Forthcoming Historical Novels for 2027
The Historical Novel Society lists a comprehensive range of titles from mainstream and small press publishers for novels set from ancient times to the mid-1970s.
Titles are listed alphabetically, by author last name, within their expected publishing month (see links below) and cover all historical fiction and all historical sub genres.
Details are pulled from publisher catalogues, websites and emails; Amazon; NetGalley; Edelweiss US & Canada Trade and BNCCatalist Canada Trade.
Information is compiled by Fiona Sheppard (US, CAN, UK, ANZ).
See our guide to forthcoming for 2026 for previous releases.
For children’s titles, see our guides to Children’s and YA historical novels out in 2027 and in 2026.
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This list is updated monthly, so plan to visit us again for more titles!
Last update: August 31, 2026
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January 2027
Sara Ackerman, The Volcano Keeper, Harper Muse (story of a woman determined to uncover the 1940s secrets of her family and the island she calls home, before they are lost forever)
Shreya Ila Anasuya, The Poison Palace, Sphere (this blend of historical and speculative fiction tells the story of Alexander’s invasion of India)
Vicki Beeby, The Diamond Murders, Hodder (London, 1920; everyone agrees detective work is unsuitable for a young lady, but this only spurs Olivia on to solve the mystery and catch the killer. New series)
A. D. Bell, The Bookbinder’s Code, St. Martin’s (sequel to The Bookbinder’s Secret, set in 1903)
Anya Bergman, Marion of Sherwood, Firefinch (part folk horror, part feminist love story, part heroine’s quest, Marian’s story features universal themes of love, nature, selfhood and destiny)
Anna Bradley, Highlander Bewitched, Kensington (book 3 of the Cairncross Castle romances)
Eleanor Buchanan, The Moonstone Sister, Headline Review (dual timeline second instalment of The Sea Stone Sisters series, combining magical realism with a family saga)
Grant Buday, Ugly John, Biblioasis (novel based on the life and times of Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada’s first prime minister, who was born in Glasgow in 1815 and died in Ottawa in 1891)
Elizabeth Camden, The Falcon’s Echo, Bethany House (a clean historical novel set at the US Navy Academy in the early 1900s)
Debra Amirault Camelin, An Acadian Odyssey, Ronsdale Press (history of the Acadians is embodied in Nathalie and Ange, as they build a new life in 1766 Nova Scotia. Sequel to Nathalie: An Acadian’ s Tale of Tragedy and Triumph)
Jamie Cass, Starfall, Hodderscape (first book in a dark academia fantasy trilogy, set in an alternate Oxford, England in 1830)
Christopher Cevasco, The Boar Foretold, Sapere (book one of The King Arthur Origins Series saga set in Ancient Britain; Cornwall, 514)
Siobhan Curham, The Secret Sewing Society, Bookouture (dual timeline in Ukraine, 1940 and Lviv, 2022, secret messages for the resistance are sewn into the dresses Zirka and Perla make in wartime)
Martin Davies, Mrs Hudson and the Kensington Clairvoyant, Allison & Busby (in foggy London of autumn, 1897, a renowned Kensington spiritualist delivers an extraordinary message)
Fiona Davis, The Jewel of Sugar Hill, Dutton (brings Eliza Jumel to life, a notorious woman from America’s infancy, who ignored social convention and achieved dizzying success))
Abigail DeWitt, Philomène, Melville House (nearing her death, Philomène dives back into her memories, from childhood in Nantes to childbirth in Paris, and questions whether she can ever truly be forgiven for the lies)
Kate Fagan, Instant Classic, Atria (novel about a young movie director who bets her career on making a film about an overlooked trailblazer in women’s basketball and in the process finds her own voice)
Betty Firth, Heartbreak for the Variety Girls, Hera (next installment of the WWII Sweethearts of the Forces series)
Therese Anne Fowler, Perilous Beautiful World, Crown (historical odyssey about three ordinary people ensnared in World War I’s chaotic aftermath)
Laura Frantz, The Saint and the Spy, Revell (draws readers into fog-draped London, where forbidden love blooms against a backdrop of spies, secrets, and high-stakes intrigue)
Carlo Gibbs, Silver’s Dunkirk, Sapere (second in a new series where the young cadet, Oscar Silver, is thrown into the battle for France)
Kiersti Giron, The Scent of Orange Blossoms, Bethany House (a Christian romance set in Orange Co., California in 1910, with forbidden romance and women’s suffrage)
Sara Herchenroether, The Murder of Harry Houdini, Little A (a broken WWI veteran joins Harry Houdini to expose fake mediums in 1920s New York)
Alan Hlad, The Jeweled Book, Kensington (intertwining multiple timelines novel draws on the true story of an ill-fated book to create a tale of obsession, artistry, mystery, and hope)
Corey M. Hopps, Freedom Summer, Urban Renaissance (set against the backdrop of the American Civil Rights Movement in 1963 comes a story about memory, identity, generational pain, and the cost of freedom)
Yasushi Inoue, trans. J. Martin Holman, The Death of a Certain Woman, Transit (stories from rural prewar Japan that speak to the moment of childhood when the world of adults is as seductive as it is forbidden)
