HNR Issue 44 (May 2008)
The First Samurai : The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado
Taira Masakado, a fifth-generation descendant of Emperor Kashiwabara, is a cultured aristocrat whose response to attack prompts an appropriate…
Daphne
Here is a novel which combines the life stories and the novels of Daphne du Maurier and the Brontës, a…
In the House of the Magician
(1) 1570s, Elizabethan England. When country girl Lucy flees from her drunken father and sets off to London to find…
The Grail Enigma : The Hidden Heirs of Jesus and Mary Magdalene
The theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and founded a dynasty inextricably entwined with the search for the Holy…
The Aquila Project
London, June 1894. The Prince of Wales arrives to open Tower Bridge; the police discover a bomb in one of…
Was Napoleon Poisoned? And Other Unsolved Mysteries of Royal History
If King Tut was murdered, why? Did King Arthur really exist? Compelling evidence suggests a Roman general may have…
Trail of the Red Butterfly
In 1807, a Cheyenne warrior named Stone learns that his twin brother, Whirlwind, is missing after leading a raid into…
Courting Shadows
One would be hard-pressed to find a more unpleasant protagonist than John Stannard. A young architect commissioned in 1881 to…
Healing Water
Imagine being fourteen and diagnosed with a deadly disease. Now imagine being torn away from the loving arms of…
Starlight over Simla
Rose Fielding is bored stiff with the lifestyle that Edwardian London offers her: endless rounds of fancy balls and tea…
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