Books
Kim has authored three novels and co-written two etiquette books. Her latest is slated for an April 2017 release.
Seven Days in May
“Readers cannot help but feel we too are aboard that doomed ship.” – Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake
As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar. Sydney has other adventures in mind; she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister. As international tempers flare, the German embassy releases a warning that any ships making the Atlantic crossing are at risk. Undaunted, Sydney and Brooke board the Lusitania for the seven-day voyage with Edward, not knowing that disaster lies ahead.
In London, Isabel Nelson, a young woman grateful to have escaped her blemished reputation in Oxford, has found employment at the British Admiralty in the mysterious Room 40. She begins as a secretary, but it isn’t long before her skills in codes and cyphers are called on, and she learns a devastating truth and the true cost of war.
As the days of the voyage pass, these four lives collide in a struggle for survival as the Lusitania meets its deadly fate.
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My Life in Black and White
See to it you can take a slap as easy as a kiss. That is if you want to get anywhere in this world and not be anybody’s fool. Clara Bishop feels life has served her up far too many slaps and not nearly enough kisses. Freshly jilted by her philandering husband, she follows him to London determined to win him back. Armed only with a suitcase of vintage clothing inherited from her grandmother, Clara discovers that the clothes really do make the woman. Dressed to kill, she adopts a new femme fatale persona: confident, sexy and set on revenge. But as her quest unfolds Clara’s life is transported back in time into a living, breathing film noir from the fifties, she discovers not only the secrets of her grandmother’s past, but the chance to write her own ending too…
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The Jane Austen Marriage Manual
“[A] delightful page-turner of a romantic comedy that’s filmic in its deft depictions of characters and sharp plot twists. – The Globe and Mail “A surfeit of laugh-out-loud moments.
Spectacular descriptions of lavish, character-filled parties add further froth to this escapist fantasy.” – Publisher’s Weekly
In the middle of the recession Kate, a freelance journalist and self-professed Jane Austen addict, finds herself single, unemployed and soon-to-be-homeless. In desperation she accepts a writing assignment to prove a theory that in the toughest economic times a wealthy man is the only must-have accessory. And, with just Jane Austen’s advice for company, she sets off to see if Mr. Rich can ever become Mr. Right.
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The Fabulous Girl’s Code Red: A Guide to Grace Under Pressure
The sequel, The Fabulous Girl’s Code Red: A Guide to Grace Under Pressure, takes the “manners make you sexy” mantra from the first book and applies it to the stickiest and trickiest situations you may find in your life.
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