Books with author Corra Harris

When shy Jenny Cooper goes to stay with her cousin Jane Austen, she knows nothing of the world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance that Jane inhabits. At fifteen, Jane is already a sharp observer of the customs of courtship. So when Jenny falls utterly in love with Captain Thomas Williams, who better than Jane to help her win the heart of this dashing man? But is that even possible? After all, Jenny’s been harboring a most desperate secret. Should it become known, it would bring scandal not only to her, but also to the wonderful Austen family. What’s a poor orphan girl to do? In this delicious dance between truth and fiction, Cora Harrison has crafted Jenny’s secret diary by reading everything Jane Austen wrote as a child and an adult, and by researching biographies, critical studies, and family letters. Jenny’s diary makes the past spring vividly to life and provides insight into the entire Austen family—especially the beloved Jane.

Thirteen-year-old Kitty is leaving the family home of Drumshee. As nursemaid to Lady Victoria Fitzgerald's little niece and nephew, Tabitha and Robert, she will sail across the Atlantic to far-off America - on board the greatest ship that man has ever made ... But even amid the splendid wonders of the Titanic, Kitty can't help remembering her grandmother's premonition. Kitty has brought with her the gold necklace which has been in her family for thousands of years - even though her grandmother warned her that bad luck would come to anyone who took the necklace away from Drumshee. And then disaster strikes. And as the Titanic slowly sinks and the terrified passengers begin to panic, Kitty realises that little Tabitha is missing ...

An unfairly harsh judge meets a gruesome end in the latest intriguing Burren mystery. It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent Atlantic. When Mara, Brehon of the nearby kingdom of the Burren, comes to investigate, she knows that her first suspects have to be the five young men who had received such savage sentences for minor crimes. But there are others in the frame: the nephew of the former Brehon, a man with the power of the Tudor court behind him. The child bride who hated her husband. The ill-treated apprentice. And who was it who was seen on that moonlit night by the confused and elderly Fergus Mac Clancy?