What happens When Two Women Die? They become legends. Patricia Goodwin has written an exciting new thriller, When Two Women Die: An Historical Novella of Marblehead, Telling of Two Murders Which Happened There, 301 Years Apart. In 1690, a mysterious Englishwoman was killed in the colonial fishing village of Marblehead, Massachusetts by pirates who came ashore one night and committed a brutal murder while a peaceful town slept - or tried to sleep. The woman's cries could be heard all over town as she begged for her life. All the able-bodied men in Marblehead were over 500 miles away fishing at...

"Goodwin's prose is sharp and descriptive, invoking vivid word pictures...a strong undercurrent of tension and horror." -Kirkus Reviews Holy Days is about the sexual, psychological seduction of Gloria Wisher. Spanning 20 years, Gloria's story begins with her life as an innocent 3-year-old in a sensual and loving extended family of Italian-American grandparents in East Boston. When she is 8 years old, her father and mother move away from this Italian-American enclave to Revere, where her life degenerates into a twisted mix of perverse pleasures and traditional values. Gloria is never safe,...

What if the truth is more dangerous than the dream? When Ned Low dreamed of going to sea, he couldn't have imagined what horrors awaited him. When his mother, Rosie Low, visited the old seer, Ed Dimond, she never dreamed she would be arrested for witchcraft. Dreamwater, the sequel to When Two Women Die, is the terrifying journey of 11-year-old pirate Ned Low in 1692, as he makes his way from the Jamaicas back to Marblehead, each day facing new terrors of his own, to rescue his mother and the girl he loves from the witch hysteria that has gripped his home. In 1995 Marblehead, Peter Treadwell...