HNR Issue 51 (February 2010)
Swords from the Desert
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Collected in Swords from the Desert are seven exciting stories set during the crusades and in 17th-century India and the Middle East, featuring ...Read Review
The Betrayal
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As the novel begins we are straight away in the world of Elizabethan London as Lucy waits with her two young charges, Beth ...Read Review
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
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The saga of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, began in 1877 when he was just 17 and killed a man in a ...Read Review
Rich Girl, Poor Girl
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This saga is set in 1860 and follows the lives of two young women who both experience the same tragedy on the same day – ...Read Review
The Spies of Sobeck
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Pharaoh Hatshepsut, or Hatusu as she is called in this novel, is facing the toppling of her throne in Egypt of 1477 BC. A ...Read Review
The Whaler’s Forge
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Over a century before Columbus“discovered” the New World, Basque whalers were already hunting whales and setting up whaling camps in what are ...Read Review
An Ill Wind
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It is always awkward when you start reading a series several books in, and it took me some time to work out what ...Read Review
Captive of Sin
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On a cold February night in 1821, Sir Gideon Trevithick finds an exhausted, ragged, dirty girl hiding in his horse’s stall at an ...Read Review
That Certain Spark
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In 1892, twins Enoch and Taylor Bestman arrive in Gooding, Texas with signed contracts to serve as local veterinarian and medical doctor. The twins ...Read Review
The Carousel Painter
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Orphaned artist Carrington (Carrie) Brouwer intends to find a job and live independently, something “not done” in 1890 small-town Ohio society. Arriving on the ...Read Review