Susan Higginbotham
Cactus Flower
When Eulalie Gibb travels from Chicago to the New Mexico Territory in the 1890s to take a job as a…
Mary
Committed to the Bellevue Place Sanitarium by her eldest son in 1875, Mary Todd Lincoln begins to write the story…
Gatsby’s Girl
In 1915, F. Scott Fitzgerald met a society girl, Ginevra King, with whom he had a brief romance before she…
The Last Queen
This is the story of Juana “the Mad” of Castile, daughter to Isabel and Fernando and sister to Catherine of…
Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour
Young Jane Seymour is stunned when she overhears her parents discussing her future: as they consider Jane too plain to…
Counting on Grace
Living in a Vermont mill town in 1910, 12-year-old Grace expects to join her mother and older sister at…
I Stay Near You : One Story in Three
I Stay Near You, a reissue of a 1997 paperback, is a three-generation saga set in a small upstate…
After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
The title says it all here. As Elizabeth I’s health declines, the childless queen refuses to entertain any talk of…
Penelope Bailey Takes The Stage
The back cover describes this novel, dauntingly, as being “about the struggle of 19th-century women for self-determination.” Fortunately, the book…
A Lady Rides High
When Frances Pierce, the daughter of a country baronet of modest means, impetuously places herself between Anne Boleyn and a…
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