Viviane Crystal
The Ronin’s Mistress: A Novel of Feudal Japan
Sano Ichiro, the heroic investigator of this novel, has been demoted from chancellor to investigator because of the machinations of…
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
George and Sabine Harwood came from England to Trinidad in 1956. Young, passionately in love, they embraced the land, the…
The Queen’s Gamble
Editors' choice
Isabel Valverde, her husband, Carlos, and her son Nicolas travel to England from Peru in the New World in the…
Lady Lightfingers
Celia Law is the daughter of an Englishwoman who was hoodwinked by the man who fathered Celia and quickly deserted…
Sylvia and Aki
Aki Munemitsu’s life is about to undergo an amazing and undesirable change. For after Japan attacks the United States on…
Bohemian Girl
Young Harriet opens her story by telling the reader that her frequently gambling father “lost her on a bet.” One…
Newspaper Titan
Eleanor Josephine “Cissy” Medill Patterson was the first female editor and publisher to run the Chicago Tribune empire, which frequently…
Fairer Than Morning
You can give your soul away, but no one can take it. These are wise words spoken at a pivotal…
Daughters of the Revolution
“Disaster is genius, lurking. Be careful. Don’t die.” These are the words of Mei-Mei, the wife of Heck Hellman and…
Shakespeare’s Will
“For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,/That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” These words might…
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