19th Century
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,…
No Safe Harbor
Cara Hamilton arrives in 1897 New York alone on an immigrant ship from Ireland, looking for her brother Eoghan, who…
Butch Cassidy: The Lost Years
Hank Parker, a cowboy of eighty-plus years, has a past he’d rather keep hidden. In 1950 Parker is the same…
The Barbed Crown
William Dietrich’s sixth foray into the swashbuckling world of Ethan Gage easily lives up to his previous efforts. If you…
Miss Whittier Makes a List
In 1801, young American Quaker Hannah Whittier is an innocent victim of the Napoleonic wars when she is shipwrecked after…
Dark Prairie
Nesbitt’s laconic 1890s Western opens when a stranger rides into the small town of Winsome, Wyoming. Dunbar has a lot…
All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship
All Standing tells of one of the greatest human rights atrocities of all time, the Irish potato famine of the…
The Center of the World
J. M. W. Turner, the famed 19th-century British artist, is a master of color with a fiercely independent and iconoclastic…
The India Fan
Drusilla Delany has always lived in the shadow of the Framling family; as daughter to the local rector, she is…
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