Elizabeth Knowles
Miss Whittier Makes a List
In 1801, young American Quaker Hannah Whittier is an innocent victim of the Napoleonic wars when she is shipwrecked after…
A Call to Arms
The fourth in a series, this historical novel details the lives of Richard Cutler and his family as the young…
An Inquiry into Love and Death
Some years after World War I, Oxford student Jillian Leigh must leave her intensive studies and go to the seacoast…
Something Red
Editors' choice
In 13th-century England, four travelers try to cross the rugged northwestern Pennines during a harshly cold winter. The formidable but…
Twilight of Honor
Wynne Reardon is an Air Force wife whose husband, Michael, is missing in action – then declared dead – in…
On the Cold Coasts
In 15th-century Iceland, Ragna Gautadottir is innocently put in an unfortunate situation when she is fourteen. Impregnated by an English…
Come August, Come Freedom
Gabriel is born into slavery in Virginia during the American Revolution. He is raised on Prosser’s plantation and then sent…
The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose
This third mystery in an ongoing series is a sweet, nostalgic, regional puzzle set in Depression-era Darling, Alabama. The Darling…
God Carlos
God Carlos is the story of a 16th-century Spanish seaman who sails to Jamaica. He participates in the common practice…
Scoundrel! The Secret Memoirs of General James Wilkinson
Historian Keith Thompson blends facts and fiction to tell a hilarious, riveting tale of James Wilkinson and the American Revolution.…
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