title: Main Street: A Gables and Gingerbread Story
author: Mollie Lyon
description: Mollie started putting stories to paper by drawing in the margins of her mother's cookbook. As soon as she could put letters into words and words into sentences Mollie wrote stories for her drawings. And soon the writing outshone the drawings. Mollie loved writing assignments throughout school and nursing school. Thirty two years of nursing--traveling the roads for home health--have built many stories in her mind. Researching local history led to her desire to write historical fiction. Mollie has been married for thirty two years. She lives with two adult daughters, two cats and a dog. She plans to write many more stories based on her experiences, family, and local history. You can read her blog at Miss Mollie's Musings, missmolliesmusings.blogspot.com.
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  The Scandalous Lyon
  
  
  By
  
  Maggi Andersen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  London, March 1814
  
  
  Through the mist, Lord Jason Glazebrook strolled toward the distinctive blue
  house on Cleveland Row in Whitehall. Inside there would be warmth and life.
  The levity of alcohol-inspired revelry, contrasting starkly with the dismal
  exterior of the night was a perfect distraction for a man whose world had
  fallen apart.
  
  
  The Lyon’s Den, one of the most successful gaming houses in London, offered
  many attractions and was efficiently run by Mrs. Bessie Dove-Lyon, whose past
  was mired in mystery. Rumor had it that she’d been a courtesan; others said
  that she was well-born. She’d married young, and well. Her husband, Colonel
  Sandstrom T. Lyon from a respectable family, was much older than she and died
  only a few years after they wed. The enterprising Dove-Lyon had then converted
  her house into a well-paying business, catering to gamblers, those looking for
  games of an unusual sort, and t