19th Century
Running Against the Tide
It is 1800, and Ginny Marcombe is the son her father, Josiah, never had. She works with him in his…
Kipling & Trix
Mary Hamer’s Kipling and Trix elegantly walks the borders between fact and fiction in her retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s story…
India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy (A Madam of Espionage Mystery)
This is the third book in the India Black series, and they only get better. India Black runs an up-and-coming…
The Colours of Corruption
The Colours of Corruption’s cover is suggestive of the atmosphere the author means to evoke, in a palette of murky…
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
We readers of Jane Austen may feel we know the author by her characters and novels, but factors such as world…
Though My Heart Is Torn: Cadence of Grace, Book 2
The second book in Bischof’s series set in 19th-century Appalachia (after Be Still My Soul, 2012) continues the story of…
The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow
Chicago is hosting the 1893 World’s Fair, and the residents of Prairie Avenue and their staffs are counting down the…
The Doctor and the Rough Rider
Doc Holliday, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, and Geronimo join forces against a host of rival Indian tribes and a supernatural…
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
The “lady scientist” character is becoming a stock figure in 19th-century historical romance. She gives authors the opportunity to create…
Asylum
Editors' choice
When Georgina Ferrars awakens to find herself in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England, she…
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