2008
Delicious
A late 19th-century tale involving identity and the expectations of social class, Delicious is the story of Verity Durant, possibly…
Your Scandalous Ways
After her bitter and high-profile society divorce, Francesca Bonnard took revenge on her husband by making herself the most notorious…
Two Men
Originally published in 1865, Two Men begins when Jason Auster, a carpenter, leaves home to start a new life. His…
My Lord and Spymaster
Editors' choice
In her quest to expose the spy known as Cinq and secure her father’s release from prison, Jessamyn Whitby relies…
My Heart Remembers
An orphan train carries three Irish children from their tenement life in New York City to Missouri in 1886. Before…
The Sun’s Bride
The Eastern Mediterranean, 246 BC. The Rhodian warship Atalanta and her naked crew (that got your attention) come across and…
Cézanne’s Quarry
Editors' choice
The city of Aix-en-Provence in southern France recently celebrated the centennial of the death of Paul Cézanne, an artist often…
The James Boys
The premise is that outlaws Jesse and Frank James were actually Rob and Wilky, black sheep younger brothers of intellectuals…
Web of Destiny
These first two volumes in the Kane Legacy series follow youngest son Alan Kane as he emigrates from 1834 Boston…
Sister’s Choice
It’s 1882, and Maggie Newcomb, just turned eighteen, is determined to win handsome Colby Stoddard for her husband—if, that is,…
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