Jeong Ji-a, trans. Anton Hur, My Father’s Liberation, HarperVia (illuminates part of Korea’s overlooked history and its partisan fighters; a poignant tale of the impact of one man’s decisions on his country, his family, and history itself)
Deborah Johnson, Washington and Leigh, Blackstone (ghost story spanning sixty years and the lives of two families, one white, one Black, who are bound to each other in more ways than one)
Kristin Judd, Witches Three, Berkley (triple timeline story of love, courage, and motherhood, as three women across history test the bonds of magic running through them all)
T. E. Kinsey, The Quarry Mystery, Thomas & Mercer (book 14 of A Lady Hardcastle Mystery series, set in 1914)
Dean Koontz, A Storm So Bright and Beautiful, Thomas & Mercer (in the 1950s, a young man decides to follow the path of a storm to find his parents and sister, who disappeared in the winds)
Sarah Lefebve, A Promise to My Daughter, One More Chapter (story about love, loss and finding happiness in the darkest of times)
Howard Linskey, Treason and Plot, Canelo (dark mystery set at the end of an era, as Shakespeare’s life and loyalties are threatened, and the seeds for Macbeth are sown)
Susan Elia MacNeal, Last Mission to Paris, Minotaur (in London, 1966, three women, covert operatives during WWII, and the daughter of a fourth, search for the long-buried truth about the betrayal behind the wartime death of a fellow agent)
J. H. Markert, Ransom Burning, Crooked Lane (inspired by true events, a mystery set in 1974 where the truth might hold the power to finally bring the corrupt town to its knees)
Faith Martin, A Study in Murder, HQ (book 4 of the Val & Arbie series set at Oxford University, 1927)
Ross Montgomery, The Shadows of Kensington Gore, William Morrow (detective duo, Stockingham & Pike, return to solve a murder in the heart of London in this funny sequel to The Murder at World’s End)
Shara Moon, The Color of Sacrifice, William Morrow (historical novel about two mothers reeling from the loss of a beloved soldier)
Adele Myers, Belle Haven Finishing School, William Morrow (an inter-generational tale about a Southern finishing school set in 1951 and 1987, inspired by the true story of a cover-up that binds two women together)
Joseph O’Connor, The City of Echoes, Europa (as World War II nears its end and Rome awaits liberation, the Choir must find a fortune in stolen Nazi money; 3rd in series about the Choir Line)
Rob Osler, The Case of the Swindled Suffragist, Kensington (Chicago, 1899; amidst the women’s rights movement, a suffragist-heiress’s desire to escape an unhappy marriage draws detective Harriet Morrow into a whirlpool of deception, lies, and murder)
S. J. Parris, Rebel’s Gambit, Hemlock (1601; when the body of a Scottish envoy washes up on the banks of the Thames, the Queen’s most powerful spymaster, Robert Cecil, is accused of arranging the murder)
Lee Patton, The Last Californians, Regal House (an exploration of desire, identity, and the truths of the human heart, set in 1970)
Helen Klein Ross, The German Sisters, Union Square (during Hitler’s rise to power two sisters find themselves on opposite sides of the war, testing the strength of familial bonds and the limits of forgiveness)
Alexis Schaitkin, Two Lives, Celadon (novel about the fate of two children sent to the English countryside to escape the onset of World War II, and the aftermath of the decisions they made there)
K. M. Schumacher, Death Witch Rising, Alcove (romantasy features a witch with the ability to see the dead and an ex-witch hunter who try to save the world)
Elif Shafak, In One Brief Moment All Eternity, Knopf (imagines the life of legendary French writer Gustave Flaubert and all the women who possessed him, particularly Madame Bovary)
Stacy Sivinski, Where Moonflowers Bloom, Atria (cozy fantasy about a wandering storyteller and a prickly botanist who may hold the key to saving Chicago’s fading magic)
Sally Smith, A Case of Fear and Favor, Raven (Gabriel Ward KC returns in the third installment of the cozy British mystery series, set in Edwardian early 20th-century)
Benjamin Taylor, The Cloud of Knowing, Turtle Point (composer Rafael Bogenschine killed himself at the height of his fame in 1967; his 90-year-old wife Francie finally decides to cooperate with a biographer)
Jan Turano, A Dash of Decorum, Bethany House (historical Gilded Age novel is an opposites-attract rom-com packed with mistaken identity, a fake relationship, and slow-burn romance)
Marie Tureaud, Beneath, It Sleeps, Kensington (Gothic novel set in 18th century Ireland, where a young woman on the run from her past goes undercover within the infamous Hellfire Club)
Valerie Wilson Wesley, Death Waits at the Hotel Olga, Kensington (Harlem Renaissance-set mystery featuring an educated Black woman and the Prohibition-era gangsters and rivals she must confront)
February 2027
Victoria Amelina, trans. Dominique Hoffman, The Apartment on Lepky Street, Fontana (through the voice of Dom the dog, Lviv’s history as a Polish and Jewish metropolis, its Holocaust history, and its transformations over the 20th century are given a new perspective)
Dee Andrews, The Fevered World, She Writes (story of a father and daughter on the medical front of the Spanish Flu and World War I, each fighting the same invisible enemy from opposite sides of the world)
Libby Ashworth, The Sewing Class Girl, Canelo (saga based around the cotton crisis, unemployment and people living on relief)
