Tag: Jane Steen

  • REVIEW of The Shadow Palace (The House of Closed Doors #3), by Jane Steen

    REVIEW of The Shadow Palace (The House of Closed Doors #3), by Jane Steen

    In this third book in The House of Closed Doors series, Nell makes her way to Chicago with Sarah and Tess in tow. Thanks to the investments Martin has made in her behalf, she is an independent woman, with finances to maintain a comfortable establishment of her own. She longs to see the palatial Rutherford’s department store…

  • REVIEW of Eternal Deception (The House of Closed Doors #2), by Jane Steen

    REVIEW of Eternal Deception (The House of Closed Doors #2), by Jane Steen

    In this sequel to The House of Closed Doors, Nell Lillington leaves the Poor Farm with her infant daughter Sarah and friend Tess and journeys to Kansas where they hope to make a new life for themselves. Nell is hired as a seamstress for Eternal Light Seminary, the one stone building in a land of sod…

  • REVIEW of Lady Helena Investigates, by Jane Steen

    REVIEW of Lady Helena Investigates, by Jane Steen

    At first, the death of Lady Helena’s husband, Justin Whitcombe, seems nothing more than a senseless tragedy–an accidental drowning while he was trying to help a sheep trapped on the riverbank. But when handsome French physician Armand Fortier insists that the death might in fact be murder, Lady Helena must decide whether to investigate her…

  • REVIEW of The House of Closed Doors, by Jane Steen

    REVIEW of The House of Closed Doors, by Jane Steen

    By chance, the two historical novels I read this week were set within a decade of each other. They also proved an interesting contrast to each other, with one being a dyed-in-the-wool Christian romance, while the other gave merely a few pivotal references to an Almighty hand at work in the story. I think you…