19th Century
The Haunting Of Houses
Inspired by Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, this unusual novel tells the story of Aspen Stewart, Heathcliff’s daughter, born of a…
Iron Ties
In Leadville, Colorado, in 1880, the town is waiting for the railroad to be constructed, but not everyone is happy…
Devotion
This slender novel provides a rather romanticized account of the life of Winnie (née Varina Anne) Davis. The second daughter…
The Enigmatic Rake
Plot elements of Jane Eyre meet late Regency espionage in this fast-moving historical romance. Lord Joshua Sherborne Farington has the…
Hawk’s Pledge
Whit Hawk grew up in a horrific environment. After losing his parents, he and his siblings are sent to an…
Mary
Committed to the Bellevue Place Sanitarium by her eldest son in 1875, Mary Todd Lincoln begins to write the story…
She Went To The Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War
Until relatively recently, Clara Barton, Belle Boyd, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth van Lew, and a very few others were the only…
All For Love
In All for Love, Dan Jacobson brings to light a tempestuous turn-of-the-century affair amid the petty royals of the Austro-Hungarian…
The Marriage Spell
Abigail is a wizard in early 19th-century England, a healer of great talent, but wizards are feared and despised.…
Against a Crimson Sky
In this sequel to Push Not the River, Martin continues the story of Anna Berezowska and her family as they…
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