New York: Ballantine, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The author's second historical novel, one which chronicles the relationship between the writer Robert Louis Stevenson and the independent-minded American divorcee, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. They meet in rural France in 1875, when Fanny, having run away from her philandering husband back in California, takes refuge there with her children. Their often turbulent, but always loving, relationship spanned two decades and many countries, in their continual quest for a place where Stevenson would find health. Afterword. 474 pp. ISBN: 978-0345516534.