Jane Holmes: 30 books

Young Annie Strong escapes her toilsome New-England life when she marries Ernest Walsingham Haverleigh, who owns a large chateau in France. Written by Mary Jane Holmes (1825 – 1907), transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1880 New York print edition. 13 Chapters, 43,800 words Contains...

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When Summer Stone moves to the small city of Stonehurst, New Hampshire, she prays she's escaped the person who wants to kill her. No so. In Just a few short weeks the murderer locates her and attempts on her life continue. Can she escape the visious death her attacker has planned for her? Can law enforcement and a local PI capture this homicidal maniac before its too late?

When a prominent Stonehurst, New Hampshire banker is murdered, Sam Garth, PI and the Stonehurst PD collaborate in solving this bizarre case. At the same time, Sam is called upon to investigate the alleged criminal activities of his best friend, a challenge he does not  relish. When his office...

When a prominent wealthy widow dies everyone believes it is from old age. Not so. When an autopsy is done at the deceased's request and the results are announced all hell breaks loose. Who murdered Eloise Vanderbrochen? The Stonehurst PD are taken halfway around the world to apprehend the...

The tale of Rosa Lee, from her earliest recollections of Meadow Brook, a small community located in western Massachusetts, to the beginning of her writing career, in publishing this story as her first novel.  Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1858 New York edition.

Rather than return from school in Canandaigua to an oppressive home life with her spinster Aunt, Edna Browning instead chooses to elope with Charlie Churchill, the apparent heir to the vast Leighton fortune.  Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1872 New York printing.

Everyone in Rothsay including old Judge Forrest believes that young Everard Forrest, Esq. will someday marry Beatrice Belknap. But not Everard! Oh, he has always adored her, but as ‘Bee’ is a full year his senior, he cannot fathom the match. Judge Forrest pushes the issue, and Everard loses his...

'Mid the New England hills, and beneath the shadow of their dim old woods, is a running brook whose deep waters were not always as merry and frolicsome as now; for years before our story opens, pent up and impeded in their course, they dashed angrily against their prison walls, and turned the creaking...

Child bride Marian Lindsey flees her Kentucky manse believing her new husband loves another more beautiful than she, but has wed her only for her vast estate. Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1865, New York edition.

Hugh Worthington is a young plantation owner near Frankfort, Kentucky, who has forsworn any interest in the ladies vying for his attention, as he remains haunted by the memory of a long-lost 'Golden Haired' maiden.  Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow.

Explore the beach adventures with the boys, and their family experiences the thrill and fun when the boys dig into the ground and find different objects and playing with their family in the water and sand. One of the boys finds a treasure box and learn about sharing. Furthermore, see how Miracle helps...