HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)
Troy: Shield of Thunder
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Plain-faced Helen sits behind the walls of Troy, married to Paris but never to Menelaus; Andromache loves another but is betrothed to Hektor, ...Read Review
The Maid of Lorne
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“Wed or dead by nightfall.” That’s the choice Sebastien of Cleish gives Lara of the MacDougalls, besieged in Dunstaffnage Castle in 1308. Sebastien ...Read Review
The Seeds of Sin
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After the death of Cromwell and the restoration of Charles Stuart to the throne of England, Sir Rupert Saunders returns from exile at ...Read Review
Command
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It is the late 18th century, and Britain is at war with the French. At the start of the novel, Thomas Kydd is ...Read Review
Redemption
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Widower Jake McPherson takes no prisoners with his temper as he sits in his wheelchair, closed off from the world while his nine-year-old ...Read Review
An Affair of Honor
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In this fifth novel in the award-winning Honor Series, Lieutenant Peter Wake is the executive officer on board the U.S.S. Omaha. ...Read Review
The Witchery
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In the final book in James Reese’s Herculine trilogy, the title character roams the Florida territories, the Keys and Havana, using her ...Read Review
Cotton Song
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Cotton Song opens with social worker Baby Allen bumping her Model T down a dry and dusty 1940s Mississippi road on her way ...Read Review
My Mother’s Lovers
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In a recent talk at the University of East Anglia, Christopher Hope described Africa as “a great comic opera” which “out-imagines writers”. My ...Read Review
Under the Northern Lights
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In this second book of the Alaskan Quest series, Leah Kincaid is kidnapped by her husband’s identical twin brother, Chase, who carries ...Read Review