Abigail Avis, Wet Ink, Dutton (London, 1969; a story of desire and ambition in which Mitzy Barlow builds a Tupperware empire by slipping erotic short stories in with her orders, accidentally sparking a feminist revolution in her London suburb)
Ronald H. Balson, Last Train from Budapest, St. Martin’s (1944; suspenseful tale of courage, brotherhood, and the fight for a future beyond fear; inspired by real historical heroes with a determination to do good and overcome evil)
Mark Barber, The Order, Zmok Books (when two Holy Order knights return from a failed crusade, they find themselves dragged into a new war against an even deadlier foe)
Laura Barrow, Where the Wind Carries, Lake Union (a young woman’s journey through grief and resilience after WWI when the loss of her son forces her to start over)
Rick Bleiweiss, The Cupid Killer and Other Murderers, Blackstone (mystery, romance, political upheaval, and danger collide in this new addition to the Pignon Scorbion series, set in 1910)
Chelsea Bobulski, A Match for the Marquess, Haven (opposites-attract romance set in Edwardian-era England)
Angelita Bradney, The Butterfly Beats Its Wings, Akan Books (literary fiction debut about family love and long hidden secrets, set in dual timelines of 1972 and 2020s)
Theresa Donovan Brown, Bay Lands, She Writes (after inheriting a rancho in 1874, a young Californian woman takes on the slave traffickers and robber barons of Gilded Age San Francisco)
Kristy Cambron, The Making of a Mad Woman, Thomas Nelson (from the Golden Age of advertising to today, a story of reinvention, family, and the courage it takes for women of any generation to claim the life they want)
Michael Cary, Monument, Lyons Press (novels follows a young drifter’s ascent from prairie tragedy to the dark rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany)
Crystal Caudill, Painted in Suspicion, Kregel (inspirational story in which a woman forges her own way forward in business in Gilded Age Cincinnati, to help other women support themselves)
Joshua Cohen, Dead Herzls, Penguin (an epic of decline and fall, about the family of Theodor Herzl)
Mary Connealy, Heart of an Outlaw, Bethany House (Rocky Mountain Marshals #3 in which Stella’s outlaw-past makes her the perfect guide to help US Marshals capture her dangerous uncle)
Natashia Deón, Birds of War, Counterpoint (a young woman is forced to confront the cost of freedom and her own self-actualization in the midst of war)
Caitlin Devlin, The Prettiest People, Lake Union (dual timeline tale explores the impossible choices women faced in an era when loyalty could be as dangerous as betrayal)
Lucy Diamond, The Storyteller’s Secret, Headline Review (a witty tale of sisterhood that spans a century; set in 1929, 1940s and present day)
Melanie Dickerson, A Proposal Reconsidered, Bethany House (sweet Regency romance comes with second chances and revived dreams)
Anne Driscoll, The Emerald Coat She Wears, She Writes (Irish historical mystery, inspired by a real-life 17th-century feud, in which a modern-day woman uncovers dangerous ancestral secrets)
Madeleine Dunnigan, Jean, W. W. Norton (narrative of loss and escape distilled into the story of adolescent love at a boarding school in the 1970s)
Percival Everett, Serious Music, Doubleday (darkly comic journey of a Black musician making his way from the trenches of the Somme to the jazz clubs of Harlem…)
Charles B. Fancher, The Pinewoods Legacy, Blackstone (paints a portrait of small-town love, loss, and redemption in the Jim Crow Alabama, 1905; companion novel to Red Clay)
Donna B. Gawell, Rachelle’s Hidden Star, Histria (a simple DNA test unearths a grandmother’s hidden Jewish past in WWII Poland)
Elizabeth Harris, Wife & Wife, William Morrow (a story of love, discovery, and defiance told by two women who meet as housewives in the 1950s)
Melanie Hudson, The Key Collector, One More Chapter (Oxford, 1944; in an Oxford bookshop, Nancy Baker finds a book with a hidden list of stolen keys, each one ticked off, except the last)
Pam Jenoff, The Society of Forgotten Wives, Park Row (New York, 1919; story of missing husbands, buried secrets, and the women who come together to reclaim their power)
Neil Christian Johannsen, Near the Wild Heart, Lake Union (historical novel inspired by true events, where a girl develops a bond with a freedom-loving horse marooned on Alaska’s remote Katmai Coast)
Julia Keller, Cold Dark Deep, Mysterious Press (when a child’s body is discovered in tumultuous 18th-century London, a struggling writer dares to become an unlikely force for social justice)
Jess Kidd, Little Spark, Atria (19th-century novel in which lifelike machines walk, old bones lie buried beneath the marsh grass, and a young orphan born with power confronts the truth of her origins)
Heather Moore, Joseph of Egypt, Shadow Mountain (in a biblical reimagining of Joseph’s rise from slavery to power and Asenath’s journey to give her heart, the novel blends faith, love, political intrigue, and redemption)
Harini Nagendra, Murder in the Crocodile’s Lair, Pegasus (Kaveri Murthy is enjoying herself in Mysore, India, until an old friend from Bangalore turns up dead)
F. H. Petford, A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Untimely Death, Hodder & Stoughton (third instalment in the Alma Timperley Mystery series of quirky paranormal cosy crime mysteries)
