Colonial America
Breaking Ties
England, 1587: Rose Payne, recently escaped from a disastrous betrothal, has been accepted into the post of ship’s clerk on…
The Orenda
Historical novelists, according to Hilary Mantel, allow readers to feel what it was like to live during a particular historical…
Serpents in the Garden
Editors' choice
Serpents in the Garden by Anna Belfrage is a historical novel with a time-slip twist, the fifth in the Graham…
My Name is Resolute
Editors' choice
Turner’s engrossing novels always present hardy, intelligent women who endure challenging historical circumstances, and her fifth book is no exception.…
A Newfound Land
This is the fourth book in a time-slip series featuring Alexandra Lind and her 17th-century husband, Matthew Graham. I read…
Hannah of Santiago: The Adventures of an English Woman in a Spanish Colony
In 1626, Englishwoman Hannah Fisk accompanies her father to the New World, but the voyage ends tragically. Pirates attack their…
Spider in a Tree
The proverb says, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” but I might extend that to “cover blurb.” On reading…
Father Junipero’s Confessor
In the mid 1700s, Father Paloú, a young Franciscan friar from Mallorca, joins the exuberant and zealous Father Junípero Serra…
The Infamous Rosalie
Lisette, a Creole slave, works in the plantation house of owners better than some in the 1750s. Still, they could…
Espinas
Author Pérez Valdez has carved out a unique niche in historical fiction by writing exclusively about Spanish missionaries of the…
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