Michael DiSchiavi
The Italian Woman: A Catherine DeMedici Novel
Set in 16th-century France, The Italian Woman depicts the transformation of Catherine DeMedici from a scorned and humiliated wife to…
The Académie
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Eliza Monroe, daughter of the future president of the United States, arrives at a French boarding school in 1799 ostensibly…
The Doctor’s Lady
Priscilla White, a young woman from a respectable family in Angelica, New York, in the year 1836, knows that God…
The Flower to the Painter
Alone at the age of 22 in late 19th-century Florence, with no living relatives and no dowry, the future of…
The Bride Wore Scarlet
In the opening of the novel, it is London, 1837. Anais de Rohan is at the knee of her great-grandmother,…
Cowboys Don’t Cry
Scout McBride is a young boy growing up outside of El Paso, Texas, during the Depression. Raised on a farm…
Fortune’s Son
Philip Drake is the errant son of the Earl of Hastings. He has renounced the life his father and brother…
Next to Love
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Babe, Grace, and Millie are three lifelong friends, living in South Downs. They share more than their hopes and dreams;…
22 Britannia Road
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In the aftermath of World War II, Polish native Silvana Nowak flees her homeland, devastated by war, on a ship…
The Preacher’s Bride
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Elizabeth Whitbread is a young Puritan woman living in Anglican England during the year 1659. At the opening of the…
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