Sarah Johnson
Standing Tall
In 1884, Sheriff Ransom Starr is pushed off a balcony while on patrol. He lands, horribly injured, in the dusty…
Born To Rule
This biography chronicles the tumultuous lives of the five granddaughters of Queen Victoria who became consorts to European ruling monarchs.…
The Widow’s War
Editors' choice
As a whaler’s wife living on Cape Cod in 1761, Lyddie Berry always knew the dangers. One windy January afternoon,…
Tombstone Travesty: Allie Earp Remembers
Coleman demonstrates again why she’s one of my favorite western writers. Allie Earp was the petite, feisty, and loving wife…
The Fool’s Tale
It is 1179, in the minor Welsh kingdom of Maelienydd. Its king, Cadwallon, is killed in an ambush by English…
No Great Mischief
On Cape Breton Island, the Gaelic stronghold of Nova Scotia — a land of windswept crags and rocky shores —…
The Kingsley House
I’ve always had a soft spot for multi-generational sagas, although The Kingsley House is much more than these simple words…
The English Civil War Through the Restoration in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, 1625-1999
Freelance researcher Murph presents a descriptive list of fictional works all set between the beginning of Charles I’s reign (1625)…
The Inquisitor
Brother Bernard Peyre of Prouille, of the city of Lazet in the French Pyrenees, is surprisingly tolerant for a member…
Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
Children of a wealthy landholder in early medieval Ireland, Sorcha of Sevenwaters and her six elder brothers grow up surrounded…
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