Do you love complex couples in historical fiction? Individuals who are strong and independent on their own, but who are even better together in a loving relationship?
My favorites are Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey and Helena Justina and Marcus Didius Falco. Thanks to the inspiration of those incredible characters, I've done my best to create my own complex couples—American, Australian, and French—in times and settings that are challenging and fascinating.
I'm a former technical writer who writes about love, loss, secrets, and redemption during challenging historical times. I became enthralled by stories of Americans and Australians working and fighting together in WWI France and WWII Australia and have published two novels, Dare Not Tell and The Bravest Soldiers, which feature Sophie and Joe Parker as main characters. My short story “Ripples In a Pond” in Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women, is a companion piece to my novels.
When I'm not writing Sophie and Joe’s next chapter or dreaming up travel plans for fun and research, I wrangle the rescue cocker spaniels that I and my supportive, understanding husband have welcomed into our home and hearts.
In between writing, I format other authors' books for publication as well as my own books. I'd love to format your paperback and epub! Send me an email or message me on Instgram or Facebook.
I'm a member of the Historical Novel Society, the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and The Authors Guild.
P.S. I hope you love reading my books as much as I've loved writing them!
Do you love complex couples in historical fiction? Individuals who are strong and independent on their own, but who are even better together in a loving relationship?
My favorites are Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey and Helena Justina and Marcus Didius Falco. Thanks to the inspiration of those incredible characters, I've done my best to create my own complex couples—American, Australian, and French—in times and settings that are...
Love and Loss, Secrets, and Redemption in WWI France and Australia
ISBN: 979-8-9852616-0-8
364 pages
Twenty years after he left WWI’s battlefields, Australian Joe Parker thinks he has tamed all his demons. His American wife Sophie, a wartime nurse, thinks she knows all his secrets. He hasn’t. She doesn’t.
July 1939. The Parkers are looking forward to a long-delayed honeymoon in France before they sail home to...
Love and Longing in WWII Australia and the South West Pacific Area
ISBN: 979-8-9852616-2-2
414 pages
As the Pacific War looms ever closer to Australia, will waiting and wondering break two women's hearts?
September 1939. Sophie Parker nursed wounded soldiers in France during the Great War. She knows the physical and mental devastation war can wreak on hearts, minds, and bodies. When WWII breaks out, and Australia...
“Though World War II novels are commonplace, Schroller has managed to write an affecting tale with memorable characters that stands out from the crowd. A rich and moving saga of bravery both at home and in the face of battle.”
I've joined together with a few of my author friends to offer our readers the chance to win a bundle of 7 novels set in France, each one signed by the author.
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Here’s a taste of the books in the bundle. I read and loved these books in the giveaway
Her Own War by Debra Borchert: Romance and derring-do in the early Napoleonic era: Her Own War is a masterful blend of strong women and honorable men struggling to survive and hoping to thrive at the end of the...
I'd already dreamed up an American nurse and an Australian soldier for Dare Not Tell. Why not continue their story? And because the writing and research gods smiled on me with these photos. I mention in the Afterword of The Bravest Soldiers that the Australian War Memorial is a literal trove of visual treasures. Their collections of art and photographs have been pure inspiration for both books.
Americans and Australians have a long history together. After Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7,...
I learned so much on the subject of facial wounds, reconstructive surgery, and masks during the course of writing Dare Not Tell, that I was compelled to explore the repercussions on Sophie Parker's (a major character in both my novels) life and psyche in “Ripples in a Pond,” my short story in the anthology Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women.
6kph7xt7d4b1fi6do985n16uoxdc1.66 MBSophie was a nurse at the American Hospital in Paris during WWI. When the war ended, she married her...
