Kathryn Johnson
The Duke Is Mine
James’ most recent fairytale-inspired Regency romance features a plot that reaches beyond reimagining the classic Princess and the Pea tale.…
The Nun
In 1839, young Agata has fallen in love with wealthy Giacomo Lepre, and he with her. Unfortunately, Agata’s parents disapprove…
Apricot Jam
As one who can truthfully say she enjoyed (if that’s the right word) Nobel Prize-winner Solzhenitsyn’s soul shattering Cancer Ward…
The Tin Ticket: Heroic Journey of Australia’s Convict Women
There’s a joke: A tourist passing through Customs in Sydney is asked by the agent if he has a criminal…
The Reservoir
Based upon an old Richmond, Virginia court case, The Reservoir is a complex first novel that is a simmering blend…
I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
One doesn’t know quite what to expect when a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter of rock and country music – who is…
Fire on Dark Water
Pirates, it seems, are in! The latest Pirates of the Caribbean film has just been released, a Pirates & Wenches…
Jamrach’s Menagerie
Sometimes a novel comes along that one reads simply for the pleasure of enjoying the skill (or is it magic?)…
Prophecy
Editors' choice
Take a devious plot, a clutch of spies, a dash of counterspies, and set the story in Elizabethan England where…
To Be Queen
Few women in the High Middle Ages have proven as complex, powerful, and enigmatic as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Through sheer…
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