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Bernadette McCoy s death is blamed on seven cats, but Police Chief Mad Dog Connolly believes an individual killed her. Sean Kelley attends the Cirque de Dlices and watches Angelique Aumont perform. He wants the beautiful Parisian rope walker for his traveling circus, and his wife, but she departs for America to live with her Auntie Bernadette. Hired by P. T. Barnum, Sean promotes singer Jenny Lind Barnum s Swedish Nightingale and assembles his circus. Angelique discovers Sean has traveled west and becomes Jenny s lady s maid, determined to find him. Sean s father, Timothy, joins the California Gold Rush. Rather than pan for gold, he learns how to mine the miners. Woven together, Sean, Angelique, and Timothy form a colorful story that enhances the tapestry of the American West.
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When Mary Ellen Dennis was very young, she developed a love for Alfred Noyes's poem "The Highwayman" and the Angélique series by Sergeanne Golon. Mary Ellen's fifth grade teacher was gobsmacked to hear her rambunctious student state that someday she'd write novels inspired by her favorite poem and favorite series. It has taken years to achieve her goal, but Mary Ellen says, "If you drop a dream, it breaks" (a saying coined by author Denise Dietz) . Mary Ellen lives on Vancouver Island with her chocolate Labrador retriever, Magic.
