DAVID LEWIS
THERE WAS A TIME (2026)
A patrolling hawk wheels high in the immense Montana sky, searching for a mouse scurrying across the prairie below. A low, unencumbered wind trawls cloud shadows over the buffalo grass, and with a sigh rattles the riverbank cottonwoods. There were once cavalry columns riding across the open landscape, steamboats on the river, and Cheyenne and Lakota encampments near the water. The ever-present wind carried the sounds of horse harness, and the drums and cries of ceremonies, but not any more. Their echoes have long since faded away, and the people are gone too. Only the hawk and the mouse remain.
James Bond meets Maisie Dobbs in this riveting new historical caper series featuring a gifted young socialist-turned-counterespionage agent on a World War II mission orchestrated by Winston Churchill himself.
REVIEWS
An exciting, page-turning adventure told in a cinematic style, with an intriguing chase across England, and a pulse-pounding, action-filled climax.
Kevin O-Brien, New York Times Best-selling author
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Brilliantly researched and a thrilling tale of spies and dark secrets. It's a captivating caper.
Alan Hlad, International best-selling author
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I especially liked Caitrin being smart, resourceful and kind. I raised three daughters that way -- and then there is her wit!
W. David Doiron, Reader, Tempe AZ.
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The book is an oddity for a World War II novel. It is funny and filled with witty dialogue, mostly coming from Caitrin. When asked what they are carrying in the hay wagon, she answers the Crown Jewels, correctly not expecting to be believed.
Kirkus Reviews
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PUBLICATION: JUNE 2025
A BEACON IN THE NIGHT
As the Blitz fades, a new threat emerges. The Luftwaffe has developed a homing beacon that lets their bombers pinpoint a particular target. Angry at Britain's defiance, Hitler intends to obliterate their ancient monuments: its churches, cathedrals and castles.
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Caitrin and Lord Hector fight against time to track down the beacons and save Britain's history.
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"The action moves at a swift pace, the dialogue is sharp, and the well-placed historical details evoke the harrowing realities of English life during WWII. With a fierce heroine and nail-biting plot, this will delight fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Susan Elia MacNeal."
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PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY
ESCAPE FROM PARIS Publication Date: 2026!
ESCAPE FROM PARIS
Synopsis to come.
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NEW FOR 2025!
A BEACON IN THE NIGHT will be published in June.
WINSTON’S WORRY, the sixth in the Caitrin Colline/Secret Churchill Files series has been delivered to my agent.
ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE is the seventh one, and is currently in the research stage. It will be Caitrin’s toughest assignment, when she enters Hitler’s bunker in the last few days of the war on a rescue mission. Much more to come.
I WANT TO is a different story-telling for me. It is a contemporary love story, with the usual daft humour and eccentric characters, about a young man who, on foot, is pulling a sailboat across country. Along the way he meets a young woman who wants to make it big in Hollywood. Their ambitions collide and something has to give.
TO FLY is based on the de Havilland aircraft company. The Wright Brothers prove man can fly and young GEOFFREY de HAVILLAND intends to emulate them. A humbling negotiation with his wealthy grandfather gets him just enough money to build an aeroplane — even though he has never actually seen one. LOUISE, his wife, is an intelligent woman in an age when women are either servants or a mute decoration for their husband. She joins Millicent Fawcett’s suffragist movement and her dedication to women’s emancipation puts great strain on their marriage, but she will not give up.
TO FLY is a three volume series.
KATS
HANK was bitten by a spider, and then he ate it. There's a story in there somewhere -- next to the spider.
If you want to write, keep cats. Aldous Huxley
There are no ordinary cats.
Colette
ROCKAT traveled everywhere with me, but most of all he loved living on a farm in Portugal.
BACKGROUND
WALES
PORTUGAL
HOLLYWOOD
