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About Jane Willan

Jane Willan is the author of the Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery series, cozy whodunits where faith, community, and murder intertwine. A pastor at Plantsville Congregational Church in Connecticut, Jane draws inspiration from her ministry and love of liturgical traditions. She holds degrees in Religion, History, Theology, and Biology, bringing depth and variety to her storytelling. Widow’s Walk, introduces Miranda McCurdy, a former chef turned priest navigating life and healing in the coastal town of Sparrow, Maine. When not writing or preaching, Jane enjoys New England’s beauty with her husband Don and their rescue dog, Ollie. Learn more at janewillan.com.

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Widow's Walk

FICTION  | $20
Trade Paper | 5.315” x 8.465”

ISBN: 9781960573452 
Pub Date: 10/21/2025

Widow's Walk: A Novel

by Jane Willan

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A young widow, a small-town church, and one life-changing season of second chances.

When Reverend Miranda McCurdy takes the pulpit at St. Gabriel-by-the-Sea, she’s ready to breathe new life into the quaint coastal church—but not everyone in the congregation is ready for change. Her push for progress clashes with the Thanksgiving committee’s insistence on outdated traditions, and tensions rise when a young, pregnant Honduran woman seeks sanctuary within the church walls. The response from her flock is not what Miranda hoped for—and it shakes her faith in both her calling and her community.

Before her husband’s death from ALS, Miranda was a celebrated head chef in Boston. Now, as a young widow navigating grief and spiritual doubt, she’s torn between two lives: the pulpit she’s struggling to hold onto, and a tempting offer to return to the culinary world in Seattle. When a lost dog and a charming stranger enter the picture, her path becomes even more uncertain.

Set in the picturesque town of Sparrow, Maine, Widow’s Walk is a heartwarming, hopeful novel about community, courage, and the healing power of second chances—with a generous dash of humor, food, and unexpected grace.

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Praise for Widow's Walk: A Novel

“Jane Willan’s Widow’s Walk take readers on a journey of hope through the eyes of people in a small coastal town in Downeast Maine. She balances a fast-paced story with a lot of heart for every character, handling each one with tenderness learned in her own profession as a clergywoman. And, when a hurricane’s trajectory head straight for town, well ... readers will stay up late to find out what happens.”

—Maren C. Tirabassi, former Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, LAMDA Prize nominee, and author of The Rev and Rye Mystery Series

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HISTORICAL FICTION  | $18
Trade Paper | 5.315” x 8.465”

ISBN: 978-1-7367954-2-2
Pub Date: 8/08/2023

The Bereaved

by Julia Park Tracey

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A Historical Novel about the Orphan Train and the Mothers Left Behind

Based on her research into her grandfather’s past as an adopted child, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train.

In 1859, women have few rights, even to their own children. When her husband dies and her children become wards of a predator, Martha—bereaved and scared—flees their beloved country home taking the children with her to the squalor of New York City. But as a naive woman alone, preyed on by male employers, she soon finds herself nearly destitute. The Home for the Friendless offers free food, clothing, and schooling to New York’s street kids and Martha secures a place temporarily for her children there.When she returns for them, she discovers that the Society has indentured her two eldest out to work via

the Orphan Train, and has placed her two youngest for adoption. The Society refusing to help and with the Civil War erupting around her, Martha sets out to reclaim each of them.

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Here's what Lynn Cullen, author of Mrs. Poe and The Woman with the Cure had to say about The Bereaved:

“I worried about, admired, and grieved with the indominable Martha Lozier, the heroine of Julia Park Tracey’s exquisite novel. With a sharp eye for just the right details, Tracey brings Martha’s harrowing, astonishing, and ultimately heartrending  journey to life. This “everyday” mid-19th century American woman is anything but. How right for her story to be told."


Christian Kiefer, author of Phantoms and the newly released The Heart of it All, said:

"In The Bereaved, Julia Park Tracey reopens America’s wounds in prose that is propulsive and resonant. Martha’s struggles are the stuff of classic literature. Theodore Dreiser comes to mind, but so, too, the fine contemporary novels of Jo Baker and Maggie O’Farrell." 

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