Books by Marc Heberden

Eric Sumners, a rich businessman in the Pacific Northwest, has it all: smart, handsome, successful, and happily married to a beautiful woman of perfect artistic and social taste. One day, on a whim, he decides to give her a luxurious sailboat. But when someone as rich as Eric decides to do something, the side-effects on regular people's lives can be spectacular. Suddenly, down at the waterfront, the grandiose opportunity created by Sumners spawns ever-expanding waves of hope, but also conjures up deep currents of jealousy, greed and hidden desire. Suspense, with romantic and professional intrigue, aspirations and dreams, are soon engulfed as The Big Tide sweeps everything before it with the promises and delusions of unfettered ambition, passion, art and love.

1 July 1789, Paris - Two weeks before the Revolution: France is undergoing a political upheaval unlike anything it has known before. Louis XVI is using savage mercenary forces and food blockages, to bring the people to heel. The country is a powder keg, and Paris is the fuse. In the midst of the bloody chaos, shadowy people- including the sinister and brutal chief of the Paris police-discover that a young Parisian laundress, Michèle Duvallier, is in possession of the proof of a deadly, ancient secret that could shake France's monarchy to its core ... September 1654, Burgundy - 135 years before the Revolution: A good-natured young man, an orphan, is mysteriously imprisoned with grotesque instructions to conceal his identity in such as way as to ensure he is to be forgotten for all time ...