Found Family

Seamstress, spy, survivor?A gripping and emotional tale of courage, love, and resistance.After witnessing the brutal nature of the Nazi regime, Hannah, a quiet Jewish girl with a rebellious streak, escapes Germany with her traumatised young son. Leaving behind her dreams, she seeks refuge in Paris with a childhood friend, Kat, in the hopes that this tie to her past will provide a desperately needed sanctuary for them both. Though reluctant because of her own precarious situation, Kat agrees to help. 

Read the first three chapters of the first book in the series, Emily's Cat Mysteries. It is a heartwarming and heart-wrenching story of loss, companionship, grief, and hope with a dead body thrown in. Emily has always wanted a cat, but her sister Ruth is allergic to them. When Emily finally has a home, and the pandemic arrives, she hopes to stave off the loneliness of working from home with a kitten. Jeffrey is nearly two years old and has lived most of his life in shelter cages. Because he is solid black, he was never adopted as a kitten. 

For the first time since the world ended, Ellen feels at home.

Ellen has survived the end of the world by keeping her head down and her heart locked tight.

Harriet Blackthorn has never been the kind of woman to accept the place society has chosen for her. But in Victorian England, independence is a dangerous ambition. Widowed at just twenty, Harriet loses everything. Without fortune, family or protection, she is cast into a world where a woman's survival depends upon the goodwill of others-and where trust can prove as dangerous as poverty itself. 

Basutoland, 1922. A young boy is stolen from his home in the mountains, stripped of his past, and forced into a life of shadows.Decades later in Durban, Penrose has built a fragile peace for the family who rely on him. But when a vengeful neighbour uncovers his secret, Penrose must choose: stay hidden and lose himself forever, or stand tall and face the danger he spent a lifetime outrunning.How much of himself must he sacrifice to keep his family safe?