Anna Polonyi, Tomorrow We’ll Be Prey, Ecco (a dual timeline feminist meditation on the stories we inherit and the monsters we create)
Francine Rivers, The Woman Between, Tyndale (historical Western, set in 1875, about a young woman faced with an impossible choice)
Ronald Lee Robertson, Goliath, Scribner (a fateful feud simmers between a preacher and his protégé in this retelling of David and Goliath, set on a family farm in the American South, against the backdrop of the Great Migration)
Hannah Rothschild, Masterpiece, Hutchinson Heineman (story of four people whose lives are bound together by a single work of art; settings 1470, 1922, 1944 and 2014)
Jill Eileen Smith, The Table of Mercy, Revell (retelling the little-known story of the Syrophoenician woman from the New Testament who was forever changed by an encounter with Jesus)
Alice Stephens, The Twain, Regal House (in Japan, friends Thomas and Agnes are shunned as mixed heritage and marked as enemies of the state)
Sarah Sundin, The Refuge of Le Chambon, Revell (1942; a historical romance set in France, with a marriage of convenience and Jewish refugees)
Katherine Tozer, The Art of Poison, Firefinch (crime story about a scandalous murder trial of socialite Madeleine Hamilton Smith in mid-19th-century Glasgow)
Emilie Tumulty, Cuts of the Heart, Blank Slate (France, 1917; an infectious disease specialist is transferred from the front, to a field hospital where she hopes her work will aid her in a custody suit for her son)
Friday Turner, Murder at Midwinter, Thomas & Mercer (cosy mystery set in a gothic abbey in Yorkshire, December 1941)
Johanna van Veen, The Literary Remains of Cornelia Feyen, Bloomsbury (lighthearted epistolary novel that intertwines Dutch faerie folklore with a sapphic love story)
Clare Whitfield, The Last Handmaid, Head of Zeus-Aries (gothic historical thriller inspired by the alleged most prolific female serial killer – set in 1604 Hungary)
Clare Willis, The Inheritance, Hodder Paperbacks (inspirational WWII historical novel of love, war, friendship and forgiveness)
Karen Witemeyer, Wooing the Wallflower, Bethany House (single-parent Western romance with a bookish heroine and a brooding cowboy hero)
Evie Woods, The Heirloom, HarperCollins (on the wild coast of Ireland an ancient heirloom helps two people unlock secrets of their past as they discover that their story began four centuries ago)
March 2027
Michael Arnold, The Hemlock Throne, Canelo (3rd in the Savage Isle series, set as the Celtic resistance is on the verge of breaking)
Heesung Baek, Where the Light Leads, Pegasus (novel about an architect who helps a dying man uncover the family secrets embedded in the walls of a Parisian mansion)
Ellen Barker, Lulu in the Loop, She Writes (set in Saint Louis in an era of social upheaval, novel takes a look at friendship, community, and figuring out adulthood)
Vicki Beeby, A Near Miss for the Flying Girls, Canelo (orphan Holly Hardwick befriends10-year-old Sam who helps put out fires during the Blitz)
Marie Benedict, The Witch of Wall Street, St. Martin’s (the story of Hetty Green, a self-made woman and the richest woman of the Gilded Age)
Sian Ann Bessey, Within the Walls of Camelot, Shadow Mountain (when a modern-day archaeologist is pulled into the world of King Arthur, he’s forced to trade logic for legend—crafting the Round Table and navigating courtly danger)
Michael Bible, The Terrible, Dalkey Archive (Russian past and American present blur through the delusional confession of a man claiming to be Ivan the Terrible’s brother)
Andrew Boden, When We Were Ashes, Goose Lane (set against the backdrop of WWII, Rainor is led on an illuminating journey to learn the truth about his past and the even more extraordinary truth about his present)
Rhys Bowen, Clare Broyles, A Whiff of Scandal, Minotaur (Molly Murphy returns with her first investigation under her own detective agency)
F. L. Bullard, Hunting with Mark, Histria (based on true story, novel bridges the power corridors of 1920s Tammany Hall, capturing the post-WWI reality of the veterans who built the modern American century)
KJ Charles, The League of Lost Souls, Tor (gothic fantasy set in the 19th to early 20th-century England)
Christina Courtenay, The Mists of Time, HQ (a Viking enemies to lovers dual timeline romance)
Nicole Cuffy, They Will Know Our Names, One World (two friends, bound by music but separated by the Jim Crow-era color line, endure the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of life)
Thomas O. Davenport, O’Malley’s Grail, Rare Bird (blending historical realism with psychological depth, WWII novel explores trauma, faith, memory, and the emotional wreckage left behind by conflict)
Caitlin Devlin, The Picture House Girl, Lake Union (in present day, Andie unravels the story of how her ancestor, make-up artist Winnie Ferris, ended up on trial for stealing from silent film star Eula Hartwin)
Sara DiVello, The Ace of Spades, Blackstone (when a celebrity bad boy is murdered in Jazz Age New York, a reporter, a detective, and a wife navigate the dangerous gap between truth and power)
Melanie Dobson, The Sister Society, Kensington (uncovers the origins of the Oneida silverware empire through a covert sisterhood of women bound by forbidden books, dangerous devotion, and the fight to reclaim their voices)
