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Haven Trilogy
Moonlight On Water
The utopian community of River's Haven, Indiana, might have its flaws, including some unique views on marriage, but Rachel Browning enjoys her responsibilities as the community's treasurer-accountant and the love she has for Katherine "Kitty Cat" Mulligan, the young orphan who shares Rachel's home. When Kitty Cat turns up missing one afternoon, Rachel finds the young girl playing onboard the Ohio Star, a steamboat that had recently run aground near River's Haven. The steamboat's new owners, Horace Appleby and Wyatt Colton, don't seem to mind visits from Kitty Cat and Rachel while their boat is being repaired, but others in the community don't like Rachel consorting with outsiders, and their displeasure soon becomes evident to both Rachel and Wyatt. If Rachel accepts Wyatt's offer of love, she risks losing the family she has in River's Haven.
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 2002
About the author
Jo Ann Ferguson
82 books33 followersPlease note, this author also writes under the name J.A. Ferguson, Jocelyn Kelley and Rebecca North.
"One of my favorite memories is lying on the grass on a knoll on a late summer day and telling my sister stories I was making up," says Jo Ann Ferguson, who also writes as J.A. Ferguson, Joanna Hampton, Jo Ann Brown, and Rebecca North."There's something magical about being able to spend time with people you enjoy in your imagination. As a writer, I get to go with my characters to their time and place so I can share their adventures and falling in love for the first time…all over again."
She has had a few adventures of her own, including a stint as an Army quartermaster officer where she was the first and only woman in her unit. She still enjoys traveling to the locations of her books and learning all about those places and people. Researching her novels is part of the fun. Whether it's ghosts, calling cards, how to fire an antique gun, or traveling to a world that exists only in her imagination, she pays a great deal of attention to the details that delight her reader. She's even learned a bit of Russian, Arabic, Welsh, and a lot of Regency slang.
Her work has been honored with award nominations from Pearl, ROMY, Romantic Times, Rom/Con, and Affaire de Coeur magazine. Amazon Books chose her novels to showcase. And Romance Writers of America bestowed the two ARTemis Awards for Jo Ann's Zebra Regencies: The Counterfeit Count and A Christmas Bride.
Nonfiction also appeals to her, because it's where she got her start, seeing her first byline when she was twelve years old. She contributed to an encyclopedia of the English Regency period published by Garland Press. For all three editions of the New England Chapter's Now That You've Sold Your Book…What Next?, she has served as co-editor.
Believing in giving back, Jo Ann has served Romance Writers of America on both the local and national levels. She has served on the national board as president as well as a director and at term as vice president. For her volunteer work, she was given RWA's highest honor, the Emma Merritt National Service Award. She is also a creative writing instructor. She was awarded a Massachusetts Art Grant to teach creative writing and then established several creative writing courses at Brown University. Many of her students have gone on to publishing careers of their own.
She lives in Massachusetts, where her favorite hero—her husband, Bill—and their children and two cats. She's not sure which is the most spoiled.
"One of my favorite memories is lying on the grass on a knoll on a late summer day and telling my sister stories I was making up," says Jo Ann Ferguson, who also writes as J.A. Ferguson, Joanna Hampton, Jo Ann Brown, and Rebecca North."There's something magical about being able to spend time with people you enjoy in your imagination. As a writer, I get to go with my characters to their time and place so I can share their adventures and falling in love for the first time…all over again."
She has had a few adventures of her own, including a stint as an Army quartermaster officer where she was the first and only woman in her unit. She still enjoys traveling to the locations of her books and learning all about those places and people. Researching her novels is part of the fun. Whether it's ghosts, calling cards, how to fire an antique gun, or traveling to a world that exists only in her imagination, she pays a great deal of attention to the details that delight her reader. She's even learned a bit of Russian, Arabic, Welsh, and a lot of Regency slang.
Her work has been honored with award nominations from Pearl, ROMY, Romantic Times, Rom/Con, and Affaire de Coeur magazine. Amazon Books chose her novels to showcase. And Romance Writers of America bestowed the two ARTemis Awards for Jo Ann's Zebra Regencies: The Counterfeit Count and A Christmas Bride.
Nonfiction also appeals to her, because it's where she got her start, seeing her first byline when she was twelve years old. She contributed to an encyclopedia of the English Regency period published by Garland Press. For all three editions of the New England Chapter's Now That You've Sold Your Book…What Next?, she has served as co-editor.
Believing in giving back, Jo Ann has served Romance Writers of America on both the local and national levels. She has served on the national board as president as well as a director and at term as vice president. For her volunteer work, she was given RWA's highest honor, the Emma Merritt National Service Award. She is also a creative writing instructor. She was awarded a Massachusetts Art Grant to teach creative writing and then established several creative writing courses at Brown University. Many of her students have gone on to publishing careers of their own.
She lives in Massachusetts, where her favorite hero—her husband, Bill—and their children and two cats. She's not sure which is the most spoiled.
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April 21, 2019
Uma história com uma trama de fundo muito diferente de tudo que já li, o que tornou a história bastante interessante. Gostei bastante do mocinho e da mocinha, e dos personagens secundários que aparece na história, apesar dos vilões darem vontade de esganar. Impossível não se encantar com a Kitty, essa menininha deu um charme a mais a história. Enfim, depois desse livro, procurarei vários outros da autora :)
August 31, 2018
A Great Book
I enjoyed reading this book. I liked the setting and especially the riverboat. I have read other books about the orphan train but they did not have this much love given to them as K.C. received.
I enjoyed reading this book. I liked the setting and especially the riverboat. I have read other books about the orphan train but they did not have this much love given to them as K.C. received.
June 17, 2008
Rachel Browning thinks bliss has arrived when she settles down at River’s Haven, Indiana. This idyllic community gives her a sense of belonging and order, but when she adopts a little orphan girl, she longs for more. Tempted to explore what else life has to offer when she meets steamboat captain Wyatt Colton, Rachel treads a path with only dangerous choices in her future. Rules are strict in her community, and those who break them risk retribution.
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January 22, 2012Quello che mi ha colpito non è tanto la storia tra i protagonisti, ma il fatto che la protagonista vivesse in una cittadina degli Stati Uniti dove era deciso tutto dalla comunità più che dai singoli individui... non ho capito però se si trattava di una comunità religiosa oppure no qualcuno ci ha raccapezzato qualcosa in più di me su questo aspetto del libro?!
November 12, 2017
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