2012
Lyon’s Bride: The Chattan Curse
What is you were obliged to marry to carry on your family name, but cursed to die if you fell…
Garden of Madness
This book is billed as Christian and historical. It is neither. There is not a single Christian in it, and…
Unholy Night
Balthazar, a notorious thief and murderer, escapes Herod’s prison along with two other criminals disguised as “wise men.” In their…
All Our Worldly Goods: A Novel of Love Between the Wars
Russian-born writer Irène Némirovsky, who escaped the Communists only to be killed by the Nazis for her Jewish heritage, was…
Just Send Me Word
Lev and Sveta meet in 1935 in the Physics program at Moscow University, but the German invasion in the summer…
Rome’s Executioner: Vespasian II
Rome’s Executioner, set in AD 30, is the second novel in a saga narrating the rise of Vespasian in the…
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
They called it the “Great Game,” the game played by imperialist nations competing for lucrative trade and commercial privileges in…
The Seventh Gate
Editors' choice
Sophie Riedesel is a young Christian German girl growing up in Berlin in the 1930s. Her father is a Communist…
Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Isabella Robinson was a free-spirited young woman forced into a cold second marriage with an unpleasant, unfaithful man, Henry Robinson.…
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth and the Wars of Religion
When Elizabeth I came to the throne, it was to reign over a country deeply divided by religion and still…
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