HNR Issue 42 (November 2007)
Loving Frank
This debut novel explores the little-known romance between the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the wife of one of his…
War Brides
War Brides is the story of five young women who come together in a small Sussex village in 1939. From…
No Regrets
Carolyn Torrington has had a crush on Lucas, Lord Foxhaven, since childhood. Nevertheless she turns down his proposal, knowing it’s…
The Last Summer Of The World
Editors' choice
Rarely does a book present the delicate balance of the relationship between a man and a woman as well as…
The Well Of Shades
When I finished The Well of Shades (which I assumed was the last book of the Bridei Chronicles), I thought…
A Texas Legacy Christmas
The formerly incorrigible Zach Kahler is all grown up in this sequel to Lightning and Lace. It’s 1911, and Zach…
The Coal Gatherer
Callie is one of many children born to Mary and Ebeneezer Ingram, fisher-folk who scratch a precarious and impoverished living…
The Journal of Dora Damage
Editors' choice
Dora Damage has a name straight from Dickens, and in fact her tale would not be out of place in…
The Island
As London-born Alexis Fielding, a modern-day college graduate, explores her past, she is drawn to visit a former Greek leper…
Heaven’s Net Is Wide: The First Tale of the Otori
In this gripping prequel to the Otori novels set in an alternate feudal Japan, Hearn delves into the back story…
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