2012
The Fighting Irish
For four hundred years Irish men have sought bounty in the armies of foreign powers. Known as the Wild Geese,…
Blue Asylum
Iris Dunleavy is a bright, independent woman whose husband decides she is not a proper, respectful wife. This means always…
The Sensorium of God
The novel opens in 1679. Despite the work of Kepler, Galileo and Tycho Brahe, the movement of the stars and…
The Truth of All Things
In Portland, Maine in 1892, detective Archie Lean investigates the brutal murder of a prostitute. The woman is laid out…
Spirit’s Princess
Spirit’s Princess is set in 3rd-century Japan, before the clans are unified. At the start of the story, Himiko, the…
Armistice
Stafford begins his novel with the line “Some men had started a war, other men went off to fight it;…
The Snow Child
This story opens in Alaska in 1920. The main characters, Mabel and Jack, are a childless middle-aged couple who have…
Slant of Light
Just before the Civil War, Turner, a writer and lecturer, founds Daybreak, a Utopian community, in the Missouri Ozarks. He,…
The Secret Keeper
A connection to the Seymour family finds Juliana St. John in the household of Kateryn Parr, Lady Latimer. Juliana, as…
The First Lady of Fleet Street
Married Englishwomen had legal control of their property by 1893 but, regardless of class or status, their earnings and actions…
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