HNR Issue 49 (August 2009)
Crooked Smile
The wages due to the Irish navvies digging a cutting for the Kelsford Canal are snatched, then one of the…
Rio Chama
New Mexico Territory in the 1890s was as wild as the West could be with gunslingers, cattle rustlers, and hostile…
Emily’s Ghost: A Novel of the Brontë Sisters
William Weightman, the personable young curate who assisted the Reverend Patrick Brontë at Haworth Parsonage for several years, is best…
Cruel Lord Cranham
Sarah Lovell was living a contented life in England in 1803. She had good friends, an attentive father and a…
Miss Cheney’s Charade
Emma Cheney is in London in 1815 at the height of the season, determined to do her duty to make…
Without a Mother’s Love
In 1830s Yorkshire, Harriet Trent moves to Hill Top House, hired as a governess for Olivia Copley who has been…
Child of the South
This sequel to The Road from Chapel Hill continues the saga of Eugenia Mae Spotswood and Tom Maryson now that…
The Turquoise
Santa Fe Cameron never knew her aristocratic Spanish mother. When she was seven years old, her Scottish father discovered that…
Sunnyside
Editors' choice
Gold’s panoramic novel of World War I and early Hollywood opens with a mass delusion: film actor Charlie Chaplin is…
A Reliable Wife
Ralph Truitt and Catherine Land meet at a train station in rural Wisconsin in 1907. Ralph’s ad for a reliable…
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