18th Century
A British Heiress in America (Revolutionary Women)
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Lady Philippa (Pippa) Worthington has stowed away on a ship bound for America near the beginning of the American Revolution. Discovered by the ...Read Review
West of the Alleghenies: A Story of Survival During the Revolutionary War
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Pennington has written an exciting novel about the adventures of an ancestor, Fergus Moorhead, a pioneer settler in western Pennsylvania between 1766 and 1778. Fergus ...Read Review
Sophia – Mother of Kings: The Finest Queen Britain Never Had
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Catherine Curzon is a royal historian who has written several books on Georgian royalty and its often-scandalous courts. Her latest foray into this ...Read Review
The Paris Affair (A Theresa Schurman Mystery)
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The year is 1783, and Viennese violinist Theresa Schurman has been asked to go to Paris to help discover who is writing and printing ...Read Review
A Revolution of Hearts
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Aristocrat Mademoiselle Dacia de Prideaux faces the challenge of her life when in April 1789, her political activist brother is murdered. She is accused ...Read Review
Napoleon’s Run (The William John Hazzard Series, Book 1)
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This is a Napoleonic spy story set against the background of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. Our hero, William Hazzard, is sent to ...Read Review
The Court of Miracles
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Alternate HistoryChildren/Young Adult
Nina is the heroine in this young adult novel set in a reimagined Paris where the French Revolution has failed and the city ...Read Review
The Golden Maid (The Smuggler’s Daughters)
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This book takes us back to the Napoleonic Wars of the 18th century together with the coastal trades of smuggling, particularly in Kent ...Read Review
Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
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Laura Bassi (1711-1778) broke new ground in many ways. She was the second woman in Europe to earn a doctorate in philosophy, the ...Read Review
The Candlelit Menagerie
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London, late 18th century. The roar of a lion calls to her, so Lillian follows the sound to a menagerie full of exquisite ...Read Review