Beauty and Grace: A Historical Novel

Beauty & Grace is an intensely moving work of historical fiction telling the stories of Teagan Cormick and Grace Reid, women from different worlds and different eras, brought together within the haunting confines of Midland's Wood Haven asylum.

Teagan leads readers through her early life in Queenstown, County Cork, through her youthful immigration to America and her chilling, involuntary commitment to Wood Haven following The Crash of 1929.

Grace arrives at Wood Haven in 1978, hired as a consultant to deinstitutionalize the ten remaining patients trapped for decades within the asylum walls and to deal with Midland citizens determined to prevent "asylum people" from moving into their community.

Together, Teagan and Grace lead Wood Haven patients from the dark past into new lives, in the process telling stories and sharing memories that form a lasting imprint in readers' hearts.