Gilded Age
When I Cross No-Bob
Being an O’Donnell isn’t easy, but being an O’Donnell abandoned first by your Pappy and then by your Momma is…
The Blue Tattoo
The Blue Tattoo pieces together the true story of Olive Oatman, a 14-year-old girl taken captive by the Yavapai Indians…
Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
Agnes Lake Hickok must have been made of extraordinary stuff. She married circus performer Bill Lake in 1847 and made…
Brimstone
Editors' choice
Hired gunmen Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole become deputies again to “clean up” a town in the Old West. These…
Leaden Skies
It’s 1880 and Ulysses S. Grant is visiting Leadville, Colorado, with an entourage of hangers-on, among them John Quincy Adams…
In a Gilded Cage
Molly Murphy joins her unconventional neighbors Sid and Gus, as well as other Vassar graduates, at a march for women’s…
The Alchemy of Murder
Set in Paris during the Exposition of 1889, this historical crime novel takes the well-known American journalist Nellie Bly as…
Rumours
Manhattan 1899 is the setting for Rumours, the sequel to The Luxe. The name aptly reflects the tone of the…
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the “It” Girl and the Crime of the Century
Florence Evelyn Nesbit was born in the mid-1880s to a middle-class family, but her fortune took a turn upon the…
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