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The QUEEN that WEARS the CROWN- my new novel.
“Author Horane Smith has created a thrilling mystery in this lush Caribbean landscape. The Queen That Wears The Crown is like an intoxicating combination of escapism and reality…filled with secrets waiting to be unlocked… colorful characters…every chapter leads the reader deeper and deeper…” says the Independent Book Review.
“The characters are lively and appealing…twisty…consuming mystery…” says Booklife Publisher’s Weekly
In a town where secrets run deep and danger lurks in every shadow, one woman’s fight for justice will uncover a truth darker than she ever imagined.
When three young girls disappear and a brutal double murder shatters the peace of Parrot Valley, social activist Carmen Young is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Determined to bring justice to her small Jamaican town, Carmen uncovers a web of lies that ties the crimes to her own life — putting her upcoming marriage and her very future in jeopardy. With her fiancé framed for a murder he didn’t commit and a trusted friend turning into her worst enemy, Carmen must race against time to unravel the truth. But as dark secrets and hidden motives come to light, she realizes that the real enemy is closer than she ever imagined. The Queen’that Wears the Crown is a tense Caribbean crime drama where betrayal, deception, and the pursuit of justice come at a deadly cost.
Welcome to the official website for award-winning author Horane Smith. We truly appreciate your visit.
Here you can purchase “gripping” and “hard to put down” novels by an author who has been described as “no ordinary novelist,” and one who’s “prolific…entertaining, and growing from strength to strength.” Please take the time to explore the site to see what we have to offer – from adventures to slavery legends; from history to contemporary; from music to travel, it’s all here with characters that are real and with “settings that are disturbingly visual.” My novels are available in print and e-book formats. My just-released novel is Morant Bay; Based on the Jamaican Rebellion, the sequel to my best-selling novel Lover’s Leap: Based on the Jamaican Legend. It’s available on Amazon.com in Kindle format and paperback.
The Lover’s Leap trilogy is complete!
It is 1865, post-slavery Jamaica, and its eastern town of Morant Bay, is on the verge of anarchy. A Baptist deacon leads the struggle to lift former slaves out of poverty, but he has a battle on his hands with dozens of his followers already killed, and an insensitive Governor about to declare martial law.
Andrew Campbell, son of a white woman and a former slave, who committed suicide with another slave at the now infamous and legendary beauty spot Lover’s Leap, on the southern coast thirty-five years earlier, vowed to his father to pursue the fight for the freedom he never enjoyed – even if it meant death.
Andrew sets out to visit Morant Bay, a powder keg waiting to explode, but the opportunity the burning town provides for his political career is too much to ignore. His best friend has become his worst enemy, a foe he did not need at this precarious time. Furthermore, the women in Andrew’s life – his mother, future bride and a secret admirer wrestle with the prospect of tragedy. Andrew is caught between the fires of injustice and the fires of passion and commitment. Andrew has a lot at stake. Time is running out. It is now or never; do or die in troubled Morant Bay.
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