Nela Leja
Adele: Wilderness Bride – a novel of New France
In the 1660s, when illegitimate orphan Adele Dupuy leaves for New France aboard a ship of similarly-disadvantaged young women, she…
A Love of Adventure
In this 19th-century romance, Druett writes with a keen sense of irony. For example, in the midst of a storm…
The Wind from Entouhonoron
The Wind from Entouhonoron is aptly titled: the wind on the lake (now named Lake Huron) plays a pivotal role…
The Year-God’s Daughter
Despite the fifth-century Greek statue on the cover, The Year-God’s Daughter takes place a thousand years earlier, in Crete. Aridela,…
Blomqvist
The eleventh century—a violent time of conquest and crusade in the name of Christianity. Through the eyes of a gotterdammerung…
The Isle of Kheria
Some readers may shy away from John Cabot’s choppy, cursory, incomplete writing style, but I recommend leaping onto its back.…
Love and Death in Paris
Katrine Bouchet and Jack Lamont are awkward teenagers when they meet briefly in Paris in 1939. Three years later, when…
A Deadly Affection
In the “orderly society” of New York in 1907, when women are not considered competent to become physicians, spinster Genevieve…
Wayfarers
I found Wayfarers a satisfying read, with rich detail, realistic characters, a complex plot, and, most of all, a consistent…
Washed in the Blood
Washed in the Blood is a saga spanning three centuries of the (as one character terms it) “racially ambiguous” descendants…
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