HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)
A Hint of Wicked
Sophie, Duchess of Calton, is widowed at a young age when her husband, Garrett, disappears following the battle at Waterloo.…
The Book of Night Women
Editors' choice
The Book of Night Women is a beautifully written, sweeping tale of Jamaican slavery set in the early 19th century.…
Ambush at Mustang Canyon
Free Anderson, a former slave, and Parks Scott are partners in a business selling tamed mustangs to the Army in…
Remittance Man
Set in Melbourne in 1885, this novel centres on Maude Hanford, “short, not quite pretty” and seeming to be as…
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One
Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy depicts the first months of matrimony of the famous couple from Pride and Prejudice. The…
In a Gilded Cage
Molly Murphy joins her unconventional neighbors Sid and Gus, as well as other Vassar graduates, at a march for women’s…
A Trace of Smoke
Trolling for a story at Berlin’s Hall of the Unnamed Dead, crime reporter Hannah Vogel is shocked to find a…
The Naked Baron
When Grace Belmont went to London for her season accompanied by her aunt, Lady Oxbury, it was for one reason…
Rifling Paradise
Charles Redbourne, a minor middle-aged English landholder, is forced by a series of unsavory circumstances to flee to Australia in…
Woodsburner
In this novel based on a true story, Henry David Thoreau accidentally sets fire to three hundred acres of woods…
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