“This may be when I die,” she thought. He was not her chosen instrument of death, but the place was. Here, on her beloved mountain.

Karen Hagersten writes historical novels. Bound in Scarlet Thread is a three-part young adult novel about an orphaned girl in the late 1100s in Languedoc, France, who stops eating to resist being reclaimed by her family. In Rent-a-Husband, three women in Silicon Valley start a well-needed business.

A third novel, set in Victorian England, is about a progressive widow from the city seeking to show her children nature and discovering a fantastical tree house on the estate of a bitter, reclusive landowner.

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