Former history professor Cate Kensie must travel across time and work through a myriad of challenges, as she scrambles to not lose her family home and locate the previous Countess, now missing.

Cate knew she had seen those jewels before.As her eyes scanned the newspaper article from 1925, she is shocked to read about the theft of two priceless necklaces from her family's home. When Cate recognizes one of the stolen necklaces from when she traveled back in time to the year 1856 to solve a murder mystery, Cate knows there's only one thing left for her to do. She must travel to 1925 and unravel the mystery surrounding the jewelry theft. However, things take an unexpected turn when she arrives. As Cate begins to find more unanswered questions, she starts to wonder if there's a piece to the puzzle she has yet to uncover. While Cate and estate manager, Jack, try to unravel the puzzle in the past, another mystery brews in the present for Cate. She suddenly begins having strange and eerie nightmares centered around a bookcase in Dunhaven Castle's library. She begins to wonder if there is something darker surrounding the long-lost necklaces. Can Cate solve the mysterious theft of her family's jewelry? Will the bookcase hold the secrets to the past? If it does, will Cate be able to decipher the clues on its shelves? Or is there something more sinister at work in Dunhaven Castle? Find out if Cate has what it takes to solve the newest mysteries at Dunhaven Castle in Holiday Heist at Dunhaven Castle, book three of the riveting cozy mystery series Cate Kensie Mysteries.

Still reeling after the sudden death of her parents, Dr. Catherine Kensie is struggling to pursue her career as a history professor at a small, midwestern college. With no known family, other than her beloved dog, Riley, Cate is astonished when a stranger appears on her doorstep to tell her that she has inherited a castle in Scotland and an antique gold watch accompanied by a mysterious note from a distant relative. When the will stipulates that she must live on the estate, Cate finds the promise of exploring her past impossible to decline. With nothing to hold her back and a desperate desire to surround herself with a familial connection, Cate and Riley say goodbye to their hometown and make the trek across the pond to their new Scottish home.Soon after arriving, Cate finds castle life to be less than a fairy tale, suspecting something may be amiss in her new home. Between strange events and peculiar manifestations, Cate begins to question her own sanity when it appears that she is the only one experiencing these bizarre incidents. She attempts to make sense of what is happening as she struggles to explain the increasingly unexplainable. With a shroud of mystery enveloping her and Riley, will Cate discover the secret of Dunhaven Castle?

After a recent dramatic change in her life with a surprise inheritance of a castle in the Scottish countryside, Dr. Catherine Kensie, now a Countess, and her beloved pup, Riley, are still settling into their new home, complete with its own quirks. Cate plans a quiet life, intending to pen a book about the castle's history and its inhabitants. Relying on information from the local historical society, who has persuaded introverted Cate to host a Halloween ball fundraiser at the castle, Cate stumbles upon the story of a centuries old murder. One of her ancestors was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death row, leaving behind his beloved wife and infant child. The story shocks Cate who, after reading private correspondence between her ancestor and his wife, believes he could not have committed the crime. She is further convinced after her research shows he supplied an alibi for the time of the murder. Aside from her party planning duties and growing role as Countess of the county, Cate, along with her estate manager and new friend, Jack Reid, decide to investigate, hoping to clear her ancestor's name. Cate unknowingly jeopardizes both her and Jack's lives in as she plays a dangerous cat and mouse game to pursue the truth and clear her ancestor's name. Will they be able to solve the mystery of the murder at Dunhaven Castle or will Dunhaven Castle claim another victim?

Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the author Their name is everywhere. America’s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts, from their mansions in northern Delaware’s “Chateau Country,” have long been leaders in the relentless drive to turn the United States into a plutocracy. The Du Pont story in this country began in 1800. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, official keeper of the gunpowder of corrupt King Louis XVI, fled from revolutionary France to America. Two years later he founded the gunpowder company that called itself “America’s armorer”—and that President Wilson’s secretary of war called a “species of outlaws” for war profiteering. Du Pont Dynasty introduces many colorful characters, including “General” Henry du Pont, who profited from the Civil War to build the Gunpowder Trust, one of the first corporate monopolies; Alfred I. du Pont, betrayed by his cousins and pushed out of the organization, landing in social exile as the powerful “Count of Florida”; the three brothers who expanded Du Pont’s control to General Motors, fought autoworkers’ right to unionize, and then launched a family tradition of waging campaigns to destroy FDR’s New Deal regulatory reforms; Governor Pete du Pont, who ran for president and backed Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Republican Revolution; and Irving S. Shapiro, the architect of Du Pont’s ongoing campaign to undermine effective environmental regulation. From plans to force President Roosevelt from office, to munitions sales to warlords and the rising Nazis, to Freon’s damage to the planet’s life-protecting ozone layer, to the manufacture of deadly gases and the covered-up poisoning of Du Pont workers, to the reputation the company earned for being the worst polluter of America’s air and water, the Du Pont reign has been dappled with scandal for centuries. Culled from years of painstaking research and interviews, this fully documented book unfolds like a novel. Laying bare the bitter feuds, power plays, smokescreens, and careless unaccountability that erupted in murder, Colby pulls back the curtain on a dynasty whose formidable influence continues to this day. Suppressed in myriad ways and the subject of the author’s landmark federal lawsuit, Du Pont Dynasty is an essential history of the United States.

This work embraces the ancestors & descendants of John Greene, surgeon (1590-1659) who married Joanne Tattershall in 1619 and immigrated from Salisbury, County Wilts, England to Boston Massachusetts in 1635. He settled in Warwick Rhode Island. He married three times due to the unexpected death of his 1st and 2nd wife. He had a long and active political life, holding office almost continuously throughout his life. Descendants primarily lived in the eastern United States.

Aislinn Hennessy pens tales of courage, loyalty, and true love, but her heroes of old are pure fantasy-figments of her imagination. She long ago gave up thinking a knight in shining armor would sweep her off her feet, but then she never expected to run him off the road either. Sir Dougray Fitzpatrick has buried one wife and vows to never love again-but destiny has other plans for this 16th century Irish Lord. During a battle, a mist separates Dougray from his men and casts him into the future. Dougray must return to Dunhaven and to his century, but Aislinn follows him into the mist, leaving him no choice, but to take her home with him. Conspiracies, feuds and unexpected violence are commonplace threats, but along the way, Aislinn and Dougray discover a surprise neither one expects: a chance for love even when they're Lost in the Mist of Time.

Josie is having terrifying nightmares?And she can't make sense of them.During the day she's a typical twenty-five-year-old woman, but at night all she keeps seeing is blood?On her hands.When a mysterious man drops an antique music box on her doorstep, Josie is intrigued, especially when he leaves her a note?And calls her by the name Celine.Promising her all the answers she's looking for, Josie takes off with the mystery man and embarks on a journey to find out why she's having nightmares, who Celine is and, most importantly, what lies hidden underneath the surface.As danger is confronted and more information is revealed, Josie is completely unprepared to learn what lies at the heart of these strange occurrences.And who-or what-she really is?Shadows of the Past is Book One of the Shadow Slayers Stories series and is a supernatural suspense mystery novel for people who love fast-paced action, secret identities and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Get Shadows of the Past now.