Maureen Thorpe – författare

A Magical Mystery in Windsor Castle Meg Whistowe, a midwife, witch, and amateur sleuth, lives in a medieval Yorkshire village. Weary of her workload, she takes on an assistant, Mattie, a sassy, clever 15-year-old. A body with an unusual ring on its finger is discovered in the forest by a curious pig. Unable to resist a mystery, the two, plus Meg's telepathic cat, Bea, follow the ring and travel back in time to Windsor Castle in 1421, unaware that the body was deliberately placed there to lure them.  At Windsor Castle, Queen Catherine de Valois, the French wife of King Henry V, is about to give birth, anxiously awaiting her midwife. Meg arrives just in time, not realising she is part of a diabolical plot.  If the queen bears a son, the new prince will become heir to both France and England. Someone in the castle with magical powers plans to prevent this, aided by a sorcerer who wishes Meg serious harm.  Mistress Meg and Mattie must use their skills to deliver the royal baby, discover the plotters, find their way around Windsor Castle, including the dungeons.

The local Farmers' and Artisans' summer market held weekly in the small mountain town of Invermere in the East Kootenays of British Columbia offers a wide variety of characters and products to its many visitors. Visitors arrive to enjoy a morning of meeting and greeting, exploring new tastes, buying fresh veggies and flowers, and dawdling among displays of jewellery, garden ornaments, books and canned goods. Yet underneath the friendly and pleasant exterior lurks dark passions fully capable of bringing the spectre of death to an unsuspecting community. How can a red sun bring danger to innocent people? More to the point, are people who they appear to be or does everyone wear a mask?

A Spellbinding Journey through Time and Cultures . . . Annie Thornton, an English midwife and apprentice witch, leads a pleasant yet uneventful life in her Yorkshire village, which she shares with her telepathic cat, Rosamund. All changes when she is summoned by her ancestral, witchy Aunt Meg living in the fifteenth century. Their challenge is to find seven-year-old twins stolen from their home in a tenth-century Viking village.Aunt Meg vows to return the twins to their grieving parents. Their search begins in Viking Yorvik (York) and ends in magnificent Constantinople. They are accompanied by Ivar, the twins' father and a born troublemaker. Finne, a Viking trader and leader of a convoy of longships, offers them passage to the fabled city, but dangers abound. Queen Gunnhild, a woman also skilled in magic, is determined to end their mission for financial gain. Will Annie find her inner power and conquer both the journey and Gunnhild or will the dark queen succeed?

A spellbinding journey through time and cultures  Annie Thornton, an English midwife and apprentice witch, her telepathic cat, Rosamund, and her witchy Aunt Meg, travel to 17th-century London to see William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.Overcrowded London is bursting at the seams with the privileged, the poor and the rogues. A bag of silver brought by the travellers to purchase food and lodging becomes a target sought by criminal gangs who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.In constant danger, Annie and Meg must devise clever plans with the help of Shakespeare and a touch of magic to bring justice to the London gangs.

A spell-binding journey through time and cultures Annie Thornton, an English midwife and apprentice witch, falls through time along with her telepathic cat, Rosamund, to Roman Britain in 296 A.D. Her ancestral Aunt Meg, also a midwife and witch, requires her help to rescue the ailing young wife of the Commander of the Roman Fort, Eboracum (now York). Both women are welcomed into the Commander's home but Meg disappears. Upon hearing that soldiers are taking her aunt north to Hadrian's Wall with orders to kill, Annie, now a fugitive, calls on friends from the past to rescue Meg and they begin their journey to Hadrian's Wall.Meg, skilled in the magical arts, has to use them to survive on her forced long journey north accompanied by Roman soldiers.Veda, a local Celt, concerned for Annie and Meg, follows Annie, relying on her Celtic farming family for support.As each woman separately travels north on their hazardous journey, the relationship between the Celtic tribes and their Roman conquerors is revealed. Meanwhile, in Eboracum, disaster awaits their return.