19th Century
The Parlor House Daughter
Rebecca Rose’s beginnings are inauspicious. Born to a Nevada City prostitute, she witnesses her mother’s murder at an early age.…
Lucky Billy: A Novel about Billy the Kid
This novel takes place between 1878 and 1881 when young Billy the Kid was involved in the Lincoln County War…
No Less Than The Journey
Wesley Curnow, a young miner leaves Cornwall for the United States in response to an invitation from his uncle, who…
Treachery
Commander Thomas Kydd is devastated by the unexpected death of his fiancée, Rosalynd. Distraught with grief he embarks on a…
The Slave Dancer
This reissued Newbery Honor book tells what could easily be a true story. Beginning in 1839, thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier is…
Murder Most Welcome
Charlotte Richmond is an outwardly grieving Victorian widow who comes to live with her husband’s family. Her husband’s apparent death…
An Unexpected Love
This second book in The Broadmoor Legacy continues the story of cousins Sophie, Fanny, and Amanda Broadmoor, three heiresses who,…
A Promise To Believe In
It is 1879 in Montana Territory. Gwen Gallatin is beginning to feel she is cursed. First, her husband, Harvey Bishop,…
Black Jack Anderson
There is always a danger when writing a pirate story of making it too exciting, of somehow condoning the crime.…
Sacajawea
The eagerly anticipated paperback edition of this acclaimed story of the Bird Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)…
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