A. B. Dozier, Honor, Blair (unravels the murder of a young woman within the world of organized crime in 1920s Baltimore)
Rachel Louise Driscoll, The Spider and the Lily, Harvill (gothic mystery sees Esther, a young painter, uncover the hidden story behind a famous Arthurian legend)
Jim Eldridge, Murder at the Vatican, Allison & Busby (the renowned detectives Daniel and Abigail Wilson are asked to investigate a suspected assassination attempt from within the Vatican’s walls)
Marianne Fons, The Dressmaker of Winterset, Union Square (reimagines The Scarlet Letter centering Hester’s dressmaking skills and her determination to provide a good life for daughter Pearl)
Danielle R. Graham, The Ladybird of Vienna, One More Chapter (brings to life the hidden networks of resistance, and the neurodivergent individuals targeted by Nazi eugenics policies)
Genevieve Graham, Island of Orphans, Simon & Schuster (novel about a young woman’s promise to look after two orphaned children aboard an Irish famine ship quarantined in 1847 Quebec, and her efforts to honour that promise when they are separated)
Christopher Hadley, The One and Only Tree, William Collins (travels back and forth along the east-west routes forged by crusaders, pilgrims and merchants, through seven millennia of real and imagined time)
June Harrington, Merely a Matter of Time, Wildthorn (slow-burn love story between two gifted arcane scientists who fall back in time only to fall for each other)
Olivia Hawker, Riddle Song, Lake Union (portrait of one family’s fate, swept up in the turmoil of life in post–World War I America)
Joe Hill, Hunger, Headline (Boston, 1776; the dead have been speaking to Captain Amos Crowe since the Battle of Bunker Hill, and now he must track down a witch hidden deep behind enemy lines)
Samantha Lee Howe, Bride in Funeral Clothing, No Exit (former army mechanic Mel Greenway investigates the abduction of bride-to-be Lorelie Courtney at the crumbling Avonby estate in post-war Britain)
Amy Haywood Hughes, Isle of Home Summer, She Writes (fictional glimpse into the childhood and heart of Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low—the visionary optimist who challenged social norms in 1912)
Isabel Ibañez, Witch Dance, Saturday Books (historical fantasy where forbidden magic, a deadly mystery, and a slow-burn romance collide in 1518 Renaissance Strasbourg)
Tara Johnson, A Risky Pursuit, Bethany House (new historical Western romance series, where Emma Leigh talks her way into a dangerous Pinkerton assignment to help capture notorious outlaw Jesse James)
Alka Joshi, Daughters of the Pink City, Park Row (coming-of-age novel about family secrets, rebellion, and the inheritance of women’s resilience)
Stephanie Kallos, Monarch’s Row, Avid Reader Press (a loose retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac set in the UK before, during, and after World War I, following Enid Asquith’s isolated childhood and a wartime love triangle)
Jane Kirkpatrick, Beyond the Breaking Waves, Revell (novel highlights the difficulty of pioneer life and the hope found in faith, community, and new beginnings)
Terri Lewis, Bodies in Arabesque, She Writes (1970s coming-of-age story of two ballerinas whose choices after getting pregnant—one before Roe v. Wade and one after—affect their friendship, careers, and life paths)
Norman Lock, The Old Man and the Heath, Belleview Literary Press (a reimagined novel of King Lear, resurrected from the heath to bear witness at time’s end, and six stories that present the Bard’s bit characters anew)
Trish B. MacEnulty, The Woman with the Wicked Face, Histria (biographical novel captures the birth of the Hollywood studio system and the original on-screen vamp, Theda Bara, who defined the early silent film era)
Anna Maschik, trans. Imogen Taylor, Spoil the Harvest, Avid Reader (magical realism epic tells the story of a rural farming family living on the edge of the German empire through the eyes of its final descendant)
Mollie McNeil, The Curve of Light, She Writes (novel about a young woman who flees her rural home for San Francisco in 1919, bent on unearthing a guarded family secret)
Emily Mitchell, Far Ocean, Black Lawrence Press (tells the story of 18th-century botanist and explorer Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe)
Syd Moore, The Final Act of Daphne Devine, Magpie (Daphne and one-time lover Jack have been sent to deliver The Grimoire, a centuries-old book filled with mysticism and spells, to a prominent SS officer)
Duncan Murrell, The Last Lilies of Giverny, Harper Select (Claude Monet captured light on the canvas in a way that changed art forever, but his own life holds dark secrets in this dual timeline novel set in 1914 and 1866)
Geraldine Norman, Learning to Drink What Came After, Allison & Busby (follows Geraldine in the drinking dens of Soho alongside artists and criminals, during the last days (and nights) of 1970s Fleet Street to the glamour of post-glasnost Saint Petersburg)
Anne O’Brien, The Rival Queen, Orion (tells of one of England’s most celebrated monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, and how she changed the course of the nation’s history)
Tracie Peterson, What Time is Given, Bethany House (Christian historical western frontier novel set in a Pacific Northwest Washington coal mining small town)
