Books
Explore the author’s genre-crossing work below. Janet’s books all reveal challenges facing the characters along with the universal themes inherent in human struggle, passion, triumph, and loss.
A Reasonable Lady
A salacious Regency romance
Who is this lovely girl Sir Edmond Linnington has rescued from entering a brothel? When he hides her past and his feelings, can they ever admit their love?
From the busy streets of London to the calm and beauty of the Oxford and Cornish countryside, Linnington and Olivia’s one night of passion changes the course of their lives – but will it be permanent?
Virgin Hall
Women coming of age in the 1950s
Sheila O’Connor, Brooklyn born and convent educated, leaves the East Coast for her freshman year at college at Southern Methodist University. Her three suite mates are familiar with this new alien world, but none of them is prepared for the challenges Shelia will face. Her secrets will affect all of them before the year is out and continue to echo as the women meet for a 30th reunion.
A Sky for Arcadia
Recovery from Addiction
Set in the early eighties, this is the story of Mary Ann, who awakens from the nightmare of an attempted suicide to what she considers the nightmare of daily life and recovery from addiction. As the reader joins her journey, both demons and life-preservers make their appearance. Mary Ann’s path through the year begins and ends with her struggle to face life’s challenges and keep growing in spite of her deep wounds and sometimes tortured emotions. It is at once a novel of pain, perseverance, and strength—simultaneously compassionate and brutally honest. No matter what the reader’s background, Mary Ann’s story will resonate on many levels and linger long after the final page is turned.
Breaking the Surface
Poems: 2007-2009
Breaking the Surface, a chapbook of poems written about the lake house in Northern Wisconsin where the poet spent summers in her youth and that she still shares with her family. They are poems of memory and place as well as encompassing the arc of a life lived.
Wakonta Calendar
Short Stories from Up North
This cycle of short stories, begins in June, where Ellen Stanley is spending time at the lake with her son, trying to come to terms with tragedy, and follows with incidents in the lives of working people, professionals and outcasts in a small Wisconsin town. The final story is set in May with the resolution of Ellen’s story.
CityScapes
Short Stories Inspired by Urban Living
A collection of short stories set in different urban landscapes. The stories deal with everything from day-to-day challenges to life-changing situations. Most of the stories have a twist in the plot.