Note to readers: This novella originally appeared in the cozy mystery anthology, Silent Fright.When the holiday party goes from Ho-Ho-Ho to Oh-No-No!In the charming town of Orange Grove Christmas traditions abound from streetlights adorned with garland and wreaths to festive annual parties. For Sam Gordon it was supposed to be all about holiday cheer, catching up with old friends, and indulging in too many Christmas cookies.But when her friend's ann...

Exploring the castle is all fun and games, until you trip over a murder.Sam Gordon takes a temporary nanny position at Rothenberg Castle in the bucolic English countryside.What she thinks will be a fun and relaxing working vacation becomes intriguing and adventurous when the kids share that their sprawling home is haunted.In her efforts to prove a logical explanation, Sam and the kids uncover a gruesome secret from the past.And as they searc...

This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women’s lives. It moves beyond men’s prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. The contributors show that women’s lives changed over the life course and differed according to region and social class. They also demonstrate that in the early modern period the largely private spaces in women’s lives were not enclosed wo...