18th Century
Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island
There are writers today who have hitched their wagon to a classical star such as Jane Austen and based…
To Beguile a Beast
After the Battle of Spinner’s Falls in the American colonies, the British survivors and their allies are marched into…
The Witching Voice
The date of publication for this novel of Robert Burns’s life and work was the 250th anniversary of poet’s…
The Way It Was
The novel opens on the cusp of the American War of Independence in 1775. Opening the story before the…
The Naqib’s Daughter
As in her previous, acclaimed novel, The Cairo House, the setting is Cairo, but now it is the late…
The Red Siren
Twenty-four-year-old Faith Westcott leads a double life: By day, she is the obedient daughter of Rear Admiral Westcott in…
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol II, The Kingdom of the Waves
Editors' choice
African-American youth Octavian escapes with his trusted tutor Doctor Trefusis from the eccentric Bostonian gentlemen who raised him as a…
Chains
Teenaged Isabel and her five-year-old sister Ruth had understood they would be freed upon the death of their owner. But…
The Revolution of Sabine
Sabine Durand, an aristocratic sixteen-year-old living in 18th-century Paris, is growing weary of her mother’s fixation on society and entertaining.…
The United States of Atlantis
Atlantis has been settled by the English and the French for over 300 years. Now, at the end of the…
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