2017
The City of Lies
Set in Ireland in 1940, the fourth book of the Stefan Gillespie series finds him embroiled in the search for…
Shadow of the Tiger: A Story of India
The parallel lives of two very different women—Gwendolen, the white wife of a British consul, and Kuljit, an Indian maid—are…
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
This non-fiction book reads more vividly than many novels. The husband hunters might appear to be wealthy American young women…
We Shall Not All Sleep
Off the coast of the main in Estep Nagy’s debut novel lies Seven Island. The Hillsinger and the Quick families…
The Gallows Pole
Editors' choice
George III notwithstanding, there’s only one king in West Yorkshire: “King” David Hartley, leader of a local gang of “coiners.”…
Shield of Kronos
1196 AD, England. Garrett de Moray is Captain of the Royal Guard for King Richard. Lady Lyssa du Bose is…
His Majesty’s Theatre: Not from the Stars (Book 1); But From Thine Eyes (Book 2); Truth and Beauty (Book 3); Beauty’s Doom (Book 4)
1903-1904. This series of four novellas follows the fortunes of young Ellie Roundtree from her unhappy childhood in the home…
The Red Ribbon
Set during the Holocaust, the book begins with Ellie, a teenager going for a job as a pattern cutter in…
Fire in the Year of Four Emperors
This riveting novel is set in 1st-century Rome following Nero’s rule. Galba, the governor of Spain, declares himself emperor. Four…
The Lie Tree
1860s England, and Faith is the teenage daughter of an unsatisfactory marriage between a clergyman-naturalist father she adores and a…
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