Love Lessons Series

In Secrets in Room Four, Sharer delivers an exciting new spicy genre of her historical romance writing. Her Love Lessons series is for historical romance readers who want romance stories with true emotional weight. Fans of Civil War-era fiction, will appreciate accurate, grounded storytelling. The storyline will appeal to those who are drawn to the drama of marriage, separation, and the challenge of finding true love. Book clubs looking for passionate physical romance will want to add Secrets in Room Four to their reading list.

In 1865, Captain Joshua Spencer returns home to northwestern Pennsylvania from the Civil War injured, battling battle fatigue and expecting to resume the passionate relationship he shared with his wife Helen. But Helen isn’t the same woman he left behind. She’s built a new life while he was away, one that she’s proud of and reluctant to abandon.

Secrets in Room Four isn’t just a provocative romance. It plays on conflict. Joshua feels justified in having his needs met elsewhere. Helen has every right to the life she built in his absence. Neither of them is wrong, and that’s what makes the conflict so compelling. The chasm between them deepens and promises that whatever we think is happening, there’s more underneath.

Post-Civil War America in a small town is a landscape of fractured families and people who cannot recognize each other anymore. Secrets in Room Four is an intimately personal story experienced by untold numbers of couples across the ages. This universality gives the book weight beyond its pages.

Judy fully embraced her love for writing after her retirement from Career and Technical Education. She calls writing her second career. Living in the northwestern mountains of Pennsylvania, she and her husband love the outdoors and the changing seasons that gives them a deep appreciation for Nature as seen throughout her writing. In Judy’s free time she enjoys quilting, baking, button collecting, and gardening.