19th Century
Dead Born
This superb novel, one in the series of Joan Lock’s Detective Sergeant Best mysteries, was originally published in 2001 and…
Red Sky in Morning
Coll Coyle makes a dreadful mistake that changes the course of his life and is set to lose everything as…
Windswept
Prepare to be swept away by this romance set in 1838. Virginia Ames has been shipwrecked in the Florida Keys…
Reunion
In 1860, Serena Farrar wants nothing more than to be a writer. Her home is in Brunswick, Massachusetts. Her aspirations…
Victorian Time
Pardon the pun, but this is a timely publication when current technological advances are affecting the way we perceive time…
Lady Catherine’s Necklace
In this ‘Jane Austen Entertainment’, Joan Aiken turns her attention to the goings-on at Rosings Park, home of the indomitable…
Waiting for Spring: Westward Winds, Book 2
Cabot’s Western romance, the second in a trilogy (after Summer of Promise, 2012), follows a frightened young woman on the…
Awakening
Editors' choice
1860. A year after Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking Origin of Species, the evangelical community of Wiltshire has far more…
Where the Light Falls
Keenum’s ambitious first novel opens in 1878, when Jeanette Palmer, an aspiring artist, convinces her parents to send her to…
Widow of Gettysburg: Book Two, Heroines Behind the Scenes
Troops close in on Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1863. Liberty Holloway, a young Union widow, has a farm near Cemetery Ridge,…
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