17th Century
The Betrayal of Maggie Blair
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Maggie’s granny has never been easy to live with, but when she is condemned of witchcraft on the false evidence of a ...Read Review
Father of Lies
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Fourteen-year-old Lidda has spent much of her life feeling different from others around her in Salem village. Then, she starts to experience strange, ...Read Review
Newton and the Counterfeiter
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Isaac Newton is celebrated for his part in the English scientific revolution, but it his part in the contemporary financial revolution that is ...Read Review
Reprobates
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There is a large body of writing about the English Civil War, the events leading up to it and the Cromwellian aftermath. However, ...Read Review
Caleb’s Crossing
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Twelve-year-old Bethia Mayfield was raised in a God-fearing colonial household on what is now Martha’s Vineyard, off the Massachusetts coast. It is ...Read Review
The Scarlet Kimono
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In the spring of 1611, warlord Taro Kumashiro is warned by a seer of a red-haired, blue-eyed woman sailing to Japan. Meanwhile, in England, 17...Read Review
The Body in the Thames
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In early June, 1664, Thomas Chaloner was married in one of the fiercest summer storms in living memory. The presiding vicar seemed more concerned ...Read Review
Rebel Puritan: A Scandalous Life
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Herodias Long, a survivor of the 1636 bubonic plague epidemic that killed her father, believes that she is lucky to be alive. When she ...Read Review
The Hangman’s Daughter
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Germany in 1659 lay between the terrors of the wars of religion and the relative upswing of the Age of Reason, and this amazing ...Read Review
The Hurlyburly’s Husband
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The Marquis de Montespan and his new wife Athenais are a truly devoted love match, which is a rare thing amongst the nobility ...Read Review