Colonial America
Huskanaw
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Young John Crowe, chafing under the thumb of his brother in rural early 17th-century England, runs off to London with a “Gypsy” couple ...Read Review
The New Land
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The New Land—Book One in David O. Stewart’s trilogy, The Overstreet Saga—follows Johann and Christiane Oberstrasse from Rhineland Germany to ...Read Review
Out Front the Following Sea
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This is the story of Ruth Miner and her journey of survival in 17th-century New England. Accused of witchcraft after her parents’ deaths, ...Read Review
Cry of the Innocent: A Faith Clarke Mystery
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In 1774 Williamsburg, Virginia, Faith Clarke bears full responsibility for raising her son and running Clarke Tavern after the recent death of her husband. ...Read Review
Tangled Roots
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Tangled Roots tells the story of three young people in rural 1750s Pennsylvania. Mary Brandon, the daughter of a well-to-do farmer, rebels against ...Read Review
Tooth of the Covenant (The American Novels)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne had some less than hidden skeletons in the family closet – he was the great-great-grandson of John Hathorne, one of the foremost ...Read Review
The Pulse of His Soul
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Genealogist Smith novelizes the life of John Lothropp, a Separatist minister who broke with the Anglican Church and became a forgotten Founding Father: ...Read Review
Hour of the Witch
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How far will a woman go to escape an abusive husband? In Puritan Boston in 1662, divorces are rarely granted, but Mary Deerfield, a ...Read Review
Pieces of Eight (A Spider John Mystery 4)
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In this fourth Spider John mystery, set in 1723, “Spider John” Rush, minding his own business as ship’s carpenter, sees a fellow shipmate ...Read Review
Peacemaker
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Peacemaker is set in North America at some point prior to the arrival of European colonists, possibly in the early 1500s. Okwaho is ...Read Review