Jess Wells

In the 1850 Gold Rush, San Francisco was a city filled with chaos and greed. Aidan OReilly, an enterprising Irishman, poses as an undertaker to bury the secrets of the upper class fraudulent contracts, incriminating letters, and even murder victims. His caskets and mausoleums also contain his...

In 1465 a simple pocketful of herbs could get you burned at the stake, but Luccia Alimenti, daughter of one of the legendary women doctors called Salernistas, travels Europe secretly distributing medical texts to midwives and herbalists....

Two extraordinary women in 1865 establish a trading post in a southern jungle that grows to be a safe haven for cast-off women and the dispossessed....

Love, loss, irony, and humor abound in the lives of eight families living around Loon Lake, a shallow fishing spot in Northern Michigan....

After surviving the horrors of the Black Death, a lapsed nun takes to the road alone, protected from rain and robbers by the skin of a bear. In 1351, many in England begin thinking that their mighty overlords - Church and Crown - have no control over their fates and a new horizon beckons. It’s...