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Melanie Dobson

    Melanie uses fiction as a delightful avenue to explore forgotten towns and old houses, journey to intriguing locales, and immerse herself in the wisdom of dusty books and journals. She crafts both contemporary and historical narratives, weaving in threads of romance and suspense to captivate her readers. Her work often delves into themes of mystery and connection, with a style that fluidly bridges past and present. Melanie employs her extensive research habits to bring historical settings to life, immersing readers in worlds rich with emotion and intrigue.

    Melanie Dobson
    Where the Trail Ends (American Tapestry)
    The Winter Rose
    Catching the Wind
    Hidden Among the Stars
    Chateau of Secrets
    Memories of Glass
    • 2022

      The Winter Rose

      • 500 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      "In this gripping WWII time-slip novel, Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More than fifty years after they disappear, Addie Hoult arrives at Tonquin Lake, hoping to find the Tonquin family. For Addie, the mystery is a matter of life and death for her beloved mentor Charlie, who is battling a genetic disease. Though Charlie refuses to discuss his ties to the elusive Tonquins, finding them is the only way to save his life and mend the wounds from his broken past"-- Provided by publisher

      The Winter Rose
    • 2021

      A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and--decades later--a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry an SS officer and adopt a young girl, Hanna begins to see behind the Nazi facade. A prayer labyrinth becomes a storehouse for Hanna's secrets, but as she comes to love Lilly as her own daughter, she fears that what she's hiding--and what she begins to uncover--could put them both in mortal danger. Eighty years later, Ember Ellis is a Holocaust researcher intent on confronting hatred toward the Jewish people and other minorities. She reconnects with a former teacher on Martha's Vineyard after she learns that Mrs. Kiehl's mother once worked with the Nazi Ahnenerbe. And yet, Mrs. Kiehl describes her mother as "a friend to the Jewish people." Wondering how both could be true, Ember helps Mrs. Kiehl regain her fractured childhood memories of World War II while at the same time confronting the heartache of her own secret past--and the person who wants to silence Ember forever.

      The Curator's Daughter
    • 2020

      Memories of Glass

      • 500 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      4.7(12)Add rating

      1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friends Josie van Rees and Eliese Linden partner with a few daring citizens to rescue Eliese's son and hundreds of other Jewish children who await deportation in a converted theater in Amsterdam. But amid their resistance work, Josie and Eliese's dangerous secrets could derail their friendship and their entire mission. When the enemy finds these women, only one will escape.

      Memories of Glass
    • 2019

      Hidden Among the Stars

      • 574 pages
      • 21 hours of reading
      4.4(14)Add rating

      "MELANIE DOBSON is the award-winning author of nearly twenty historical romance, suspense, and time-slip novels, including Catching the Wind, Chateau of Secrets, and Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor. Three of her novels have won Carol Awards; Love Finds You in Liberty, Indiana won Best Novel of Indiana in 2010; and The Black Cloister won the Foreword magazine Religious Fiction Book of the Year. Melanie is the former corporate publicity manager at Focus on the Family and owner of the publicity firm Dobson Media Group. When she isn't writing, Melanie enjoys teaching both writing and public relations classes at George Fox University. Melanie and her husband, Jon, have two daughters. After mov- ing numerous times with work, the Dobson family has settled near Portland, Oregon, and they love to hike and camp in the moun- tains of the Pacific Northwest and along the Pacific Coast. Melanie also enjoys exploring ghost towns and abandoned homes, helping care for kids in her community, and reading stories with her girls. Visit Melanie online at www.melaniedobson.com."--

      Hidden Among the Stars
    • 2017

      When Daniel Knight was thirteen, he and ten-year-old Brigitte Berthold escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival. For more than seventy years he has vowed to find Brigitte. Now a wealthy old man, his final hope in finding Brigitte rests with Quenby Vaughn, an American journalist working in London. Quenby is wary at the idea of teaming up with Daniel's lawyer, Lucas Hough, but the lure of Brigitte's story is too much to resist. They follow a trail of deception, sacrifice, and healing that could change all of their futures.

      Catching the Wind
    • 2014

      Chateau of Secrets

      • 463 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      4.4(17)Add rating

      "A young noblewoman hides French resistance fighters in tunnels beneath her home while Germans occupy her house. Seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family's abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past"--

      Chateau of Secrets
    • 2012