Ilysa Magnus
After Rome
The Romans have left Britannia. What remains on the island are disparate fragments of Roman British settlements and cities, roaming…
Quarantine
Set in 1796 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a young man comes of age during an age of pestilence, loss and grief.…
The Malice of Fortune
Editors' choice
In the midst of an upsurge in interest in the Borgias, Ennis’s new historical thriller is, at the very least,…
The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon’s Court
After Napoleon jettisons his only true love, the Empress Josephine, who has not given him an heir, he makes a…
Nazi Princess: Hitler, Lord Rothermere, and Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe
Who knew? Once called by President Roosevelt “more dangerous than 10,000 men,” a part-Jewish Austrian princess – well-known seductress and…
The Seventh Gate
Editors' choice
Sophie Riedesel is a young Christian German girl growing up in Berlin in the 1930s. Her father is a Communist…
The Technologists
As the first class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – a ragtag amalgam of “charity” students and Harvard wannabes…
Queen without a Crown: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery
In this ninth installment in the series, Ursula, now happily remarried and living a quiet existence as Elizabeth’s lady-in-waiting, seeks…
Kafka’s Leopards
1916: In a shtetl in Bessarabia, Czarist Russia, lives Benjamin Kantarovich, 19, nicknamed “Mousy,” whose sick friend, Yossi, asks him…
The Sister Queens
Marguerite and Eleanor are sisters, Savoyards living in the 13th century. Each young Provençal girl is married off to a…
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