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Anna Brentwood
Anna was a bookworm almost since birth and is recognized as a writing PRO (2002) and PAN member (2015) by Romance Writers of America. An active professional member of Willamette Writers, RWA, the Rose City Romance Writers and NIWA, Anna graduated from Philadelphia’s, University of the Arts where she majored in Illustration. She pursued a versatile career in design, graphic arts, publications and public relations in Southern California before being lured to the Oregon wilderness by her desire to write professionally and raise her family in wholesome and healthy surroundings.
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Speakeasies! Gangsters! Flappers!
In 1918, Kansas City is Sin City. Forced to leave home at age fourteen, beautiful Hannah Glidden struggles to survive but with help from her childhood friend, Meg, mistress to a wealthy man and the irrepressible, flapper extraordinaire, Rosie, she thrives as a cabaret singer.
The early 20's roared. Fortunes were made or lost in a single night, and criminals mingled with kings. Neither the government nor prohibition could stop the flow of alcohol or the lure of the "good life". Handsome rum runner, Johnny Gallo is part of New York's large growing criminal empire where the sky is the limit. The ruthless Gallo has a knack for knowing the right people, and a single-minded devotion to getting what he wants. And, he wants Hannah.
Hannah goes with Johnny to Al Capone's Chicago and eventually to Brooklyn, New York where she basks in the glamourous shadow world of gangsters and their gals. Johnny becomes a force to be reckoned with but in time the free-spirited Hannah clashes with her controlling lover.
She faces the dark side of her dreams but dares to defy Johnny despite the dangers and unwittingly discovers that for her, dying might be the only true path to freedom after all.
THE SONGBIRD WITH
THE SAPPHIRE EYES |
Struggling to unravel the secrets of her father’s past while coming to terms with her own, a young woman finds a hidden treasure containing a brooch reputed to have the power to connect the living to the dead.
Tying into her debut novel, ‘The Songbird With Sapphire Eyes’ and the sequel, ‘Anthony’s Angel’, Anna Brentwood’s newest historical the ‘Mermaid’s Treasure’ is the unabridged version of a story that first appeared in the Windtree Press Anthology, ‘The Gift of Christmas.’ Truth is expertly woven with fiction into a riveting story about a sunken Russian battleship, a failed mission, a mysterious treasure, family legacies, the holiday season and learning to believe in the magic of love.
MERMAID'S TREASURE
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