Ancient World (Other)
The Sun’s Bride
The Eastern Mediterranean, 246 BC. The Rhodian warship Atalanta and her naked crew (that got your attention) come across and…
Empire Rising
Mesopotamia, 3157 BC. A bloody tyrant is dead in Akkad, and the city is ruled by erstwhile wild man, Eskkar,…
The Eagle and the Raven
Had the tale been passed down from earliest times, The Eagle and the Raven could well be Britain’s epic poem.…
The Palace of Illusions
Set in a mythic age, “when the lives of men and gods still intersected,” this new novel from feminist writer…
The Musketeer’s Seamstress
Aramis finds his Spanish mistress, Violette, dead in her palace rooms. Violette, friend to Queen Anne, is married to a…
Peony in Love
Editors' choice
Enter the enticing world of the Peony Pavilion, a 16th-century Chinese opera now entwining the lives of three Hangzhou women…
The Blood of Flowers
For those of you who are cosmically tired of the endless spate of historical fiction set in Ireland/England—yes, there is…
Rashi’s Daughters, Book II: Miriam
Rashi, living in Troyes, France, in the latter half of the 11th century, was one of Judaism’s greatest scholars.Troyes at…
Silk Dreams
Set in the Byzantine Empire at the end of the first millennium, Silk Dreams is an adventurous love story between…
Belisarius, Book 1: The First Shall Be Last
Belisarius was the great general whose leadership of the Byzantine armies of the Emperor Justinian during the 6th century led…
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