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the davis family
In the spring of 1853, the Davis sisters were preparing for Clara's sixteenth birthday. Within months, everything they knew would be gone — the elegance of their Manhattan life traded for the dust and desperation of Gold Rush California.
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real world inspiration
The Davis family's Manhattan home is invented, but it was inspired by a real residence.
New York's Merchant's House Museum, on East Fourth Street in NoHo, is the only nineteenth-century family residence in the city to survive completely intact: the same furniture, the same china, even the family's clothing, preserved just as it was almost a hundred years ago. Walking through those rooms, even just virtually — the gracious parlors, the carefully documented domestic detail — made it possible for me to picture how the Davis family moved through their own days in the 1850s, and shaped the atmosphere, the rituals, and the quiet social codes my Davis Crest stories lean on.
Period portraiture did the rest, guiding the clothing, the posture, and the composed dignity my characters carry onto the page.
bringing the davis residence to life
The facade of the residence
The formal parlor
Mary and Susan's bedroom
These custom images were created to translate historical research into the visual world of the novel. Each scene is inspired by nineteenth-century New York interiors and reimagined to reflect the character, mood, and narrative needs of the Davis family home.
Behind every door in Davis Crest
there is a story.
It began with one woman's promise during the California gold rush — a vow that refused to be forgotten.
Promises, Book One of the Davis Crest trilogy, launches on Kickstarter this September.
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