HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)
The Road to Avalon
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First published in 1988, The Road to Avalon has been reissued with a foreword by Mary Jo Putney. Set in a post-Roman world, this ...Read Review
Saint Thomas’s Eve
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Plaidy’s sixth novel in her Tudor series is a compelling reconstruction of the life of Sir Thomas More. The novel commences with ...Read Review
A Poisoned Season
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Garden parties, jewel thefts, romance, and murder—Lady Emily Ashton takes the 1889 London season in her stride. Young, lovely, and newly widowed, Emily ...Read Review
Her Only Desire
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In 1817, Ian Prescott, Marquess of Griffith, arrives in India on a peace mission from the British government. Before he reaches the coach sent ...Read Review
The Notorious Mrs. Winston
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Trapped in a loveless marriage by a husband who treats her as an art object rather than a wife, Claire Winston is ripe ...Read Review
The Scar of David
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Amal is only a child in the 1967 war that made refugees of thousands of Palestinians. But her story begins long before she was ...Read Review
Black Hats: A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone
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Let me start by saying I’m not a huge fan of anything western. So I knew I was taking a chance on ...Read Review
The Secret
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Little touches of pure magic redeem this complex, end of World War Two family saga. The intertwining of characters’ aims and shared sufferings ...Read Review
Secret Agent Girl
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Bebe Bennett, 1960s executive secretary extraordinaire, follows her boss and secret crush Bradley Williams to his third job in as many books, corporate ...Read Review
The River Wife
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Jacques’ Landing, Missouri, on the shore of the Mississippi River, is a place where life is lived hard, and for some of its ...Read Review