Kristen McDermott
The Homecoming
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This latest novel from the bestselling Dutch author is a long, lyrical meditation on mourning and identity. Elizabeth Batts Cook is the wife ...Read Review
Until the Last of Me (Take Them to the Stars, 2)
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This is the second volume of a trilogy, “Take Them to the Stars,” with a fascinating premise: all of the scientific discoveries in ...Read Review
Lessons in Chemistry
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Garmus tells a familiar story in a completely original voice in her delightful debut novel. Billed as a cross between The Marvelous Mrs. ...Read Review
Learwife
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This challenging novel will invite comparisons to Lauren Groff’s Matrix. Like that novel, this one’s protagonist is an aristocratic woman forced ...Read Review
Yonder
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One horror of American slavery was that its victims were valuable to their captors. Their high price and necessary labor resulted in strenuous ...Read Review
Dear Miss Cushman
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An award-winning author of numerous novels about lesbian lives and histories, Martinac offers an absorbing, energetic adventure starring the passionate Georgiana Cartwright, a ...Read Review
The Good Wife of Bath
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Brooks offers another adventure-crammed frolic through the London of an earlier era in this prequel to her bestselling The Brewer’s Tale/The ...Read Review
My Fine Fellow
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My Fair Lady meets Master Chef in this surprisingly entertaining confection. Set in an alternate Georgian England, in which George IV’s daughter ...Read Review
Under a Starlit Sky (In the Shadow of the Sun, 2)
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Castellan concludes her In the Shadow of the Sun duology, set in a fantasy-alternative version of the French Court of Louis XIV. Geared ...Read Review
The Wicked Widow (The Wicked City series, 3)
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Williams continues her thoroughly enjoyable historical-romance-thriller Wicked City series about Geneva “Gin” Kelly, a feisty, foul-mouthed Appalachian transplant to flapper-era New York. The ...Read Review