Holly Bush's historical romances are set during the turbulent and transformative years of the late 1800’s. Sometimes it shouts from the highest hill, and sometimes it whispers so softly one must listen closely to hear. Or could she?Īmazon | Barnes and Noble | Kobo About the Author He finds himself unable to put Miss Kirsty Thompson out of his thoughts, where they belonged, because certainly a beautiful, ambitious, and charming young woman could have no interest in him. Soon he comes to realize there is also danger for his heart, even for a man who rarely pulls his nose from a medical journal. What’s a gentleman to do? Albert cancels his trip across the ocean to escort Miss Thompson back to Philadelphia and finds there is danger afoot for her and her family. As he prepares to sail for just such an engagement, Kirsty Thompson boards his ship to beg him to take her with him. He speaks at universities in America and in England while visiting his London relatives. How will she ever escape her protective older siblings and sail to Scotland?Īlbert Watson is a medical doctor focusing on research, especially that of Joseph Lister and his sterilization techniques.

Real danger threatens Olive and Mary and John, while Jacob and his own brood battle the day-to-day struggles for survival.Meet the Thompsons of Locust Street, an unconventional family taking Philadelphia high society by storm…ġ870 Kirsty Thompson is determined to begin her own business bringing beloved Scottish fabrics and yarns to Philadelphia but first she must meet the men and women who weave the plaids and spin the wool. Her niece and nephew, Mary and John, have been living with a neighboring farmer, widower Jacob Butler, the father of three young children of his own and a man still in pain from the recent loss of his wife.

Accustomed to the sophistication of Philadelphia, Olive arrives in Spencer, Ohio, a rough and tumble world she is not familiar with, facing two traumatized children. She arrives to find the circumstances of her brother's life deplorable and her long held beliefs of family and tradition, shaken. Spinster librarian Olive Wilkins is shocked to learn of her brother's violent death at a saloon gaming table and her sister-in-law's subsequent murder, traveling far from her staid life to rescue her niece and nephew, now orphans.

Romancing Olive by Holly Bush