman Jayden Wallace has been enjoying the income from trafficking until his operation is threatened by Linda Marie and Jenny. When Linda Marie and Jenny are called upon by their friend, Captain Will Peterson, to help Sammi, a teenager involved in prostitution, they are reunited with an old friend, Sharon Beckhurst. Convinced the women are stealing his girls to start their own brothel, Wallace enlists help from the Mob to find them. When Sammi's friend, Conrad, also becomes Wallace's target, Linda Marie sends him to safety in Woodhill, Ohio, where her estranged son is a firefighter. Linda Marie must let go of the past to allow for a new future, but will it be in New York City or in a small Ohio town?

The first in the series of Firehouse Family novels, MEMORIES begins the story of the tumultuous, passionate, and forbidden love affair of Jake McCann and Laura Darvey. In the height of Prohibition, after suffering the terrible loss of firefighter friends in one fire, followed by the death of his wife and son in another fire, former New York City Fire Captain Jake McCann is appointed fire chief in the small town of Woodhill, Ohio. The town may be small, but the trouble and turmoil in Woodhill are not. Jake is joined by two friends, Freddy Pratter and Mickey Justini, who are appointed to the fire department with Jake. Like Jake, they have their own personal demons. Sharing an interest in horses, Jake falls in love with Laura Darvey, a woman who is married to a local bootlegger and operator of a protection racket. The affair causes the three friends to become tangled in a series of horrifying crimes that force them all to unexpectedly face their demons.