Kate Alanna

Malone Trilogy

by Maureen Peters

This novel, complete within itself, is part of a trilogy about the Malones. To escape the famine in Ireland, the Malone sisters - Kate and Tansy - take a ship to Liverpool. However, they find that the city stinks of corruption and violence, and is menaced by cholera. In the twisting alleys and crowded docks, Tansy fights for survival and a better life for her sister and herself. In this mid-Victorian world she meets many strange characters, who help or hinder her struggles. Then events take a sudden and surprising turn, and the future of the Malones blossoms.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published October 2, 1975

About the author

Maureen Peters was born in Caernarvon, Wales, on March 3, 1935, and was married and divorced twice; she has two sons and two daughters. In addition to biographical fiction, historical romances, and mystery novels written under her own name, other noms de plume include Veronica Black, Catherine Darby, Levanah Lloyd, Belinda Grey, Elizabeth Law, Judith Rothman, and Sharon Whitby.

She was educated at grammar school and attended the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and a diploma of Education. For some time she taught disabled children, and then took up writing. She has produced many books and contributed short stories to many magazines. Peters is also known as a Bronte scholar.

Her novels, which easily number over one hundred, have often focused on royalty, mostly the War of the Roses and Tudor period, and cover the lives of Elizabeth I of England, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, as well as of other famous and less famous historical figures such as Edward II of England, the many Queen consorts of various Kings of England. Apart from biographical fiction on royalty (written under her own name), she also wrote Gothic romances, family sagas, Mills & Boon series titles, and contemporary mysteries.