Avalon Books

Bridget O’Shea had sworn she’d never fall in love again. She had a hotel, The Black Swan, to operate alone, since her sisters—Catherine and Alice—had both married the previous year. And then there was Ella, her lovely baby daughter. The hotel and Ella took up...

Ira McNewell was supposed to be dead. The government had sent a telegram saying he had been killed in action, yet there he was, sprawled out beneath Alice on the floor of the Black Swan Hotel. For a minute, she thought she’d died when she...

Catherine O’Shea is the oldest and most responsible of the three O’Shea sisters. She has just buried her mother, one of the last victims of the flu epidemic of 1918. Her father was one of the first to succumb to the flu and her fiancé...