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HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)

The Lady in the Moneylender’s Parlour (Allen Abbey Romances Book 2)

By Rosanne E. Lortz - Published 2023

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After losing a hand at Waterloo and selling out from the cavalry, Captain William Allen’s life spirals downward, but in the moneylender’...Read Review

The Low Road

By Katharine Quarmby - Published 2023

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Norfolk, 1813: Hannah, a small child, witnesses her mother’s burial, staked through the heart as a suicide, following arrest for the apparent infanticide ...Read Review

Life and Other Love Songs

By Anissa Gray - Published 2023

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When Oz Armstead disappears on his 37th birthday, in the early 1980s, family secrets come to light that impact his close family members. ...Read Review

The Metropolitan Affair (On Central Park)

By Jocelyn Green - Published 2023

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Inspirational Romance Mystery/Crime

Thirty-two-year-old Lauren Westlake has advanced far in a man’s world. She has risen to expert curator of Egyptian antiquities at NYC’s ...Read Review

Tangled Spirits

By Kate Shanahan - Published 2022

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Historical Fantasy Time-slip

During her study abroad, college student Mina is meditating in a remote area of the Tsukuba mountains when her spirit is pulled back ...Read Review

Pony Boys (Curse of the Niobrara Trilogy, 1)

By Richard Prosch - Published 2022

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Western

An alias can be a criminal’s best friend. At least that’s the thinking of teenaged John Augustus (Gus) and his testosterone-pumped ...Read Review

The Final Days of Doggerland: A Neolithic Story of Survival in Northern Europe

By Mike Meier - Published 2022

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Originally an award-winning screenplay, The Final Days of Doggerland is about the Neolithic migration of the Yamnaya people. Doggerland was an area that ...Read Review

An American Beauty

By Shana Abe - Published 2023

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Biographical Fiction

An American Beauty is a rags-to-riches story based on the life of Arabella Yarrington Huntington, a Gilded Age beauty who was one of ...Read Review

Pursuing a Masterpiece

By Sandra Vasoli - Published 2022

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Zara Rossi, a graduate student in paleography at La Sapienza Università di Roma, is researching her doctoral thesis on Pope Clement VII’s ...Read Review