Susan Higginbotham
One Candle’s Light
At twelve years old, William Brewster meets a party of courtiers traveling through Scrooby and is instantly drawn to William…
Wildflowers of Terezin
In Denmark in 1943, Pastor Steffen Peterson, riding his cherished bicycle to visit a parishioner, instead ends up in the…
Here Burns My Candle
In 1745 in Edinburgh, the widowed Lady Marjory Kerr and her family await the arrival of the Jacobites, led by…
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette
Despite its gimmicky-sounding subtitle, The Bad Queen is a straightforward tale of Marie Antoinette from the time shortly before her…
New Bern: 1710 in the Carolinas
This novel, dealing with the early settlers of New Bern in the Carolinas, some of whom include the author’s ancestors,…
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
There can be few challenges more daunting for a writer than attempting to take on the voice of another writer,…
Jarrettsville
In 1869, Martha Cairnes walks up to the porch of a hotel in Jarrettsville, Maryland, where a group of ex-Union…
True Confections
In 1975, Alice Tatnall, a convicted felon and local pariah at age eighteen thanks to her having accidentally burned down…
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
In The Sisters Who Would Be Queen, de Lisle tells the story of Lady Jane Grey and her lesser-known…
My Vicksburg
When Vicksburg, Mississippi, comes under Union siege in 1863, Claire Louise Corbet’s family joins their neighbors in seeking shelter…
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