Books by Ann Nolder Heinz

In the fall of 1873, Harriet Mitchell’s safe world as a third-year student at Vassar College explodes when she receives news that someone has broken into her family’s Brooklyn home and murdered her beloved parents. Overwhelmed by grief and the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings, she looks to the police to identify and apprehend the perpetrator. Yet to her astonishment, they are either unable or unwilling to do so despite several promising leads. Are they being manipulated by friends of New York City’s corrupt politicians? Or does the truth lie somewhere in her parents’ past during the dark days of slavery? Determined to find out, she teams up with a New York Times reporter and follows a serpentine trail from Canada to post-civil-war Charleston, South Carolina. Having cornered their quarry, the two must survive his treacherous maneuverings one last time to complete their mission and bring him to justice. At the same time, Harriet learns some valuable lessons in humility and kindness that will broaden her perspective in the journalistic profession she hopes to pursue.

When Dr. Gwen Pickering learns that her fiancé has been captured by Confederate troops and is being held in Richmond, Virginia’s notorious Libby Prison, the same protective instincts that prompted her to accept this damaged but brilliant artist’s marriage proposal demand that she do whatever she can to rescue him. Helped by the Union Army, she goes to Richmond with a dual mission—recruit one of its citizens as a spy for the North even as she arranges her fiancé’s escape. Her initial success is soon tempered by circumstances beyond her control, and she must utilize every skill she possesses to overcome the obstacles that threaten at every turn. At the same time, she must confront her own flawed nature and discover the essence of true, lasting love.

Gift or scourge? Maddie Blake is a PI with a difference: she is a clairvoyant who is able to see through time and space to experience events that have already happened. Refusing to be defined by those whose rational minds cannot accept her amazing abilities, she has used them instead to further her career as a detective who specializes in missing persons cases. The 1979 disappearance of a prominent Seattle businessman’s daughter is right down her alley. As her investigation proceeds, however, she discovers disturbing links to an international conspiracy that threatens the fragile Cold War détente between the United States and the Soviet Union. The deeper she probes, the greater the danger to herself and the girl she hopes to save. In a final life-threatening confrontation, she must face down the evil that has resulted from overzealous ambition and make some hard decisions about her own future should she survive.

Two people, twins by birth, are destined for the medical profession in 1859 America, one motivated by expectation, the other by passion. Carl Fielding is acquiescing to his physician father’s bidding even though his heart and talents pull him toward the arts. Cora Fielding longs to attend medical school despite a cultural bias against people of her gender. Her fight for the freedom to fulfill her dream is in direct opposition to the destructive behavior in which Carl’s frustrated talent leads him. Although they seem to be on irreconcilable courses—Cora’s experiences in medical school lead her to join the abolitionist movement against slavery, Carl’s discontentment plunges him into acts that land him in the criminal court system—Cora is determined to use all of her resources to heal their natal bond and help her brother find the same inner light of fulfillment that she is forging in her own life.

Lizzie Hamilton’s life as a pampered belle in the antebellum South is over. Alone and destitute due to the disintegration of her family’s fortunes, she makes the mistake of trusting a handsome but unprincipled professional gambler whose silver-tongued promises lead only to disgrace and virtual servitude. Danger and misfortune stalk her as she travels from Charleston, South Carolina to the gambling dens of New Orleans, up the Mississippi River, and across the broad prairies to the gold fields of California. Will her experiences drive her to bitterness and despair? Or will they change her heart—and open it to the love and redemption she craves?

Julia Bigsby is the repressed daughter of a widowed parson in 1850's Troy, New York. Desperate to escape her dreary life, she agrees to marry Nathaniel Hamilton, who owns a cotton plantation in South Carolina. She soon finds herself a virtual prisoner in a life she increasingly abhors. The only bright spot is her growing affection for her slave maid Fanny. When Nathaniel’s lust for Fanny leads to family chaos, he prepares to sell her away. Agents of the Underground Railroad help Fanny plan her escape to freedom. Julia cannot bear to remain behind, and she decides to flee as well. Thus begins a harrowing journey that tests the ingenuity and resolve of both women.

Nora Hartmann is struggling to cope with life as a recent widow, a single parent, and a small business owner. The last thing she needs is the unwanted attentions of her neighbor Rudy. As Rudy’s interest deepens into obsession, those close to Nora, including her new lover, begin to suffer – and die. Her continued unequivocal rejection triggers Rudy’s final descent into madness. He sets a trap using Nora’s daughter as bait. Cornered, Nora must summon an arsenal of ingenuity, courage, and fierce resolve to fight for her own life and that of her child.

Dr. Abigail Potter has come home to take over her dying father’s medical practice. When her estranged sister Rona Lee unexpectedly reappears, Abigail is brought face to face with the cunning ruthlessness and dark secrets that drove her away twelve years before. The struggle between the sisters turns ugly. Then Abigail discovers Rona Lee’s butchered body and realizes she is the primary suspect. In a race against time, she must plunge into Rona Lee’s murky past and sift through the human debris she finds there in order to stop the killer before she herself becomes the final victim.

Best-selling author Leslie Anne Galloway leads the perfect life — until it inexplicably begins to fall apart. Her husband dies. Her pregnancy fails. Her career tanks. Unfortunate coincidence? Or is some unknown enemy working to engineer her downfall? All doubt disappears when an arsonist sets fire to her house and she narrowly escapes two brutal assaults. Since the police are unable to protect her, she must use her own intellect and determination to unmask and thwart an opponent who will not stop until she is brought to the very brink of destruction — and beyond.

Divorced civil engineer Hannah McPherson is making a new life for herself in a small Illinois town where she has been appointed as village engineer. She manages to stay aloof from local politics until a sinister cabal begins to meddle in the decision to bring a controversial entertainment complex to the village. As dissension mounts, murder and mayhem stalk the little town with Hannah at the center of it all. She must use her unique knowledge and skills to thwart a conspiracy that imperils not only her own life but everything and everyone she holds dear.

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