HNR Issue 60 (May 2012)
The Irish Healer
An inspiring yet predictable story of love blooming between different social classes, The Irish Healer depicts the story of Rachel…
Ghosts of the Titanic
Kevin Messenger is a disappointment. He knows this because his father reminds him of it every day. Kevin is not…
Witchstruck
This novel for young adults follows the adventures of Meg Lytton, a young girl in the service of the Princess…
A Partial History of Lost Causes
In 1979 Leningrad, a stranger, Aleksandr Bezetov, arrives in town from the eastern USSR. He befriends three dissidents, and although…
Wicked City
Alaya Johnson (Moonshine) spins another tale set in an alternate universe 1920s New York City, one that shares its streets…
The House at Sea’s End
The ever-encroaching sea on the coast of Norfolk, England uncovers six skeletons, bound, shot, and hidden in a deep cove.…
The Sisters
Bertie and her older sister Mabel have stuck together since the death of their mother a few years ago. Life…
Under the Same Sky
Maggie and her sisters are left to fend for themselves in colonial South Carolina after their brutish father dies in…
Circle of Shadows
Another instalment detailing the adventures of Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther, an unlikely detective pairing which works in unusual ways,…
To Take Her Pride
Growing up in the Yorkshire countryside in 1898, Aurora Pettigrew has almost everything a young woman could want: adoring parents,…
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