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At the Mercy of the Queen

By Anne Clinard Barnhill - Published 2012

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Margaret “Madge” Shelton of Norfolk, Anne Boleyn’s pretty 14-year-old cousin, becomes lady-in-waiting to the new queen, accompanied to court by her nurse ...Read Review

The Virtuoso

By Grace Burrowes - Published 2011

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Romance

The latest in the author’s connected series of Regency historical romances offers a credible romance between a pair of likeable but damaged ...Read Review

Deliverance From Evil

By Frances Hill - Published 2011

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The witch hysteria in Salem Village is familiar territory for fiction, but Frances Hill informs her novel with her own historical scholarship on ...Read Review

My Love, My Enemy

By Jan Cox Speas - Published 2011

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Romance

This fresh edition of the classic romantic historical novel set during the War of 1812 combines the wit and tenderness of Georgette Heyer with ...Read Review

The Darling Strumpet

By Gillian Bagwell - Published 2011

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Biographical Fiction

First-time author Bagwell’s presentation of a familiar and popular Restoration-era character brings to life the players, wits, wenches, and mistresses who populated ...Read Review

The Queen’s Captive

By Barbara Kyle - Published 2011

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Romance Saga

The third installment of the Thornleigh Saga depicts the many conflicts of Mary Tudor’s reign, illustrated by family ambition as well as ...Read Review

The Rhetoric of Death

By Judith Rock - Published 2010

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Mystery/Crime

Rock’s impressive debut takes place in a Paris monastery school in 1686, one with close connections to the court of Louis XIV and ...Read Review

Within the Hollow Crown

By Margaret Campbell Barnes - Published 2010

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Biographical Fiction

One benefit of a strong market for fact-based historical fiction is the republication of the works of the finest authors of years past, ...Read Review

Eye of the Raven

By Eliot Pattison - Published 2010

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Mystery/Crime

In the second installment of his colonial mystery series, Edgar Award winner Pattison provides an absorbing tale firmly and effectively grounded in the ...Read Review

The Ninth Daughter

By Barbara Hamilton - Published 2009

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Mystery/Crime

This first novel of a new mystery series begins with Boston housewife Abigail Adams visiting Rebecca Malvern, only to discover some unknown woman’...Read Review

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