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Adventure

A Land Divided: The Blood of Kings, Book 1

By K. M. Ashman - Published 2015

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Set during the reign of William the Conqueror, A Land Divided details the unrest in Wales and the Welsh Marches. English lords behind ...Read Review

Quest for the True Cross

By Tony McMahon - Published 2015

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Adventure

Sir William de Mandeville is a Templar Knight sent home from the Holy Land in disgrace as he has been subject to ‘demons’ ...Read Review

Captain in Calico

By George MacDonald Fraser - Published 2015

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Adventure Nautical

Readers know the late George MacDonald Fraser as the author of the Flashman series, that wickedly funny long-term diatribe on the grim costs ...Read Review

The Betrayal Path

By Brian Van Norman - Published 2012

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Adventure

“Allan Nashe, an English spy, is sent to Quebec to discover the state of French defenses during the Seven Years’ War. But within ...Read Review

Mayhem at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West

By Fedora Amis - Published 2016

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Adventure Mystery/Crime Western

Jemima McBustle is a reporter for the St. Louis Illuminator, and she’s on her way to Sedalia, Missouri to cover Buffalo Bill ...Read Review

Zenobia: Challenging a Legend

By Russ Wallace - Published 2015

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Adventure

“Complicating Zenobia’s life is a budding romance with her brilliant and charismatic instructor. The challenge: he is the scholar, she the warrior. ...Read Review

The Devil’s Assassin

By Paul Fraser Collard - Published 2015

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Adventure Military

The place is Bombay, the year 1857; the man is Jack Lark, a rip-roaring blend of James Bond and Sharpe, an heroic outsider who ...Read Review

The Praetorian and the Emperor’s List

By Rod Warren - Published 2013

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Adventure Military

Rod Warren’s exhaustively-researched and immensely readable debut novel, The Praetorian and the Emperor’s List, centers on two boys living in provincial ...Read Review

The Lone Warrior

By Paul Fraser Collard - Published 2015

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Adventure Military

Bombay, 1857. Jack Lark, honourably discharged from the British Army, helps a young woman, Amira, to escape from a gaming house. He promises to ...Read Review

The Time of the Clockmaker (Seventh Miss Hatfield 2)

By Anna Caltabiano - Published 2015 Published 2015-08-27

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Adventure Historical Fantasy

After being abducted, turned into an immortal adult overnight, and sent back and forth in time at the behest of her inscrutable mentor, ...Read Review