Welcome… Sit back and stay for awhile.
I’ve loved to write since I was a child. In fact, I tell people I don’t remember the moment I wanted to write because I don’t ever remember not wanting to.
The Lantern Creek Series was born from a summer spent in Rogers City, Michigan. Located in beautiful Presque Isle County on the shores of Lake Huron, the town became a second home to me. The people I met there, as well as my experiences led to the seed that became Evening in the Yellow Wood.
I hadn’t planned to write a series, but the reaction to my debut novel was so overwhelming that I knew I had to continue Justine’s story. Snow in Summer and A Home for the Stars followed, and the reaction was just as positive. I feel blessed to be able to write for readers who truly appreciate the art of storytelling.
So, I invite you to sit back, relax, and become immersed in the world of the Lantern Creek Series- an alternating landscape of beauty and ruin, bound by characters you won’t soon forget.
New from Laura Kemp! A Song of Walking Rain
Twenty years have passed since Emily Ives escaped her husband and fled west on the California Trail with her infant son, James. Settled in a cottage by the sea with her new husband, Caleb, she begins a peaceful life far from the Black Hills and the devastating events that took place there.
Fearing for her son, she keeps his father’s identity a secret, certain he will never discover the truth…
Frank Merritt has spent his life rushing from one escapade to the next, but when he finds himself on the wrong side of the brothers who run Deadwood, he seeks help from the one person he trusts- his cousin Jimmy.
Eager to save him, Jimmy heads to Dakota Territory, unaware of the dark legacy he carries or the danger that awaits him in the ruthless gold rush town.
Because others have been awaiting his return, and will twist the secret of his identity to their advantage, even if it means hurting the people he loves.
Will Jimmy discover the truth before the deadly forces of his past rise against him? Or do secrets carry a reckoning even he can’t escape?
COMING JULY 21ST!
THE LANTERN CREEK SERIES
"Twin Peaks Meets Hart of Dixie.' - Book Riot
Abandoned by an eccentric father on the eve of her twelfth birthday, Justine Cook has lived with her fair share of unanswered questions. A decade later she heads north to Lantern Creek to discover her father's double life and meets the autistic brother she never knew--a young man who is mute but able to read her mind.
It's been a year since Justine Cook defeated an immortal enemy that hunted her family for generations. But the past won't let go so easily. When a woman named Amanda Bennett survives a fall from a cliff on Mackinac Island, it triggers a series of events that reawakens the past.
A mysterious Ojibwa petroglyph has carried Justine Cook back in time to the moment her unseen enemy is born. But something is wrong... Separated from those she loves, she finds herself in a strange world surrounded by people she has only known in dreams, and stalked by a man who now haunts her reality.
Married to a man she barely knows, nineteen-year-old Emily Ives has hopes of starting a new life in her small, Michigan town. Soon she is pregnant, and shocked to discover her husband’s charm masks a violent nature. When a fire claims the lives of her loved ones, she has one choice, escape on the Oregon Trail to the Black Hills, where her uncle and his wife are waiting.
