Ann Chamberlin
Billy Boy
Editors' choice
This is a fictionalized account inspired by the life of the true Billy Laird, the only American Civil War soldier…
Pinkerton’s Secret
This novel is told from the point of view of Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, who became the backbone of…
Women of Pemberley
Between 1848 and 1858, the characters of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and their many descendants sort themselves out. We…
Christ the Lord:The Road to Cana
The saga of Anne Rice—from lush pseudonymic S&M erotica, through vampires and witches given flesh-and-blood reality we common mortals never…
The Messiah
Author Marek Halter was born in Warsaw and at age five crawled with his family through the sewers to escape…
Touchstone
Laurie R. King gave us the brilliant recreation of Sherlock Holmes with more depth than Conan Doyle ever mustered in…
Brothers
This Toby Press thirtieth anniversary edition of the novel first published in the seventies may be appearing to take advantage…
Roman Dusk
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro continues her popular vampire series into the decadent reign of the boy-Emperor Heliogabalus as Rome totters on…
The Prophet
Hugely popular inspirational writer Francine Rivers turns her prolific pen to the prophet Amos in this short novella that forms…
The Secret Magdalene
Mariamne and her father’s ward, Salome, are raised in wealthy comfort in Roman Jerusalem. Her father is a member of…
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