Ruby Jean Jensen

The doll's name was Zenoa, and she has been in the family for generations. Every time she emerges from the shadowy attic, tragedy strikes. The last time she was discovered, Pam's entire family was found murdered, stabbed to death with an ice pick, a crime for which Pam was found guilty. Now, after serving 25 years in prison for murders she didn't commit, Pam has returned to the house where her family was killed, determined to destroy Zenoa once and for all. But the doll is nowhere to be found. And to Pam's horror, her cousin Justin has just announced his engagement to a beautiful young woman named Zenoa.

14-year-old Felicia can't remember what attacked her in the woods--she's only certain that it wasn't human. Nine months later, she gives birth to a shameful horror that her disgusted parents lock in the attic to save the family from shame. But her baby is determined to be reunited with its mother, and nothing will prevent it from escaping the attic once its full power is unleashed.

House of Illusions shares the heroine of Lady of the Reeds, Thu, a peasant girl from the village of Aswat. Because she possesses both beauty and wisdom, Thu is chosen and trained at court. She rises in favor only to be betrayed in a court intrigue that threatens her life. House of Illusions opens on Gedge's vividly recreated Egypt, sixteen years after Thu's banishment. Egyptian soldiers returning from missions down the Nile would occasionally pause in the village of Aswat to pray to the god of war, Wepwawet. The stories of the mad woman and her desperate pleas to have her manuscript delivered to Pharaoh are well known to them all. Kamen, a junior officer from Pharaoh's palace guard, is forced to stay a night in the dreaded village of Aswat. Taking pity on Thu, he agrees to deliver her beautifully bound manuscript to Pharaoh. He errs, however, in failing to follow her exact instructions, thus setting in motion a fateful chain of events that ends in a threat to the lives of many, including his own.

One hundred and thirty years after a strange religious cult is hunted down and a sycamore tree is planted over their graves, the tree is cut down by land developers and an unspeakably evil force reawakens.

When you die are you really done on Earth? Sara Connolly’s adopted daughter, Carrie has the gift of being able to talk to the dead. When women are found dead in the state insane asylum, Sara goes undercover and her daughter converses with the dead in the hopes of preventing another death. Will Amanda Black find the Light when her job on Earth is finished and her living son is safe? Maybe.

"Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world. Surely she must rely on her mother and her venal advisor, Sir John Conroy, or her uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, who are all too eager to relieve her of the burdens of power. The young queen is no puppet, however. She has very definite ideas about the kind of queen she wants to be, and the first thing is to choose her name. Everyone keeps saying she is destined to marry her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, but Victoria found him dull and priggish when they met three years ago. She is quite happy being queen with the help of her prime minister, Lord Melbourne, who may be old enough to be her father but is the first person to take her seriously. Drawing on Victoria s diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, as well as her own brilliant gifts for history and drama, Daisy Goodwin, author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter as well as creator and writer of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria, brings the young queen richly to life."--Amazon.com

A young boy describes his mother's struggles to feed, clothe, and protect her two sons using whatever resources she can muster, including stealing.

A collection of magazine pieces from 1960 to 1984 about topics Canadian.