Independently published
Songbird
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Private detective Jax Diamond has been trailing composer and playwright Sam Sanders to provide evidence for Sam’s wife that he’s been ...Read Review
Hearts at Dawn
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Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyRomance
Every night since his twelfth birthday, aristocrat Orin Rush transforms into a beast. He doesn’t know why he’s cursed, but nightly ...Read Review
Norman Lord, Saxon Lady
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In late summer 1067, Saxon earl’s daughter Edra meets the forbidding Norman knight Alain de Chalus, who has been granted her father’s ...Read Review
Ernestine
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The world of 16th-century Spain is a place where the Inquisition holds sway and autos-da-fé (the public burning of heretics) happen rather often. ...Read Review
The Dead Are Resting
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In The Dead Are Resting, the secrets that Becky Weiss’s parents keep from her are both revelational and disturbing. Becky grows up ...Read Review
The King’s Captain
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This is a very slim novella (barely 40,000 words), the second (after The King’s Spy, reviewed in HNR 96) in the “rebellion” series of ...Read Review
Beneath the Bonnie Blue Flag: A Novel from the de Melilla Chronicles
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There are instances when an author’s impressive knowledge about a period is more of a hindrance than a help. Instead of concentrating ...Read Review
Redemption
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Guilt and vengeance prevent Captain Francis Hacker from finding solace from God after his daughters’ murders. As the second year of civil war ...Read Review
Starlight in the Dawn
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The city of Ur, about 2300 BCE: Sargon the Great rules the Akkadian Empire, and his daughter Enheduanna is the high priestess of Ur. ...Read Review
Absaroka War Chief
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James Beckwourth’s name was in the news in 2021, when a wildfire sprang up near the California town named for him. I hadn’...Read Review