title: Shadows In My Room & What's That Noise: Bedtime Stories
author:  Linda Weaver Clarke 
description: Linda Weaver Clarke travels throughout the United States, teaching and encouraging people to write their family history and autobiography. She is the mother of six daughters and has several grandchildren. Clarke is the author of an award-winning sweet romance, Melinda and the Wild West, for the Reviewers Choice Award. She has several historical sweet romances and a mystery/adventure series. She has also written two non-fiction e-books: Reflections of the Heart and Writing Your Family Legacy. All her books are family friendly.
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  Karen Ranney
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Upon a Wicked Time
  
  ![](images/00001.jpg)
  
  To Mary Kay Smargiassi,  
  a fan who became a friend
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [Prologue](index_split_003.html#filepos6936)
  
  Once upon a hill, a breeze danced merrily. Brushing through…
  
  [Chapter 1](index_split_004.html#filepos22014)
  
  It is my wedding night. My wedding night. Even repeating…
  
  [Chapter 2](index_split_005.html#filepos56777)
  
  Sunlight flickered like tongues of flame across the pale ivory…
  
  [Chapter 3](index_split_006.html#filepos64344)
  
  “Such a sweet looking thing,” the woman said. “But then,…
  
  [Chapter 4](index_split_007.html#filepos80443)
  
  “What the devil is that noise?”
  
  [Chapter 5](index_split_008.html#filepos91383)
  
  She couldn’t find him.
  
  [Chapter 6](index_split_009.html#filepos111862)
  
  Tessa was seated at her dressing table, her maid stood…
  
  [Chapter 7](index_split_010.html#filepos131306)
  
  “It looks idiotic, Charles.”
  
  [Chapter 8](index_split_011.html#filepos158030)
  
  Halfway home, their compan