May Whitty – MRQE

Devotion

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.

Suspicion

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne’er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance.

Crash Dive

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

Conquest

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte’s mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.

The Return of October

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

The Sign of the Ram

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.

If Winter Comes

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

It’s 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has married Mabel “on the rebound”, after his real love Nona marries someone else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with her husband Tony. Mabel is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark’s part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.

This Time for Keeps

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.

Green Dolphin Street

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie’s daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite’s sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter’s hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

My Name Is Julia Ross

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.