She had a dream, but reaching her goal seemed as dark as night . . .Fresh from medical school in the 1860s—and a woman at that—the young Dr. Cheney Duvall struggles to find a position. She has almost given up hope when Asa Mercer turns up. He wants her services to chaperone and care for two hundred brides-to-be on a sea voyage from New York to Washington Territory. Cheney jumps at the opportunity. Accompanied by an unlikely nurse, Shiloh Irons, Cheney finds herself ...

It's Not Me, It's You is not just a book... It's a reckoning. A mirror. A permission slip.In these deeply reflective, emotional, and candid pages, Nicole Morris invites readers to question the roles they've been praised for playing: the overachiever, the emotional caretaker, the peacemaker. With unflinching honesty, she examines the unspoken, and often unacknowledged harm those roles may have caused. She asks what happens when we, especially those of us wh...

With New Orleans as their destination, Cheney Duvall and her nurse, Shiloh Irons, leave behind the glittering lights of New York City and travel first to Charleston, South Carolina, intending to stay for only a short time. But the purpose of their stop immediately draws them into the plight of this war-torn Southern city, in the painful throes of Reconstruction and carpetbagger policies after the Civil War.As Cheney and Shiloh are embroiled in the political, social, and economic tr...

Cheney is back in familiar surroundings, but her heart yearns for something else . . .Cheney returns to New York from the Ozark Mountains, where she worked hard trying to care for the mountain folks. New York brings new challenges. Cheney now treats New York's wealthy elite as part of a private practice she shares with Devlin Buchanan, the handsome doctor who had once proposed to her. When an outbreak of cholera sweeps the city bringing tragedy in its wake, Cheney m...

In San Francisco, Cheney—with the support of Shiloh—fights with the hospital staff of St. Francis for the fair treatment of their city's "undesirables." Then catastrophe strikes, and she discovers that none of her medical education has prepared her for such an overwhelming disaster. With so many severe injuries, who will help her?

A disturbing letter from Cheney's great-aunts brings her to their New Orleans plantation—but what she discovers is more dangerous than she imagined! Performing rituals and "warnings"—leading to mysterious illnesses and crop failure—a cult is trying to scare Cheney's relatives off the land. Can she unearth the group's sudden interest in the plantation before it's too late?

Bestselling author Lynn Morris weaves an inspirational Regency era romance rich in period detail.When her stepfather suddenly dies, Valeria Segrave finds she must take charge of her grieving mother and the vast estate which now belongs to her six-year-old half brother, the new Earl of Maledon. Though capable, Valeria is frustrated to find each day brings a new struggle as she tries to establish her authority with servants, stewards, and solicitors-all men. As a you...

Cheney faces two enemies—superstition and greed . . .Cheney Duvall has proven herself as a true doctor to those 200 brides with whom she traveled to the West. But arrival in Seattle with a string of medical successes during the voyage does not open any doors for her in this frontier town—she's "just a woman." Returning east, she finds an invitation to a remote spot in the Ozark mountains where there are no doctors at all. But she runs into walls of illiteracy, super...

Book one of The Creoles Series, captivating novels from bestselling authors Gilbert and Lynn Morris, introduces Chantel Fontaine. Readers follow Chantel through the streets and swamps of Louisiana as she falls in love, faces the loss of both her parents, and searches for the baby sister she thought was lost forever.The culture of the citizens of nineteenth-century New Orleans was as varied and intriguing as their complexions-French, Spanish, African, and American. As the layers of ...

Lynn Morris, bestselling author of The Baron's Honourable Daughter, once again sweeps readers into the Regency era with striking period detail.Lady Mirabella Tirel, the beautiful daughter of the Marquess of Camarden, takes a practical approach to love since a dashing captain broke her heart at age 17. Now at almost 22 years old, she has decided to endure one last London season to secure a suitable engagement and begin a simple life in the country.S...

Cheney and Dr. Walker Baird, her colleague from St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco, arrive in Hawaii to try to convince Shiloh Irons to return with them. Though Shiloh believes the Winslows might be his long-lost family, Cheney has discovered some disturbing facts about Bain Winslow and has traveled all this way to warn her friend.She and Walker set out to help Shiloh unravel the mysteries that seemingly surround the Winslows' determination to drive him from the island. But with...

Book 2 of Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance. Cheney and Shiloh Irons-Winslow return to New York from their honeymoon and enthusiastically begin work--Shiloh at Winslow Brothers Shipping and Cheney in her medical career. But their tranquility is shattered when Cheney discovers that a young doctor she hired as an assistant hides a scandal in his past and possibly murder in his heart! Danger and plot twists abound as the Morrises pen yet another thrilling chapter in the continuing saga of th...