Edward Ware Thriller Series — What’s It About?

It should be possible to start with any volume. Only two are published so far though I have six more in manuscript form. I’ve been experimenting with self-publishing Key to Lawrence and 1934 Plot (and next February 15 Key to Lawrence:Special Edition) while I continue to market volume three, variously called either Hitler’s Daughter or Captive At The Berghof, to various agents, small presses, presses, etc. The volumes are sequential. In other words Key to Lawrence starts the story in 1915. The last volume ends it in 1945. Four of the volumes are from Dora’s point of view and four are from Edward’s. 1934 Plot is not a novel but a novelette. It’s the “between the wars” part of the tale.

Hitler’s First Lady seems to be an historical novel with lots of real stuff in it. Instead I write mystery thrillers, supernatural novels, and that sort of thing. All the novels in the Edward Ware Thriller Series are historical thrillers with the emphasis on “thrillers”. Some of the volumes are more historical, some are less so. In 1934 Plot the historical background is more distant. Dora must find out who is Leopold? When she does, it changes her life forever. The personal drama is emphasized, though the opening chapter is real enough. The Morro Castle really did catch fire off the coast of New Jersey on September 8, 1934. It really was because of suspected arson. But I fictionalize from there.

By contrast Key to Lawrence has a lot more history in it. It starts with a 70-page sequence on the sinking of the Lusitania. Then it moves onto the campaigns of Lawrence of Arabia in the Syrian Desert and ends with the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. How do I connect the sinking of the Lusitania to the campaigns of Lawrence? That’s the key to Lawrence.

The volume that sticks the most closely to history is volume 3, which I’m now calling Captive At The Berghof. It opens in 1935 with the Anglo-German Naval Treaty and ends with the 1st Battle of El Alamein in 1942. Just about every chapter parallels something actually going on. The blurb for the novel that I use in all my queries is as follows:
Adolf Hitler runs his hand over two-month-old Thomasina Ware’s little head. “Red hair like hers is so very rare. Her hair is ethereal like the sky when it is on fire with the setting sun.” He shows her off to his Nazi officers. Her astounded parents, Colonel Sir Edward Ware and his American wife, Dora, watch in horror.
Ware’s an undercover agent for backbencher Winston Churchill, who’s running his own foreign policy in opposition to the Baldwin government. The two men are the sole possessors of the most coveted secret in Europe — the Lawrence maps drawn by the late Lawrence of Arabia. They explain how to take and defend every major position in the Middle East, including the oilfields that are the key to victory in the next war.
Hitler has found out Ware’s secret, and he’s playing hardball. He kidnaps Thomasina and won’t give the child back unless the Wares hand over the key to world domination — the Lawrence maps. They’d better do something fast before Thomasina truly becomes Hitler’s daughter.