Gilded Age
If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love
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Death in childbirth used to be horribly common, even up to modern times. In the historical example that inspired this romantic novel, it ...Read Review
Hearts of Steel (The Blackstone Legacy)
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With her third in the Blackstone Legacy series, Elizabeth Camden brings the handsome and highly competent steel magnate Liam Blackstone to Gilded Age ...Read Review
Drawing Outside the Lines: A Julia Morgan Novel
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The opening of the magnificent Brooklyn Bridge in May 1883 meant more to eleven-year-old Julia Morgan than to anyone else in her family—although ...Read Review
Hardland: A Novel
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Countering the notion that a Western is usually a genre book for relaxed reading, Hardland portrays the reality of working women in Arizona ...Read Review
The Nurse’s Secret: A Thrilling Historical Novel of the Dark Side of Gilded Age New York City
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Today, we expect and rely on nurses to be competent, trained professionals. And yet, it wasn’t always so. Prior to the late 19...Read Review
Fire Season
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In 1889 Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, bored banker Barton Heydale plans to kill himself. But when he goes home to do the deed, a ...Read Review
Murder at Beacon Rock (A Gilded Newport Mystery)
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Emma Cross stars as the protagonist of Murder at Beacon Rock, set in 1900 Newport, Rhode Island. She works as a journalist for the ...Read Review
Haymaker in Heaven
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Translated from Norwegian, this book takes a compassionate look at the large number of people who were driven by economic conditions to emigrate ...Read Review
The Red Widow
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Professor Sarah Horowitz’s fluid, story-like biography of colorful femme fatal Marguerite “Meg” Steinheil makes this Belle Époque hostess accessible through her thorough ...Read Review
Treachery on Tenth Street (A Gilded Gotham Mystery)
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New York City, 1889: Genevieve Stewart, a high society lady who’s become an investigative journalist, is spending the summer in the heat and ...Read Review