Terrie Petree & Hollands, After the Wolf, Arcade (through faith, art and madness, debut taps into the deepest recesses of the search for belief and belonging in the religious embers of an evolving nation)
Kate Pierce, Weak Flesh, Little, Brown (darkly funny debut about a young woman in 18th century Provence who joins the nunnery in an attempt to reform her family’s reputation)
Elwood Reid, The Kettle, Counterpoint (tale of the old west and family secrets, a document of violence and history and human nature)
Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Last Days of Vic & Coco, Atria (set in the 1970s world of long desert highways, seedy motels, and dive bars, the story of two women living by their wits and making their own rules)
Rachel Rose, The Scarlet Daughter, Blackstone (illegitimate daughter, at the center of The Scarlet Letter, is a heroine who defies her station to become a portraitist for nobility and an avenger of wronged women)
John Sayles, Gods of Gotham, Melville House (Cold War, 1951 New York; features real-life figures in a story of political corruption, the rise of television, fixed college basketball games and beginnings of McCarthyism)
Katharine Schellman, Peril in the Night, Crooked Lane (sixth installment of mystery series where desperate parents turn to widow sleuth Lily Adler—but what she uncovers leaves them wishing they hadn’t)
Joachim Schmidt, trans. Jamie Lee Searle, Ósmann, Ferryman of the North, Bitter Lemon Press (historical fiction inspired by the true life of Jón Magnússon Ósmann (1862–1914), a legendary ferryman from northern Iceland)
Sharma Shields, Duckling, Henry Holt (retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s life and literary lineage is a testament to how imagination lives on even after the story has ended)
Dana Stabenow, The Iron Trail, Head of Zeus-Aries (undercover Pinkerton agent Clare Wright, who’s still in Fred Harvey’s employ, must find a killer in this mystery set in a bustling US frontier town during the 1890s)
Andrew Taylor, Treason, Hemlock Press (1688; Marwood’s investigation leads him to uncover a deadly and treasonous conspiracy, one that threatens the crown and the stability of the nation. Cat and Marwood series)
Charles Todd, A Deadly Cost, Mysterious Press (in 14th installment of the Bess Crawford mystery series, the wartime nurse investigates the disappearance of an old friend)
Sharon Virts, Swamp of Lies, Flashpoint (1820s Regency America book three in Fields of Honor series, the McCarty brothers face old flames and new fires, risking their reputations and their lives)
Rose Warner, The Teacher’s Secret, Canelo (when a new group of injured servicemen arrive at the village hospital, Nell discovers amongst them a man from her past, one she was hoping not to meet again)
Amanda Wen, Remnants of a Lost Duet, Kregel (two journalist in 1967 and present day, investigate the history of a bridge where a baby disappeared in early 1940s)
Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Portrait, Fontana (between 1898 and his death in 1916, Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi painted many pictures of his wife, Ida, seen only from the back – this is her story)
Evan Calder Williams, The Losing Team, Riverhead (New York, 1867; suspenseful and subversive novel about a crime family’s struggle for power in a new American era)
Jacqueline Winspear, Charlie Bright, Soho (San Francisco, 1947; novel shines the spotlight on a rapidly changing America and the earliest glimmers of Silicon Valley, in a tale of a heroine demanding, and finding, justice)
Jaime Jo Wright, What the Forest Hides, Bethany House (dual timeline gothic mystery ghost story based on the 1936 disappearance of a little girl into the ominous woods)
April 2027
Anita Abriel, The Graduates, Blackstone (spotlights three protagonists at the pinnacle of each decade following their college graduation—through the 60s, 70s, and 80s)
Suzanne Allain, A Most Unfortunate Murder, Thomas Nelson (with Bow Street indifferent to the death of a penniless single woman, Clarissa takes matters into her own capable hands in Regency times)
Sophie Austin, The Midnight Letters, HarperCollins (romantic novel of heartache and hope, set in London 1900 where Vivian Grey works as the agony aunt for her father’s newspaper)
Nick Beckett, The Book of Martyrs, Pegasus (1595; a former thief and a famed astrologist are engulfed by persecution and murder during England’s colourful Tudor Golden Age)
A. K. Blakemore, Doom Painting, Scribner (1381; narrative roves across England during the Peasants’ revolt and gives birth to its leader Wat Tyler, an opportunistic and mercurial rogue whose morality is birthed by the cause)
Maren Chase, We Have Hours Left ‘til Morning, Bloomsbury Archer (romantic speculative novel about two time-travel agents who fall in love after meeting again and again …… and again)
Adrienne Chinn, The Sirens of War, One More Chapter (1939-1951; fourth and final book in series follows the three Fry sisters and their mother’s lives in England, France, Italy and Egypt during WWII)
Séverine Cressan, trans. Sam Taylor, The Wet Nurse, Little, Brown/Brazen (feminist debut thriller about the lives of 18th-century village women; the domination of men over their bodies and their tooth and nail fight for survival)
