18th Century
Mount Vernon Love Story
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Mary Higgins Clark, well known for her thrilling suspense novels, wrote a short novel years ago (original title: Aspire to the Heavens) based ...Read Review
Wicked Lies
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Historical romances taking place during America’s colonial era are relatively scarce. American readers seem to prefer medieval Scotland and Regency England, or ...Read Review
Three Cuts of Courage
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Nell Fraser and her brother board a ship to the New World to avoid capture after she rescues him from a Scottish prison. ...Read Review
Genesee
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Genesee van Cortlandt, the child of a runaway teen and an Iroquois warrior, was abducted back into “civilization” by her white uncle as ...Read Review
The Spider’s Touch
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The Birth of Blue Satan introduced readers to Gideon Viscount St. Mars and Mrs. Kean. In that book, Gideon–unfairly accused of murdering ...Read Review
Versailles
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Kathryn Davis makes use of a clever narrative device in this, her fifth novel: she allows Marie Antoinette’s soul to speak. This ...Read Review
Domino
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In his novel of masquerades and the blurring of gender characteristics, Ross King does an admirable job of recreating the idiom and the ...Read Review
Sea of Grey
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Royal Navy Captain Alan Lewrie has had better times than the long and trying months of 1798. His trusting wife has learned of his ...Read Review
Stitches in Air
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This beautifully imagined (if slow to unfold) tale concerns the life of Anna Maria Pertl, wife of the minor Austrian composer Leopold Mozart, ...Read Review
The Distant Beacon
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This book is the fourth volume in the authors’ Song of Acadia series. Nicole, who has been made Lady Harrow by her uncle, ...Read Review