Nanette Donohue
Defiant
Jamie Lost is a knight in service to King John, and his most recent orders are to abduct a rebellious…
Rivals in the Tudor Court
Bogdan’s second Tudor-era novel opens with an angry Thomas Howard bemoaning his imprisonment in the Tower of London, and the…
The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead
Emily and Michael, the thirteen-year-old Stewart twins, are wealthy and bored. Their widowed mother is distant and emotionally fragile, and…
Lily of the Nile
After unwittingly helping her mother commit suicide, Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony, is taken from…
Child of the Northern Spring
The story of Arthur and Guinevere has been told and retold numerous times, but this first volume of Woolley’s Guinevere…
Tatiana and Alexander: A Love Story
Eighteen-year-old Tatiana has escaped from the Soviet Union, but the fate of her husband, Alexander, is unknown. Alexander, born in…
The Wolves of Andover
Editors' choice
Kathleen Kent’s debut book, The Heretic’s Daughter, was one of the most memorable novels I read last year. Kent’s second…
Revolution
The antics of Andi Alpers and her circle of frenemies would make the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette…
Russian Winter
Nina Revskaya was one of the Bolshoi Ballet’s great dancers, a prima ballerina beyond compare during her heyday. She was…
Hearts Persuaded
In the second and final book in her Quaker and the Confederate series, Sundell continues the tale of Willa Mae…
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