2012
Harvest of War
Leonora “Leo” Malham Brown has been through a lot in her young life. Eager for adventure, she joined the First…
Mistress of Mourning
It’s a daunting challenge: how to create a historical novel that accurately depicts a distant era without letting facts and…
Crusade
After the death of Harold in 1066, Edgar the Atheling is proclaimed king by his Saxon supporters. When the various…
Bell of the Desert
Editors' choice
In 1888, 20-year-old Gertrude Bell is presented to Queen Victoria. She is intrigued by Gertrude and invites her to tea!…
The Uninvited Guests
This is a bizarre and fantastic story, which takes place over 24 hours in Sterne – a substantial English country…
Murder by the Book
Matthew Bartholomew has returned from his escapades in York to begin the final revisions with his students at his college…
Beautiful Lies
Editors' choice
London, 1887. The country is absorbed by Queen Victoria’s Jubilee and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show, with an economic…
Stones for My Father
South Africa, 1900. Twelve-year-old Corlie Roux lives with her mother and brothers on a farm in the Transvaal. It is…
Syncopation: A Memoir of Adèle Hugo
This novel is billed as Adèle Hugo’s personal memoir, written only as Adèle could write it: scattered, sometimes tortured, passionate…
A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
Editors' choice
While Lee and McClellan spar in the Eastern theater of what has become a full-blown war, Union and Confederate forces…
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