Kirsten McKenzie

The Ithaca Trilogy

1 - Ithaca Bound (May-2023)
2 - Ithaca Lost (Apr-2024)
3 - Ithaca Found (Apr-2025)

The Old Curiosity Shop

1 - Fifteen Postcards (Sep-2015)
2 - The Last Letter (Nov-2016)
3 - Telegram Home (Aug-2019)

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  The Chapel at the Edge of the World
  

  • Jul-2010
  • / Historical Romance
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  Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the ...

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  Fifteen Postcards
  

  • Sep-2015
  • / Historical
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  The Old Curiosity Shop - 1
  

  History shapes those who travel through itFollowing the unexplained disappearance of her parents, and in a last ditch attempt to save the antique store she has inherited from financial ruin, Sarah Lester takes on a deceased estate. Amongst the ...

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  The Last Letter
  

  • Nov-2016
  • / Historical
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  The Old Curiosity Shop - 2
  

  The Last Letter - the thrilling sequel to Fifteen PostcardsTime changes everything, even history...Disappearing from her shop amid a spray of bullets, antiques dealer Sarah Lester leaves no body, only questions.

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  Painted
  

  • Jul-2017
  • / Horror
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  If art can capture a soul, what happens when one of those souls escapes?

  When art appraiser Anita Cassatt is sent to catalogue the extensive collection of reclusive artist Leo Kubin, it isn't only the chilly atmosphere of the secluded house ...

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  Telegram Home
  

  • Aug-2019
  • / Science Fiction
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  The Old Curiosity Shop - 3
  

  History will change

  Sarah Lester's mother is missing and the Indian uprising holds her father captive. The police want to question her, and even the church is demanding its pound of flesh. Her return to The Old Curiosity Shop rais...

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  Doctor Perry
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Under the Hippocratic Oath, a doctor swears to remember that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.Doctor Perry assures his elderly patients at the Rose Haven Retirement Home that he can offer warm...

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  The Forger and the Thief
  

  • Jul-2020
  • / General Fiction
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  FIVE STRANGERS IN FLORENCE, EACH WITH A DANGEROUS SECRET. AND AN APOCALYPTIC FLOOD THREATENING TO REVEAL EVERYTHING.A wife on the run, a student searching for stolen art, a cleaner who has lined more than his pockets, a&...

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  Ithaca Bound
  

  • May-2023
  • / Science Fiction
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  The Ithaca Trilogy - 1
  

  Roman ruins. A reluctant time traveler. And an army under threat.Can one woman slip back through time to avert a slaughter and save the man she loves?When ancient ruins are discovered on a Northumberland farm, just south of Hadrian's Wall, emotions b...

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  Ithaca Lost
  

  • Apr-2024
  • / Science Fiction
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  The Ithaca Trilogy - 2
  

  Can one woman stop the power of Rome breaking through the thin veneer of time?With treasure hunters and archaeologists rushing to claim the ancient secrets buried beneath her land, Lillian's plans for Ithaca Farm have been thwarted at every turn.Loom...

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  The Vampires of York Tower
  

  • Apr-2025
  • / Horror
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  They're not just tenants, they're prey...High above Manhattan's gilded streets, York Tower rises as the ultimate address for New York's wealthy elite. But with its elderly residents dying at an alarming rate, cracks appear in the building's glossy fa...

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  Ithaca Found
  

  • Apr-2025
  • / Science Fiction
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  The Ithaca Trilogy - 3
  

  The past and present collide in a desperate attempt to rewrite history...Hexham's mayor, Jane Badrick weaves a web of lies to ascend to the highest echelons of power in the heart of ancient Rome. As she tightens her grip on destiny, Lillian and Apple...

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