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The Bay of Foxes
Dawit walks the streets of 1978 Paris, his stomach aching from hunger and his mind full of thoughts of his…
Freud’s Sister
In 1938, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa from Vienna with certain individuals of his choice. His four elderly…
Blackberry Winter
“Blackberry winter” is a term used by farmers to describe the cold snap in spring that’s needed to set the…
The Girl on the Cliff
Riley’s second novel uses a familiar but intriguing device in which secrets of long ago impact a love story today.…
The Purple Shroud: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Ah, Justinian and Theodora! Two giants of history who stood astride an empire mostly Greek that still thought of itself…
The Queen’s Lover
Count Axel von Fersen is nineteen when he meets an effervescent girl his own age at the Paris Opera in…
Elizabeth I
From the threat of the First Armada to the queen’s deathbed, this novel sweeps through the reign of Elizabeth and…
Midnight in Peking
In 1937, as the Japanese mustered to invade China, the body of an English girl, Pamela Werner, was found in…
The House of Velvet and Glass
When Sybil Allston lost her mother and sister when the Titanic sank, she assumed her mother’s habit of visiting a…
Crusade
After the death of Harold in 1066, Edgar the Atheling is proclaimed king by his Saxon supporters. When the various…
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