HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
The Inquest
In 1830 Burlington, Vermont, a young woman named “Speedy” (Experience) Goodrich dies of a botched abortion. An inquest is held…
The Amalgamation Polka
Liberty Fish is born in 1844 to an uncommon set of parents. His father is a Northern abolitionist; his mother…
Our Lives Are the Rivers
History recognizes Manuela Sáenz, mistress of the 19th century revolutionary Simón Bolívar, as one of South America’s earliest feminists…
The Price of Pride
Brace yourself. MacQuigg launches The Price of Pride with a double murder and charges toward a shootout ending that…
Louisa and the Crystal Gazer
It has become quite fashionable and profitable in the American writing world for an author to take a well-known person…
The King’s Lizard: A Tale of Murder and Deception in Old Santa Fe in 1782
Nando Anguilar is the young son of a Spanish don and a Ute slave. Captured and taken as a…
Captive of My Desires
After spending three years in the Caribbean treasure hunting with her pirate father, Gabrielle Brooks returns to the city of…
Brookland
The novel opens with a confessional letter from an unusual woman to her grown daughter, Recompense, living far from…
To Distraction
Since this is the fifth Regency romance in her Bastion Club series (“a last bastion against the matchmakers of…
Game of Patience
When two people are found murdered in post-revolutionary Paris, police agent Aristide Ravel investigates. Ravel discovers the male victim…
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