HNR Issue 52 (May 2010)
The Widow’s Husband
The Great Game of European powers jostling for control of Afghanistan took a terrible toll in early 1842 with the…
Desires of a Perfect Lady
When her husband’s unexpected murder frees Lady Olivia Rathbourne from a wretched union, she is eager to begin a new…
Midnight Fires
After a major disappointment in love, aspiring author Mary Wollstonecraft must support herself and takes a position as governess to…
The Time of Terror
This novel opens in 1793 with Nathaniel Peake, master and commander of the British brig sloop Nereus, patrolling the sea…
Here Burns My Candle
In 1745 in Edinburgh, the widowed Lady Marjory Kerr and her family await the arrival of the Jacobites, led by…
The Second Woman
In 1881 Russian Jews were placed in the Pale of Settlements, Pilzna, during the pogroms. Thirteen children in hiding were…
A Secret Affair
After ten years of marriage to the ancient Duke of Dunbarton, and one year of mourning his death, his thirty-year-old…
Calico Palace
Two women meet in a village of 900 people in 1848 California. Kendra reluctantly accompanies her stepfather, who is an…
Parrot and Olivier in America
Editors' choice
What a delight this witty novel is! Based on the journeys of Alexis de Tocqueville in the new American republic…
Beecher Island
In 1868, hostilities between the Cheyenne Indians and the U.S. cavalry are heating up under the direction of the war…
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