Shawn McCarthy

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Shawn McCarthy

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I'm the author of ten books, with a heavy focus on historical fiction.

My historical novels include:
- "Local Honey" - Set in 1951, it's the story of a small town's "haves vs have-nots" in post-war America. It’s part love triangle, part class struggle, and part dreamy window into the lost New England of the 1950s. The backdrop includes seashore towns, rural farms, the gritty slums of Boston, and brief flashbacks to World War II battlefields.
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- "The Puzzle Box Chronicles" a six-book series set in Boston, Cape Cod and the American West in 1891. it focuses on an important time of transition in America, when electric lighting is spreading across the country like a wave.
Its locations range from private lux
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Average rating: 4.46 · 249 ratings · 49 reviews · 33 distinct worksSimilar authors
Local Honey

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The Lost, The Found and the...

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North of Angel Falls: The P...

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Those Who Wander: The Puzzl...

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Wires and Wings: The Puzzle...

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The Beckoning Spark: The Pu...

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Ire of The Storm

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Bored To Death

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Historical Info f...: What is your favorite time period? 69 258 Aug 11, 2022 01:41AM  
“Behind her, cotton sheets lay rumpled atop an unmade bed—the remains of an empty white canvas upon which she had intended to paint the landscape of home. And love. And family.
But no such masterpiece exists”
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“You left your soul out of its box
Accessible to the rain”
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“Those bright lilies don’t care where they grow,” the old man said. “They seem to especially like soggy ditches. A flower like that can draw beauty out of any old, rotten place. A gutter flower makes its gutter a better place just by being there.”
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“There is enough steam still in the pipes to feed its piston, but it has no real power. The wheel is nothing more than a spinning flower decorating a grave.”
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“Sometimes you don’t know until a ship hits trouble just how good it is.”
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