Margaret Turner Taylor – författare

Based on actual events that occurred in 1938, Traveling Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death is a fictional spy thriller that will captivate the reader with its complex intrigue and deceptions. 

A group of mathematics teachers from the United States, posing as a study group, is in reality an information gathering operation run by MI6 and others who fear what the Nazis have in store for the world. 

In this riveting historical novel, you will meet Max Meyerhof, the rabbi’s son whose family is murdered by the Gestapo and Franz Haartman, an atomic scientist who narrowly escapes being sent to a concentration camp and disappears.  You will travel with Geneva Burkhart, the naïve country girl from Ohio, whose adventures reveal the evil already at work in Nazi Germany in the years before World War II.

The year is 1860. Twelve-year-old Louisa Taylor Gates lives on a farm near the small town of Burley, Maryland. Burley, as well as the rest of the United States, is deeply divided on the issue of slavery. Louisa learns about the quilt code from her family members, ardent abolitionists, who are conductors on the Underground Railroad and move slaves to freedom. Pursued by slave catchers who want to punish her and betrayed by a neighbor who spies on her, Louisa repeatedly places herself in mortal danger. She overcomes fire and freezing cold, as she enthusiastically joins the effort to smuggle slaves out of bondage. The country is on the brink of civil war, and in spite of her youth, Louisa risks her life, determined to do her part for the cause she believes in.

Turner Stuart lives to play baseball. He''s just a kid, trying to get on base and catch the ball when it comes his way. His life is turned upside down and inside out when he accidentally crosses paths with a diamond smuggler. This action-packed thriller takes the reader from the streets of Amsterdam to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Little League baseball fields of a small town on Maryland''s Eastern Shore. Turner''s courage and determination are tested as he tries to untangle multiple mysteries, burglaries, break-ins, and a kidnapping. Are you ready for some baseball ... and an exciting story?

The Basque town of Guernica was attacked from the air by Nazi Germany''s Condor Legion on April 26, 1937. I Will Fear No Evil begins on that infamous and terrible day. This World War II thriller, set in neutral Portugal, tells the story of courageous heroes who defy the evil that threatens to overwhelm their lives. Maximillian Boudreaux, who faced death in Traveling Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, takes his revenge on the Nazis in this compelling and complex historical novel. Romance and tragedy surround Americans Emerson and Peter Mullens as they make the Palacio Quinta da Bacalhoa their home. You will share the joy and the heartbreak of these turbulent times. You will be inspired, as patriots from Britain, the United States, and Portugal join forces to smuggle Jewish orphans out of Vichy France to safety at Bacalhoa and on to freedom in America. 

Austin loves to ride the train.  In his mind, he designs trains of the future.  Imagine the boy''s surprise when he discovers Alberto, a victim of human trafficking, hiding in the cabana behind his home in Merryvale Park.  Alberto has just escaped from a hidden compartment in a private railroad car.  While keeping Alberto''s existence a secret from his mother, Austin must feed and take care of Alberto.  It''s a big responsibility.  Austin and his friend Bertram are on the hunt for the owner of the private railroad car that transports human beings throughout the California countryside.  These "esclavos" will be forced to labor in the agricultural fields of the central valley.   You will meet Dabney Dinkerlaker, an evil billionaire who made his fortune stealing computer software.  Dabney enjoys buying and selling people.  This exciting adventure is both a traditional ride on the rails and a journey through what is possible via the electronic communications of today and tomorrow.  

Imagine digging a hole in the sand during your summer vacation at the beach and finding a trunk that''s been buried there since World War II. The past and the present converge when two cousins, who are playing in the sand near Bethany Beach, Delaware on a bright summer morning, uncover the decades-old trunk.  The discovery forever changes their lives. This thriller for the young-at-heart is rich with the history of German U-boat warfare off the Mid-Atlantic seacoast, the intrigue of stolen identities, and a collection of mysterious photographs from the past. Readers will love getting to know the woman who lived in Rose Cottage during the war years with her dogs Licorice and Vanilla. Who will solve the mystery of the unknown person who left a fortune for the ages buried in the dunes?  After so much time has passed, will it even be possible to uncover the truth of who abandoned the SECRET IN THE SAND?