Böcker av Shawn P. McCarthy

In the autumn of 1891, four lives are on an intersecting course, and the results could be deadly.After being swept away by a flood, Amanda Grant tries to find shelter in a strange wilderness. She is offered refuge in a place called Angel Falls. But the dream-like landscape is not what it seems.Union organizer Jeb Thomas is floundering. He is on a cross-country quest to find Amanda, who broke off their relationship. But when he can't find her, he tries instead to locate the valuable puzzle box she left behind in Boston.Former Confederate soldier Devlin Richards knows Amanda's puzzle box was originally owned by a scientist named Victor Marius. He believes Victor hid valuable items inside the box. Devlin is willing to kill to obtain it. His uneasy alliance with Jeb will only survive long enough for the two of them to track down the mysterious container.Meanwhile, Victor, a brilliant but troubled sci.entist, has no idea the wooden box he originally lost at sea has been found. Victor has reluctantly abandoned his scientific research. Instead, he works as an electric lineman and part-time police officer. But those are choices that may lead him toward tragedy.The Beckoning Spark is the final volume of the sprawling six-volume Puzzle Box Chronicles, set in a time when new technologies and rapid social change are helping alter the very nature of the American Landscape.----------Shawn P. McCarthy is a Massachusetts-based researcher and author. He usually can be found exploring a variety of waterways, using a variety of boats

After a tragedy at sea in the summer of 1891, a once-bold scientist lingers on - only a fragment of his former self. Rather than return to his demanding work, he spends his time stringing wires and bringing electricity to the masses of Boston. What he doesn't know is that his life and words have provided great inspiration to a woman he's never met. Amanda Grant, who is on the run from an unfair attempted murder charge, finds herself strangely drawn to union organizer Jeb Thomas, but his presence only turns her life upside down. First, a strange box that she salvaged from the sea is stolen from her, then she is kicked out of the house where she found temporary sanctuary.With few other options she boards a train heading for Chicago and beyond. She's never left New England before, but she knows this escape will either bring her closer to Jeb, or she will escape yet again, maybe to find a distant home in the West.Those Who Wander takes a tour through private luxury train cars and seedy back alleys. Even the sparks created by a "War of the Currents" can't fully illuminate their path

Amanda Malcom, on the run from her estranged husband and the Boston police, has stood by her friend and lover Jeb Thomas through some challenging times. But their arrangement grows increasingly strained as they head west. When they reach the rugged copper mines of Montana, she comes face to face with prejudice, violence and decadence. It quickly sinks in that she may have made a terrible choice.In Boston, aging Confederate soldier Devlin Richards has fallen into a pattern of petty crime and subtle revenge against the people he blames for the downfall of his once great family. But when he takes on a beautiful new partner, the success of his operation starts to grow.Meanwhile, a reclusive scientist who survived deadly shipwreck is growing strong again and starting to rejoin the world. But his new life of drugs, obsessive work and occasional brawling threatens to undue his progress.This fourth book of the sprawling Puzzle Box Chronicles is a cross-country journey of fear and hope set in the early 1890s. Electrical and telephone wires are bringing young America closer together. But other forces seem determined to pull things apart, leaving the world empty and desolate.

Book one of the sprawling Puzzle Box Chronicles.Victor Marius, an inspired scientist and budding entrepreneur, is lost in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod in the summer of 1891. But before he disappears beneath the waves he manages to release a strange box that he hopes will protect his legacy. Amanda Malcom, a young woman enduring a troubled marriage, is about to make a discovery that will lead her on a dangerous odyssey - one that takes her across the country, and into the heart of a rapidly changing America. Along the way, she meets Plains Indians, ex-slaves, riverboat charlatans, and secretive workers who champion the U.S. labor movement. At a time when electric lighting is spreading across the country like a wave, she also meets inspired engineers and Montana miners who dig deep to feed the country's insatiable demand for copper. Amanda has survived many things in her short life, but it's not clear if she will be able to survive the first year of the last decade of the 19th century.