HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
Willoughby’s Return
Odiwe’s follow-up to Sense and Sensibility tries hard to invoke the Austen magic, but sadly isn’t quite up to the…
Jarrettsville
In 1869, Martha Cairnes walks up to the porch of a hotel in Jarrettsville, Maryland, where a group of ex-Union…
A Glimpse at Happiness
Josie O’Casey returns to East End London overjoyed to discover her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Nolan, is alive and well. Her…
Lord Kane’s Keepsake
Sweet-tempered Emma Rutherford is betrothed to Gerald Fitzroy, Lord Kane. It is quite a coup for a young lady from…
The Blind Side of the Heart
Eastern Germany at the end of the Second World War. The story starts with a young boy, Peter, being abandoned…
The Tehran Conviction
The third novel to feature Gabbay’s CIA sleuth, Jack Teller, pivots between Teller’s 1953 assignment in Iran and his return…
Unfinished Desires
As this novel opens, Mother Suzanne Ravenel, in her eighties in the year 2001 and the former headmistress of a…
No Less Than the Journey
The novel is set in the late 1870s. Wesley Curnow has emigrated from the Welsh coal mining country of Cornwall…
As If By Magic
On a stormy night in October 1923, the destitute and feverish George Lassiter breaks into a house in Mayfair to…
The Final Act
It is spring 1944. Before the war ends, Richard makes a mistake behind enemy lines which results in devastating tragedy.…
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