Alix Rickloff

Alix Rickloff writes historical fiction and romance, including earlier genre work published under the name Alexa Egan. Secrets of Nanreath Hall, issued by William Morrow in 2016, moves between Cornwall in 1913 and 1940. Lady Katherine Trenowyth leaves the expectations of her family after meeting painter Simon Halliday, while her daughter Anna later returns to Nanreath Hall as a wartime Red Cross nurse and searches for the history she never knew. The dual timeline links two world wars through questions of inheritance, art, class, and family secrecy. Rickloff followed the novel with The Way to London, another work set during the Second World War. Her earlier paranormal and historical romances include the Muses of Mayfair and Bligh Family series. Secrets of Nanreath Hall marked a shift toward broader historical family fiction while preserving her interest in women navigating restrictive institutions, divided loyalties, and the consequences of concealed relationships.