HNR Issue 55 (February 2011)
The Pirate’s Bastard
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This short mid-18th century novel is awash in seafaring legal and piratical, secrets, courtship, blackmail and colonial history of North Carolina and ...Read Review
Death and the Running Patterer
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Nicodemus Dunne, formerly a Bow Street Runner, or policeman, is now a good-behavior convict in Sydney, Australia, making his living as a running ...Read Review
The Wedding Shroud: A Tale of Early Rome
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Born of a patrician mother and a wealthy plebeian father, Caecilia is no ordinary Roman citizen, but a product of two conflicting worlds. ...Read Review
The Valcourt Heiress
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England, 1278: Marianna de Luce de Mornay is running away from her mother — a real witch — and an unwelcome suitor. She meets the stalwart ...Read Review
The Amorous Nightingale
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In this, the second outing for Christopher Redmayne and Jonathon Bale, the architect and the constable are tasked by Charles II to locate ...Read Review
Dakota, Or What’s a Heaven For
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This dense, splendid novel, set in the Dakota Territory in the 1870s and ’80s, rests on the shoulders of two extraordinary women. Frances, ...Read Review
Major Lord David
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Napoleon is exiled to Elba, which means Major Lord David Trent, second son of the Duke of Braughton, can return to England. But ...Read Review
More Than Words
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The second volume of Daughters of Amana is set in 1885. Gretchen Kohler’s family is assigned to run an Amana Colony town’s ...Read Review
While We’re Far Apart
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Austin has once again penned a delightful, heartwarming, yet wrenching story about World War II and the life-altering effects war causes. In 1943 New ...Read Review
Set the Night on Fire
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Lila Hilliard is devastated when a suspicious accident kills her father and her brother. What she doesn’t expect is that the person ...Read Review