Kit writes a newspaper story about how her dog, Grace, saved the Kittredges and their boarders from a house fire. Grace becomes a local celebrity, and all the attention is a lot of fun for Kit---until the night Grace mysteriously vanishes. Who would take Kit’s dog---and why?

Felicity has just said good-bye to her mother, who’s going on a trip and leaving Felicity in charge of the house. Mother’s carriage has barely left before a surprise package arrives, holding silver heirlooms that have been passed down in the Merriman family for a hundred years. Felicity doesn’t believe in ghosts…but what else can explain the odd and eerie things that begin to happen once the heirlooms arrive?

Felicity is alarmed when mysterious notices appear in Williamsburg, falsely accusing her friend Fiona’s father of helping the British. With the Revolution heating up, Felicity knows that the accusations will bring danger to Fiona’s family. Then Felicity’s father is accused of being a traitor, too, and Felicity decides that she has to find out who’s making the terrible accusations!

Felicity is spending the summer of 1776 at her family's plantation, King's Creek, where she rides her beloved horse, Penny, everyday. But Felicity soon hears frightening news that British soldiers are burning Patriot farms and stealing their animals. Could the British threaten King's Creek... and Penny?

Mysteries Through Time Series
(Skyview Books/Windmill Books, 2009)
(Originally published as part of the History Mystery series by Pleasant Company Publications, 1999)

It’s 1918. Pam Lowder and her papa raise the best homing pigeons on the North Carolina coast---homers with the rare ability to fly at night.  While Papa’s away in World War I, a stranger with a foreign accent comes to town. Soon Pam’s best birds start to disappear, and Pam is sure the stranger is stealing them. Instead, she finds evidence of something much worse. Could the stranger be an enemy spy, threatening everything Pam holds dear---even Papa?

Mysteries Through Time Series
(Skyview Books/Windmill Books, 2009)
(Originally published as part of the History Mystery series by Pleasant Company Publications, 1999)

It’s 1914. Who is the mysterious new boarder in Susan’s tenement? Her suspicions lead her into the midst of the suffrage movement.

Mysteries Through Time Series
(Skyview Books/Windmill Books, 2009)
(Originally published as part of the History Mystery series by Pleasant Company Publications, 2000)

It’s 1865. Near the end of the Civil War, 12-year-old Cassie Willis learns that her brother Jacob has been killed while fighting in the Confederate army. Torn by grief, she runs to the secret thicket in the piney woods that she and Jacob loved---and stumbles into the hideout of a crazed deserter. Cassie escapes, but she can’t forget the deserter’s threats…or shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Is the deserter spying on her family from the woods, planning to steal from them---or worse?

Mysteries Through Time Series
(Skyview Books/Windmill Books, 2009)
(Originally published as part of the History Mystery series by Pleasant Company Publications, 2001)

It’s 1724. Soon after Rachel Howell joins her wealthy father in Charles Town, South Carolina, she becomes friends with Sally, the tavern-keeper’s daughter. When 12-year-old Rachel is forbidden to see Sally, the girls find a secret meeting place---a deserted island in the Ashley River. There they discover mysterious carvings, a human skull, and more. Will Rachel survive a harrowing chase with pirates to solve the island mystery?

Mysteries Through Time Series
(Skyview Books/Windmill Books, 2009)
(Originally published as part of the History Mystery series by Pleasant Company Publications, 2003)

It’s 1895. Rhoda Midyette has lived all her life on Glenn Island, where her father is keeper of the U.S. Lifesaving Station. But she’s never before seen the odd light she now glimpses at night moving across the cape above Graveyard Shoal. Could it be the ghost of a shipwrecked sea captain who is said to haunt the island? Or is it something just as impossible: an islander---a friend or neighbor--- shining a light to lure ships to their destruction on the dangerous shoals?