Margaret Drake

STUDIO: A NOVEL

In 1980s Jackson Mississippi, Lillian Leigh has begun her day as a massage therapist in the historic Lowman House when she finds a note under her door. When she discovers Shantay, a sex trafficked child, hidden in a bootlegger's tunnel beneath the house, she must decide the right thing to do to save this little girl.

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ABAYA

Elizabeth Adams expects the adventure of a lifetime when she accepts a faculty position at the Nursing Education Program at the National Saudi University for Girls but nothing could prepare her for the whirlwind of drama and intrigue she encounters as she navigates romance and rescue under the close eye of the Committee for the Protection of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. 

HAOLE WIFE

Ina Marie Martin the Haole Teacher married Dr. McNeill in 1920. They had a girl child named Leilani. This was the beginning of Prohibition in the United States and the Territories such as Hawaii. In this story Ina Marie navigates through the full wave of events driven by the forces of Prohibition.

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RECONSTRUCTING SOLDIERS

WWI was a time when women at war were few and far between. The new profession of occupational therapy was just becoming known. Lorena Longley joins this new profession and decides to be part of the war work to help US troops in France.​​​​​​

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THE SOLDIER AND THE QUAKER

In 1921, the world has moved on from the flu epidemic and World War I. Felicia Collins is ready to begin her career as a teacher in the Midwest. George Webster, the principal of the school, is slowly more and more interested in the young teacher, and as a murder mystery rocks their small town and changes up the tempo of the community and its many characters, their relationship evolves.​

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BLACKMAIL BEHIND THE BARRACKS

Blackmail behind the Barracks shares the historical tale of a Negro womans courageous quest to fulfill her dreams during World War II by convincing the world she is white.

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HOMESTEADING WOMAN

In 1910 women could not vote. The romance of the western frontier still lured many people to adventure and the quest for wealth in the prairies. Homesteaders were enticed to settle the lands with the goal of civilizing the west. Miss Ruby Taylor school teacher joined this flood of new settlers to the South Dakota plains.

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SANATORIUM GIRL

In 1920 tuberculosis was the main killer of young people. Occupational therapy had just begun as a profession unto itself. The Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanatorium had been open only two years. Louisa Anne McFarland from Jones County was sent to the Sanatorium to heal her tubercular lungs.

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A US FEMINIST IN SAUDI ARABIA

WWI was a time when women at war were few and far between. The new profession of occupational therapy was just becoming known. Lorena Longley joins this new profession and decides to be part of the war work to help US troops in France.

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HAOLE TEACHER

WWI took many men away leaving women to adapt to their absence. Iowa school teacher Ina Marie Martin found herself a victim of this tumultuous time. Like men who were physically or mentally injured she needed to recover to find a way to avoid becoming an outcast. She fled her shame and found a new life on the Island of Hawaii.

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MEN'S RECEIVING WARD

The medical needs of wounded soldiers during WWII caused military hospitals at home and on battle fronts to take on many doctors, nurses and ancillary healthcare workers.  This left a severe deficit for the home folks.  After peace came again, the discharged medical workers transitioned back to domestic institutions.  This is the story of an occupational therapist and doctors and nurses in an Iowa hospital during that upheaval. 

THE DISAPPEARING PATIENT

A southern occupational therapist works with a difficult patient who disappears. She grapples with ties of home versus the draw of adventure and decides it is time to leave her hometown job and take a position in southern Alaska.

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