Michael I. Shoop
When Johnny Came Marching Home
Billed as an historical mystery, Heffernan’s latest explores how three boys met the challenges of a catastrophic war and the…
The Philosopher Prince
Waters’ sequel to Cast Not the Day is set between 355 and 361 A.D., and finds the characters of Drusus…
The Deathly Portent
The second “Lady Fan Mystery” finds the intrepid Ottilia “Tillie” Fanshawe and her husband Sir Francis with their carriage broken…
The Silver Lotus
During the last decades of the 19th century, the ruggedly handsome and dashing sea trader Captain Jeremiah Macy Hammond, descended…
The Pilgrim
Young Charles Wentworth, motherless from infancy, is raised by his beloved Puritan minister father to lead a pious life in…
Three Maids for a Crown
Set during the turbulent era of Tudor England, the dramatic story of Lady Jane Grey and her sisters, Katherine and…
The Rage of Achilles
From its opening pages in which a young servant girl (who may or may not be Achilles’s mother) in the…
The Women Who Loved Jefferson
A fresh look at our nation’s third President through the women in his life. Scharff, incorporating recent research, provides a…
Rival to the Queen
Not since Victoria Holt’s My Enemy the Queen (1978) have I encountered another novel about the complex rivalry between Queen…
Notorious Royal Marriages
Sex! Intrigue! Scandal! Carroll’s newest offering chronicles well-known matrimonial pairings among European royals during the last 900 years. With a…
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