Kay Peterson Daly, Wilton House, Regal House (17th-century poet Lady Mary Wroth finds scandal and independence through her writing and, four centuries later, inspires a young literary scholar to declare her own independence)
Liz Denchfield, The Spymaster’s Wife, Bedford Square (nineteen-year-old new wife Elizabeth finds her ‘diplomat’ husband’s espionage career affects every aspect of their life when they are posted to Cyprus in 1968)
Joanne Bischof DeWitt, A Love Beyond Persuasion, Tyndale (a young woman wrestles with the pain of her past and her hopes for the future in this retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, in Ohio 1899)
Gordon Doherty, The Eagle & the Wolf, HarperCollins (Age of Attila series—as Hun hordes and Germanic tribes maraud through Imperial lands, Attila the Hun and General Flavius Aetius find their fortunes entangled with the chaos)
Carol Drinkwater, The Girl From Marseille, Corvus (a novel of love, freedom and community set in Provence, 1938)
María Dueñas, trans. Simon Bruni, If One Day We Return, Amazon Crossing (new English translation of a historical saga about an immigrant’s rags-to-riches journey as she struggles to anchor herself in foreign land across three decades)
Claudia Durastanti, trans. Jamie Richards, Missitalia, S&S Summit (three women in three moments in time, connected across ancient and future worlds in this feminist saga, western, and speculative fiction mix)
Sean Ferrell, In the Fields We Thirst, Gallery (historical horror novel set during the devastation of World War I, where the terrors of the battlefield reveal something far worse than enemy fire across the dark, frozen trenches)
Elizabeth Ferris, Charlotte, William Morrow (literary debut inspired by a year in the life of Charlotte Brontë and the writing of Jane Eyre)
Elinor Florence, Grasslands, Simon & Schuster (set in the western Canadian wilderness, story of two sisters; one marries, goes to Canada and disappears – the other follows her from London to the NW Territories)
Peter K. Gikandi, Goma, S&S/Saga (Mombasa, 1898; based on a true story, debut brims with history and magic in a time and place where Christians, Hindus, Muslims, and Africans once collided)
Michelle Griep, The Winds of Stormhaven, Bethany House (historical romance threaded with mystery and peril and set on the rugged coast of England in 1877)
Allan Gurganus, The Erotic History of a Country Baptist Church, Liveright (maps the trajectory of a church in Falls, North Carolina, from 1889 to its 1970s collapse, told by three preachers and their parishioners, who are as fixated on sex as on prayer)
Stacey Halls, The Sitting Tenant, Bonnier (when Celia and Gregory Ringrose buy their first home in 1960, the house comes with a tenant who seems normal, keeps herself to herself, and causes no trouble)
Aaron Hamburger, The Shiva Bandit, Harper Perennial (during World War II, a Jewish mother and her two daughters flee from Nazi-occupied Poland to Uzbekistan, in this tale of resilience despite impossible odds)
Emilia Hart, The Enigmas, St. Martin’s (novel about a woman who must turn back time to save her sister’s life, set against the backdrop of wartime Britain; set in London 1940 and 1915)
Patti Callahan Henry, Heart of the Wild, Atria (novel takes readers into the woods where the lives of two teenage girls, one lost and one hiding, will forever change)
Lucy Holland, The Last Verse of the Harp Lord, Head of Zeus-AdAstra (fantasy novel set in Celtic Britain and based on traditional Welsh and Celtic myths and history)
Jane Kirkpatrick, Beyond the Breaking Waves, Revell (Christian fiction of pioneer life, faith, friendship and community set on the Oregon coast)
Laura Lathrop, The Plum Queen, Random House (debut about a widow who is ready to reveal a past she’s never spoken of, spanning 20th-century from northern California to post-war Manhattan)
Wen-yi Lee, Where Rivers Made the Gods, Tor (Singapore, 1975; a city of warring gangs, blazing fire, and fading gods in this fantasy sequel to When They Burned the Butterfly)
Gay Marris, Fresh Blood on the Avenue, Bedford Square (residents of suburban Atbara Avenue enter 1970 with more dark and twisted goings-on behind closed doors in this dryly funny follow up to A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder)
Ruta Mukerji, The Scalpel’s Edge, Simon & Schuster (Dr. Lydia Weston undertakes to clear the name of a woman surgeon embroiled in a medical scandal, set against the backdrop of the 1876 World’s Fair)
Sheila Myers, Shorelines, Islandport (inspired by Rachel Carson, novel set in 1963, follows a young Maine islander whose dreams of becoming a scientist are upended by love, sacrifice, and a decades old secret)
Milena Palminteri, Like the Bitter Orange, 37 Ink (spanning four decades, from the rise of fascism to the first stirrings of women’s independence, explored in a textured portrait of a changing Sicily)
Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith, The Long Homecoming, Severn River (novel of duty, doubt, and the uneasy dawn of the Cold War is a testament to the soldiers who won one war—and were asked to fight another in the shadows)
Danny Ramadan, A Saltwater Requiem, Counterpoint (portrayal of love, war, and transformation told through the dissolution of one Syrian family, culminating in their quest to reach the New World on the doomed RMS Titanic)
