Carolyn Kay Brancato writes historical fiction that explores riveting situations that prompt ordinary people to do extraordinary things in unusual times. Writing with deep compassion, her stories reveal the love, joy, humor and desire that combine to form multifaceted characters who constantly grow and surprise.

Her characters are as varied and unique as her subject matter: a young woman who poses as a nun to work in the French Resistance … a pig trainer in a Russian traveling circus who wants to restore his family’s honor … a clown who strives to find the courage and skill to become a magician like his father … brave resistance men and women risk their lives to evade the Nazis and guide pilots shot down over the Pyrénées into Spain.

While set in differing historical periods, all of Carolyn’s novels share similar themes involving the lengths to which people will go to find love, maintain their sense of integrity, and discover their true nature as they struggle against oppression.