HNR Issue 51 (February 2010)
On Viney’s Mountain
Viney Walker’s world is changing, and she doesn’t like it one bit. Orphaned along with her older brother and sister…
The Puzzle King
Simon Phelps emigrated to the United States as a nine-year-old boy, making the journey from Latvia to New York City…
Scoundrel’s Kiss
Ada of Keyworth is unusual for a medieval woman. Educated by her family, she’s adventurous, headstrong, and strikingly beautiful—but she’s…
Crossers
Crossers is a very satisfying read that follows three generations of a family while exposing the realities of border issues…
The Templar Magician
Editors' choice
The Templar Magician is an action-packed historical adventure set in 1152 during the civil war between King Stephen and Matilda’s…
Hitler’s War: September 1938 — War is declared
Many people regard alternative history as neither legitimate history nor legitimate historical fiction. Yet the past has meaning only in…
Requiem by Fire
Set in 1928 North Carolina, in Requiem by Fire Caldwell returns to the Appalachia of his first novel, Cataloochee. The…
Rainwater
Ella Barron meets David Rainwater in the midst of the Depression in the summer of 1934. She is busy running…
Ice Land
Iceland, at the dawn of a new millennium. King Olaf’s Christian missionaries are attempting to convert the fiercely independent landholders…
The Last Illusion
It is a hot, muggy July in 1903. Molly Murphy, private investigator, is lamenting her lack of new cases. She…
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