Jennifer Robson, The Timefarers, William Morrow (magical novel featuring a secret society of time travelers, an Oxford student with extraordinary powers, and the discovery of a lifetime)
Abigail Savitch-Lew, Livonia Chow Mein, Simon & Schuster (story of family history and political upheaval centered around a Chinese family-owned restaurant in Brooklyn, and its impact on Jewish and Black residents over the course of a century)
Michelle Shocklee, The Poet of Moonshine Hill, Tyndale (dual timeline Southern novel about one woman torn between loyalty and the law and another seeking answers about a Depression-era arrest warrant; set in 1933 and 1983)
Mona Tewar, Before I Bow, Boundless Press (conclusion to historical fantasy of 1500s South India; an exploration of allegiances of the heart and the sacrifices we make to uphold our fiercest beliefs)
Marisel Vera, The Girls from Humboldt Park, Liveright (set in 1970s Chicago, a radiant story of personal and political revolution within a tight-knit Puerto Rican community)
Daisy Wood, A Distant Shore, Avon (a tale of secrets and sacrifice set in England and Ireland, 1915)
Lin Zhe, trans. George A. Fowler, Born of the Storm, Tuttle (spanning the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution and China’s economic boom, novel follows three lives transformed by a nation in pursuit of prosperity)
May 2027
Joy Callaway, The Last Role of Luella Vining, Harper Muse (June 1956; reclusive superstar Luella Vining announces she’ll appear on a press tour for her new film, the only problem is that Luella’s dead)
Reeta Chakrabarti, An Impossible Woman, HarperCollins (Paris, 1930; a novel about the price of genius, the hunger of ambition, and what it costs a woman to live entirely on her own terms)
Jennifer Galvão, Maria, Maria, Hutchinson Heinemann (debut novel is a story of hope and endurance in which the deepest bonds form not between lovers, but rivals)
Helen Gaskell, The Summer Season, HQ (romance in which a Regency debutante switches places through time with a failed travel writer in 2025)
Kate Heartfield, The Realm Invisible, HarperVoyager (historical fantasy of secret agents, sorcerers, and the Spanish armada set in the court of Queen Elizabeth I)
Ben Miller, Unti. Richard Hannay, HarperCollins (battle-hardened Hannay finds himself entangled in a scheme to steal a priceless Michelangelo from under the Kaiser’s nose and replace it with a fake)
Monica Sanz, Of Saints and Monsters, Erewhon (a historical fantasy rooted in Puerto Rican history and culture that examines colonial power, faith, and resistance through monsters and sisterhood)
A. L. Sowards, The Sign of the Kestrel, Shadow Mountain (Casablanca, 1942; espionage thriller merges a World War II setting with cross-genre romance)
Mary-Lou Stephens, The Hobart Hotel, HQ Fiction AU (dual timeline story of glamour, intrigue and two women who will gamble their lives to survive)
Julian Stockwin, Injured Honour, Hodder & Stoughton (book one in the Harry Wylde naval series, set in 1791, where one officer must claw his way back from disgrace to redemption)
Johnny Teague, The Lost Diary of Joan of Arc, Histria (a telling of the journey of the church’s true heroine)
Alison Weir, The Pretender’s Wife, Headline Review (tale of love, ambition, tragedy about the man who swears he is Richard Plantagenet – the young prince thought to have been murdered in the Tower twelve years earlier)
Daisy Wood, A Distant Shore, Avon (a 1915 journey from New York to Liverpool, from the heights of society to the third-class decks of a doomed ship)
June 2027
Feurat Alani, trans. Adriana Hunter, The Sky Is Too Vast, Other Press (novel retraces the steps of Adel, a pilot sent by the Air Force to be trained in the USSR, leading up to his disappearance in 1974, between Baghdad and Krasnodar)
Sophie Benoit, The Distinct Pleasure of Loathing You, Zando Slow Burn (a daring woman must share her home with a grumpy captain; Bancroft Sisters Regency Romance, Book 2)
Isabel Davies, The Miracles, HarperCollins/St. Martin’s (debut novel about belief, truth and courage in extraordinary times, set during WWII)
Pepsi Demacque-Crockett, Sing Me Home, HarperCollins (story of two sisters, one city and the secrets that shape them)
Soraya Lane, The Lost Moonstone, Macmillan (a saga of family legacy set in 1950s Monaco and present day, London)
Gordon Doherty with Graham McTavish, Blood of the Highlands, HarperCollins (debut adventure featuring the MacLean clan, in 1642 Scotland)
Callie Rowland, Gate of Nightmares, 47North (book two in the Underworld Myths series after Fields of Asphodel)
Olga Wojtas, Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Parcel of Rogues, Saraband (cosy time-traveling murder mystery series set in 1788 Edinburgh)
July 2027
Anthony Riches, Warriors of Troy, Hodder & Stoughton (follow-up to Swords of Troy, a new take on the legend of the Trojan War)
August 2027
Robert Knott, Opium Rose, Putnam (lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch must quell a brewing showdown in the early 1880s)
Craig Shreve, The Maroon King, Counterpoint/S&S Canada (a tale of rebellion, survival and the birth of freedom amid 16th-century Spanish Colonialism)
September 2027
Ken Follett, The Deep and Secret Things, Grand Central/ Quercus (the rise and fall of a young man and his legacy, set against the backdrop of the Victorian era, at a time of social and industrial change)
