Clara Sand

Daughter of the Khan

Upmarket Historical Fiction, complete at 81,000 words

When the walls of expectation close in, what will she sacrifice for freedom?

Raised to ride, shoot, and rule her father’s mountain estate in 1905 Persia, an unconventional young woman finds herself trapped between an arranged marriage, a forbidden love, and a revolution that demands she choose a side. 

Lost Valley

(in Progress)

After a disastrous performance upends her Hollywood career, 1920s silent-film star Belle Boatman heads north, intent on starting fresh – but when the chance arises to film a picture on the shores of a remote wilderness lake that could restore her reputation and save her from the debts chasing her, she takes the risk – only to find the frontier refuses to follow the script.