Karen Rees

Author Bio:

Karen Rees exchanged her life as an Oklahoma farmer's daughter for SE Asian 'big city' life when she and her second-generation missionary husband Benjamin began mission work in Hong Kong in 1975.

She is the mother of two, grandmother of three, an avid reader, quilter, writer, lover of history, and a continual learner.

The Laughing Place

Connecticut, 1868. To escape an unwanted marriage after her doctor father's death, Nathalie Rutledge accepts an invitation from her hitherto unknown great aunt to visit her at the ancestral home in Bristol, England. When Nathalie travels there on a ship captained by Andrew, her newly discovered distant…

This Tangled Skein, The Elizabethan Dilemma

March 1572. Having lost her family to the pestilence, Anne Marie duChant leaves France for England to escape an unwanted marriage and reunite with relatives. As she departs Rouen, Huguenot friends are eagerly awaiting the August wedding of Protestant King Henry of Navarre and Catholic Princess Marguerite,…

A Tale of Souls - The Church in Turmoil

THE BATTLE CONTINUES. The year is 1535. William Tyndale is arrested in Antwerp for producing an English Testament without Church permission. English merchant and Bible smuggler Owen Alton is desperate to save him from the stake. He reluctantly allows wife Jane to sail to London to seek the King's help…

The Ruby Ring - Battle for an English Bible

THE BATTLE BEGINS The year is 1524. William Tyndale makes the fateful decision to produce an English Testament without Church permission. He knows that a vernacular scripture will free the common people from spiritual domination by a corrupt and ignorant Church. If Tyndale is caught, he'll die at the…