HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)

Highland Heart: Love in the Time of War

By Jacqueline Seewald - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

In this near-the-Highlands romance, set in 1746, young Frenchwoman Madeleine de Marnay is a 17-year-old who falls inexplicably in love with 28-year-old Colonel Gareth ...Read Review

The Runes of Destiny

By Christina Courtenay - Published 2020

Genres:

Time-slip

The Runes of Destiny is the follow-up to Christina Courtenay’s magical Echoes of the Runes. Although the books share a location and ...Read Review

Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It

By Andrea Davis Pinkney - By Brian Pinkney (illus.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This marvelous creation is more than a novel. It is a “page-to-stage” narrative, magicked out of family stories and American history and narrated ...Read Review

The Company Daughters

By Samantha Rajaram - Published 2020

Genres:

This radiant debut novel is perfect for fans of The Miniaturist and Girl with a Pearl Earring. Two young women of 1620s Amsterdam, ...Read Review

We All Fall Down

By David Blixt - By Deborah Swift - By J. K. Knauss - By Jean Gill - By Katherine Pym - By Kristin Gleeson - By Laura Morelli - By Lisa J. Yarde - By Melodie Winawer - Published 2020

Genres:

Short Stories

In these pandemic times, readers of historical fiction will find deep resonance with stories of the Black Death and other pandemics. In this ...Read Review

Tita’s Diary (Like Water for Chocolate)

By Laura Esquivel - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Have you ever wondered how the story of Cinderella might have turned out, had the prince married one of Cinderella’s sisters? Tita’...Read Review

Draxinger (The Draxinger Series Book 1)

By Noble Smith - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

It’s not often one can describe a book about World War I as “fun,” but Draxinger—even though it contains some horrific ...Read Review

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie

By Marie Benedict - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In December 1926, famed author Agatha Christie went missing. For eleven days, police, the public, and two of the UK’s most famous mystery ...Read Review

A Bend In The River

By Libby Fischer Hellmann - Published 2020

Genres:

Tâm and Mai Trang are sisters, aged seventeen and fourteen, living with their family in Vietnam. In March 1968, the sisters are washing ...Read Review

The Dark Sunrise (A Sheriff Aaron Mackey Western)

By Terrence McCauley - Published 2020

Genres:

Western

In late summer 1889, Montana Territory US Marshal Aaron Mackey has finally captured the homicidal and corrupt mayor of Dover Station, James Grant. But ...Read Review