Prairie Hamlet: River's Edge, is the second book in the five book Prairie Hamlet saga, continuing the story begun in Molly's Place where we met Molly Hartnett and the many faces that fill her rooming house. Set in the fictional community of Canalport, near Chicago's downtown, The Prairie Hamlet series is a character driven and historically accurate storyline of Irish migrs who meet as strangers and become extended family as they confront the obstacles of the period. Prairie Hamlet: River's Edge takes us deeper into the lives of the characters we met in Molly's Place. While demonstrating the meaning of friendship, trust and respect the 'family' created in the first book of the series continues to struggle with and celebrate life in 1868 Chicago.

Prairie Hamlet: River's Edge, is the second book in the five book Prairie Hamlet saga, continuing the story begun in Molly's Place where we met Molly Hartnett and the many faces that fill her rooming house. Set in the fictional community of Canalport, near Chicago's downtown, The Prairie Hamlet series is a character driven and historically accurate storyline of Irish migrs who meet as strangers and become extended family as they confront the obstacles of the period. Prairie Hamlet: River's Edge takes us deeper into the lives of the characters we met in Molly's Place. While demonstrating the meaning of friendship, trust and respect the 'family' created in the first book of the series continues to struggle with and celebrate life in 1868 Chicago.

Molly's Place is the first book in the Prairie Hamlet Series. This is the story of a the tenants in a rooming house owned by Molly Hartnett. They begin as strangers lodging under a common roof and through the challenges and obstacles that affect their members; they evolve into an extended family. The story takes place in the fictitious neighborhood of Canalport, a small township adjacent to Chicago, within the Northwest Territories, from the fall of 1860 through New Year's Eve, 1865. Although the book is a historical romance novel, the characters drive the story, not the historical period in which they live. The book is regional in its presentation, it's similar to the regionality of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Anne of Green Gables, Brighton Beach Memoirs, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Ice Palace (Alaska), Giant (Texas).