Books by Alice A Moerk

Two children escape the cruelty of England's King John and cross the Channel to look for their family. Their quest leads them into a maelstrom of forest bent on destroying the Languedoc, the society and culture of southern France. They find themselves pitted against the armies of France and the Church of Rome and aligned with the peaceful and heretical Cathars. As an era ends, hope, joy, grief and destruction devastate yet bind this family of artisans and musicians. Book Two of the Pastimes series follows the family of Ain of Poetiers through the 13th century. Book One, Ain's Song, won a Florida NLAPW award and a Eudora Welty award for historical fiction. Alice Moerk blends depth of historical knowledge about the Middle Ages with strong narrative skill in this story of French beliefs and battles in a turbulent epoch. - Dr. Elizabeth Waterston, London, Ontario I love this story (Ain's Song). Alice Moerk has captured the mood and tone of the period with credible accuracy and rousing humour. - Dannie Russell Uganda More titles by Alice A. Moerk: The Bag Ladye's Tale, New Found Souls Book Five, Ains Song, Frozen Music, New Found Souls Book Three: The Piper From TPS'L, Silent Signals and The Waters of Lethe.

New Found Souls are novels of survival and renewal. They mark turning points in the lives of individuals forced to come to grips with unseemly realities, who must redefine themselves. No one understands the Silent Signals Ross Bellman is sending. His sister, Amanda, responds, but too late. She is suddenly thrust from the focus of her hectic life in New York City into the abuse and theatrics of small college academia and the politics and insularity of rural Appalachia. Amanda Bellman copes with tragedy every day as director of a shelter for battered wives and their families. She missed her brother, Ross' phone call minutes before his suicide. Heartsick, she flies from New York to the small West Virginia college town to contend with the forces that ultimately led to the young boy's despair. Silent Signals, part 2 of the quintet New Found Souls, deals with Amanda's own survival as she fights the politics and biases of a small school, a small town, and the small people who inhabit it-including her own family.

Dr. Carolyn Robinson's life is in shambles. She's lost everyone and everything she's loved: Her family, her health, and her career. All that remains is her daughter, Anni. Together they leave their home to begin new lives. The terror of the past catches up with them, however, and they are caught up in a whirlwind that leads to a massacre and forces them to run and to assume new identities. This thriller is the first book of the quartet, NEW FOUND SOULS. It leads from the hills of Virginia to the mountains of New Mexico, from a Florida island to underground Atlanta and to the shores of Vera Cruz, Mexico.