A Necessary Death by Terri Karsten takes readers on a journey back to pre-revolutionary America as the new country was beginning to discover its identity. Penelope Corbitt and her two children are traveling from Philadelphia to Boston with her brother-in-law, where they will all enter...

Set in 1764 in colonial Pennsylvania, A Player's Exit by Terri Karsten follows newly widowed Penelope Corbitt, who has found a haven, along with her daughter Nabby and son Nathaniel, at a wayside tavern. Miles Tucker, the kind-hearted tavern owner, wants to marry her, but...